From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 16:21:48 MST
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Subject: RE: Brin 'cast truncated.
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:53:38 -0500
From: "Hughes, James" <James.Hughes@trincoll.edu>
To: "'Michael M. Butler'" <butler@comp-lib.org>
> I was looking forward to hearing all 31 minutes of your
> recent interview
> with David Brin.
Oops. I just uploaded it again.
> Can I
> actually get (say) the straight MP3? You have my word I won't
> redistribute it.
Please redistribute it. That's why I record it. But it is 7MB which
might
blow your email buffer.
You can FTP it directly from the streamer at:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=2408
Thanks for listening, and for letting me know about these problems. Let
me
know what you think.
If you interesting in future shows you can subscribe to my weekly
epistle at
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Dr. J. Hughes
Changesurfer Radio
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CHANGESURFER NEWS December 23, 2000
A weekly epistle from Dr. J., producer of Changesurfer Radio,
[http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/]
about upcoming shows, and alerts to News of the Future of
"democratic transhumanist/left futurist" interest.
HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE! Take your Prozac.
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THIS WEEK Saturday 12/23/2000 5:30-6pm
The Future of Death
Re-broadcast of speech given by Dr. J. Hughes at the 2000 Alcor
Conference
on Life Extension Technologies.
NEXT Saturday 12/30/2000 5:30-6pm
David Brin: Writing for the Future
Interview with David Brin, author of many SF novels, including Earth and
the Uplift series, and of The Tranparent Society which argues that
absolute
privacy may not be desirable. Co-founder of Reading for the Future.
You can listen online to both interviews now from
http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/shows/2000.html
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Previously aired shows are available in streaming MP3 from the website
at:
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WHUS also streams in real-time. Listen through the link at
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TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR!
Review my list of potential future guests at:
http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/future.html
and email me about which ones you'd like to hear.
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NEWS OF THE FUTURE
Changesurfer Radio has been picked up by WPAH, a web-radio station
broadcastibng from Pahrump, Nevada.
http://www.pahrumpradio.com
COOL TECHNOLOGY
"The Internet will produce significant cost savings in...the economy,
resulting in faster productivity growth...e lower prices for
consumers...
faster growth in living standards... savings in time, added convenience,
and products and services tailored specifically to them." The Economy
and
the Internet: What Lies Ahead? Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/comm/conferencereport/cr4/cr4.htm
Profile of cryonics founder Robert Ettinger
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw25010_20001215.htm
UConn discovers gene switch that doubles fruit fly lifespan
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/science/15AGIN.html
UK's Labour Parliament votes to support scientific and medical research
using stem cells derived from human cloning
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-53953,00.html
PESKY TECHNOLOGIES
Cloned germ-resistant cattle an answer to the spread of food-borne
pathogens, and the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/001218/18/bull-clone
U.S. 1.4 degrees F warmer this year than usual
http://news.excite.com/news/r/001218/16/science-weather-year-dc
PESKY LUDDITE RESPONSES TO PESKY TECHNOLOGIES
Scientific American discusses the new precautionary principle: "When an
activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment,
precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect
relationships are not fully established scientifically."
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0101issue/0101scicit1.html
A group of Greek Orthodox monks, Eleftheri or "the free," are working on
another music video for an upcoming single about the dangers of
technology
without restrictions. Their last single went to the top of the charts.
http://www.salon.com/people/wire/2000/12/21/monks/index.html
Reason writer Ron Bailey argues that if anti-biotech activists win their
war against genetically modified food, it's the world's poor who will
suffer the most.
http://reason.com/0101/fe.rb.dr.html
Reason writer Ron Bailey contemplates artists reactions to
biotechnology.
http://www.reason.com/0012/cr.rb.pink.html
PESKY DEMOCRACY
Supreme Court to democracy: Drop dead
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/14/bush/index.html
"Let's Grant Amnesty to Ralph Nader" by Robert Kuttner in American
Prospect
http://www.prospect.org/columns/kuttner/2000/kuttner-r001204.html
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INTERESTING LINKS
"Nostradamus Predicted Recount Would Fail" "Will World War III Start
Before
Easter?"
- Convinced that the world is again a safe and comforting place now that
George Bush has appointed alleged blacks, Hispanics and women to his
Cabinet? Think again at this website for apocalyptically-minded. They
think
the world is coming to an end soon, but they endorsed Bush because he
was
for a storng military - go figure.
http://www.yowusa.com/
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The very concept of "belonging" to a particular state will probably
erode.
In one of its most sweeping conclusions, the report says governments
will
have less and less control over flows of information,
technology, diseases, migrants, arms and financial transactions, whether
legal or illegal, across their borders.
'States with ineffective and incompetent governance not only will fail
to
benefit from globalization, but in some instances will spawn conflicts
at
home and abroad, ensuring an even wider gap between regional winners and
losers that exists today...Globalization will not lift all boats.'"
The New York Times summarizing and quoting a 70-page report written by
the
National Intelligence Council, a thinktank that advises the CIA
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/18/world/18THRE.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/globaltrends2015/index.html
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