John GAGE USA Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Graduate School of Business Doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley Chief Researcher & Director of the Science Office Sun Microsystems “As we enter the millennium of networked symbolic machines, we are creating new notations – condensed symbolic thought – combining the power of persistence with the fertility of interplay and exchange. An interactive symbiosis between man and machine becomes possible, allowing a new palette of creative forms to emerge.” John GAGE Introductionby Gottlieb GUNTERN John Gage left the University of California at Berkeley in 1982 to join Bill Joy at Sun Microsystems. Sun is now a ten-billion dollar company leading the world in scientific workstations, servers, and supercomputers. As Sun's Chief Researcher, Gage is responsible for Sun's relationship with world scientific and technical organisations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy, as well as for alliances with the world's leading research institutions and laboratories. In 1995 Gage created NetDay, a volunteer project to bring the resources of world high-technology companies to all schools and libraries so as to connect them to the Internet. He is the host of a worldwide satellite television programme, Sunergy, that explores the frontiers of computing, networking, science and mathematics. Sunergy broadcasts quarterly from different countries, focussing on worldwide developments that most affect the global scientific and technical enterprise. Gage has been a member of scientific advisory panels for the US National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the Technical Advisory Panel of France, and the Multimedia Super Corridor project of Malaysia. 1 .