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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. I first met Ed in 1982—on an island in the Caribbean he had bought with money from taking public a tech company he’d founded. A long and colorful story.