Brian Eno and Kevin Kelly are old acquaintances from the 1990s. David
Brin was on SF's Talke 910 the other day with Gil Gross. He had some
very interesting things to say. Too bad the don't podcasts more openly
available but you can probably get their Romney broadcastings iHeart app
and find it.
Books? How about TV series such as "Firefly"? There's quite a
statement there by Whedon, maybe summed up by the opening scene in
Serenity, the movie follow-up to the series.
http://youtu.be/g-alzyvTtVE
To bad that UK series "Utopia" wasn't played in the US though if it
played now it would make people more suspicious than ever of the
government pushing vaccines. ;-)
On 02/20/2015 09:09 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/This is a fabulous thought experiment that is a spinoff of the Long
Now project -- if you were creating a library of books with which to
rebuild the world, which books would you include? Which would you
purposefully exclude as being counterproductive to rebuilding a
civilization worth living in?
The list of contributors so far include such thinkers, futurists, and
scifi writers as Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Neal Stephenson, Violet
Blue, Kevin Kelly, Megan and Rick Prelinger, Bruce Sterling, David
Brin, Daniel Saurez, Maria Popova, and Mark Praline.
/*
*/So far (I haven't scanned all of the lists carefully), the only work
of religion seems to come from Stewart Brand -- Lao Tzu’s Te-Tao Ching
– A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-wang-tui Texts
by Lao Tzu and translated by Robert G. Henricks./*
*/
/*
*/Good. I can't help but think that future civilizations would be
better off without all those other "religious" books that have brought
so much tragedy to past (and present) civilizations.
/*
*/
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