Kevin Kelly tells Jim Fleming that the sum total of our technology - what he calls “the technicum” - is taking on the properties of life itself.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
Mark Kurlansky, author of “1968: The Year That Rocked the World” talks about why that year was so significant.
Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.
Peter Kornbluh, directs the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project. He’s just published “The Pinochet File,” which uses recently declassified documents to prove that there was American involvement at the highest levels of government in the efforts to foment chaos in Chile.
Richard Sennett makes the case that our definition of craft should be expanded to include any job a person commits to executing to the best of their abilities.
Jonathan Margolis talks with Jim Fleming about some of the innovations futurologists are predicting for us all, from ear stud cell phones to on-line vacations and cybersex.
We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.
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