"Welcome to the Future" - In Memory of Firesign Theater's Peter Bergman http://j.mp/yMWgP4 (This message on Google+)
- - - Sad word comes of the death of Peter Bergman at 72, due to complications of leukemia. Peter was perhaps best known for his continuing role in (and co-founding of) L.A.'s legendary "Firesign Theater" troupe and their even more legendary "comedy" albums. I quote the word "comedy" since calling their amazing performance art "comedy" is like calling a hydrogen bomb an "explosive" -- and all done with editing blocks and splicing tape in the early days, not a digital file to be seen. One of Firesign's albums -- 1971's "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus" -- is of particular note to techies. Various sequences in this gem can be interpreted as foreshadowing issues that we would later relate to computer voice input and output systems, expert systems, voicemail idiosyncrasies -- even search engine results run amok. And if you're old enough to have ever worked on DEC PDP-10 systems, there are other surprises contained therein. So in memory of Peter, enjoy it for yourself now as I originally did decades ago: "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus": http://j.mp/A81eNS (YouTube) Peace, Peter. And thanks. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
