John Markoff writes about Steve Jobs and LSD (by way of Alex Soojung-Kim Pang). And, plowing through the interesting but uneven book on Herman Kahn, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War, one finds that “SuperKahn” took LSD on several occasions.
What is it with technology visionaries and drugs? Perhaps one should not be surprised, given that LSD seems to have emerged from the same university-technoscientific complex well endowed with Cold War cash that was a factor in the birth of both RAND and the computer revolution.
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