From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Tue Aug 10 1999 - 11:37:06 MDT
My comments on Extro4:
- I liked the location. I also like hotels, but if we
can attract speakers and have more attendees by doing it
at a college I'm all for it. Theater facilities were
good.
- I preferred the more eclectic mix of topics of Extro3
rather than the focussed approach of this one.
- The gene patents session should have been a real debate.
Just because you couldn't find a Rifkinite doesn't mean
you had no one to argue the opposing side--many of us
would have been happy to do that. Indeed, I think an
Extro ought to have at least one good debate on some topic
of real controversy among Extropians; it keeps us from
stagnating philosophically.
- A more detailed program would be nice. Names/URLs for
the speakers and related resources, more details about
the sessions, etc. Would also be an opportunity to
exhibit artworks (drawings/writings).
- You're missing a great capitalist opportunity by not
having more merchandising. Extro3, for example, had a
lot more book sales--why none this time? Natasha is
right that arts get something of a short shrift among
technical folks: so stop talking about it and put some
more of it in our faces. Give us the opportunity to see
it and touch it and buy it.
- The short open-mikes worked well. Perhaps a longer
session of those would be interesting.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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