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foster the growth of the field with an annual series of conferences and sum-
mer schools. Organized by Wolfram's group, these parallel the Santa Fe In-
stitute in existing outside the usual academic circuits, and one can again see
them as an attempt to stabilize a novel social base for a novel kind of science.
Nine of the eleven people listed as faculty for the 2005 NKS summer school
worked for, or had worked for, Wolfram Research, including Wolfram him-
self, and the website for the school mentions that, in the past, “some of our
most talented attendees have been offered positions at Wolfram Research.”
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Wolfram also imagines a permanent NKS research institute, supported, per-
haps, by software companies, including his own (personal communication).
Bios, the SFI, NKS: a nascent social formation for the latter-day counterparts
of cybernetics begins to appear here beyond the frame of the usual instititu-
tions of learning—a parallel world, a social as well as ontological—a socio-
ontological—sketch of another future.
