Back from Harvard
Lots of policy-writing, meeting people, and general awesomeness. Indeed.
For instance, I met this chap Evan Greer while in Cambridge, one of Nelson's friends. Evan's an anarchofolk musician--you can check out his (totally awesome) music at his website. Evan was playing at an anti-war event at the Harvard Social Forum. We showed up too late to see him play, but we talked with him a good bit about grassroots political movement and the music industry and post-oil America and all sorts of interesting things. One of the coolest conversations I've ever had.
Or this guy Dustin from Harvard Free Culture, talking about his plans for a project to pressure corporations like Microsoft and Yahoo to stop colluding with the Chinese government and supporting the Great Firewall of China (by censoring Chinese bloggers, acting as informants, etc.) in the hopes of winning access to a billion-person market. He also discussed his idea of the "singularity" where virtually everything is recorded and all that information is made immediately available to the brain through bionic implants. What would happen? Zen? Insanity? How would we tell the difference between the two?
But yeah. It was a pretty amazing four or so days.
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Dear Carolyn,
We should talk. Be online sometime.
Love, Karen
For instance, I met this chap Evan Greer while in Cambridge, one of Nelson's friends. Evan's an anarchofolk musician--you can check out his (totally awesome) music at his website. Evan was playing at an anti-war event at the Harvard Social Forum. We showed up too late to see him play, but we talked with him a good bit about grassroots political movement and the music industry and post-oil America and all sorts of interesting things. One of the coolest conversations I've ever had.
Or this guy Dustin from Harvard Free Culture, talking about his plans for a project to pressure corporations like Microsoft and Yahoo to stop colluding with the Chinese government and supporting the Great Firewall of China (by censoring Chinese bloggers, acting as informants, etc.) in the hopes of winning access to a billion-person market. He also discussed his idea of the "singularity" where virtually everything is recorded and all that information is made immediately available to the brain through bionic implants. What would happen? Zen? Insanity? How would we tell the difference between the two?
But yeah. It was a pretty amazing four or so days.
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Dear Carolyn,
We should talk. Be online sometime.
Love, Karen