2024-12-12
2 小时 36 分钟Hello boys and girls, ladies and germs, this is Tim Ferriss.
Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show where it's my job to deconstruct world class performers from all different fields.
They could be in military entertainment, sports or otherwise.
And my guest today fits the otherwise category.
I have wanted to have Danny Hillis on the show for many years now, probably four or five years.
And he came up with my friend Kevin Kelly.
And I was with Kevin on two pilgrimage tours.
It's a long story, but we were walking and talking for long periods of time on different continents and I asked him in both cases, who would you suggest as a podcast guest I must interview?
And we landed on Danny Hillis.
So why, why Danny Hillis?
Danny Hillis is an inventor, scientist, author and engineer.
While completing his doctorate at mit, he pioneered the parallel computers that are the basis for the processors used for a and most high performance computer chips.
He did that while completing his doctor the significance of that we'll come back to, so we will cover that.
He has more than 400 issued patents covering parallel computers, disk arrays, cancer diagnostics and treatment, various electronic, optical and mechanical devices, and the Pinch to Zoom display interface.
You know when you zoom in or zoom out on a map or something like that?
Yeah, or on anything really.
On an iPhone?
Yeah, that thing.
He is a co founder of the Long now foundation and the designer of its 10,000 year mechanical clock which sits inside a mountain in West Texas and has been funded by Jeff Bezos.
We'll talk about that a little bit.