Audio of Cory Doctorow's SFU Lecture Available at Archive.org
By Richard Eriksson on March 9, 2007 - 11:09am
Ianiv of Blogaholics.ca has posted audio of last night's lecture entitled " The Totalitarian Urge: total information awareness and the cosmic billiards" to archive.org. I couldn't attend, as I was under the weather, and he's also going to lecture today at 3:30 in room C9001 on SFU's Burnaby Campus (which I also won't be able to make). Dave Olson has photos of Cory speaking and a photo of Darren Barefoot's notes. See also Darren's recap of the lecture. Jean also has some photos of the lecture, and I'll be watching a Technorati search for what others have to say about an event apparently well attended by Vancouver's blogosphere.
- Jon Husband has a summary and ties the lecture to "organization and governance stemming from being wired and interconnected in pervasive ways in the course of many basic human activities."
- Dave O has a link to Ianiv's coverage on NowPublic
- David Drucker was impressed with "a speaker [who] is equal parts challenging and well informed, playful and scholarly, rueful and insightful."
- Greg had lunch with the guy.
- Darren Gibbons has a photo and a recap of the Burnaby campus lecture
- Ecoshock has audio of the Burnaby campus lecture, which they describe as "76 minutes on the cutting edge, where freedom faces the specter of technical totalitarianism."
Thank You, Richard, for providing us with this link.
I've just listened to the lecture, and it's very interesting.
I highly recommend it to everyone. This lecture exposes many of
us to aspects of the Information Highway that we've either not
noticed before, or weren't aware of, and some of the implications
are rather frightening. I was especially interested in what he
had to say about Windows Vista and how it has been designed
from the ground up to do certain things. The more I learn about
Vista, the better I like this XP Pro.