#JimHenson: "The Organized Mind" (Mike Douglas Show 7/22/1966)
#whenwewasfab
#whenwewasfab
it is unfortunate CBC has deleted the old Ideas broadcast archives because Paul Kennedy's bit on #Luddism was very good, from 2003 or so, and while we can no longer listen, Wayback can at least recall Paul's Recommended Reading list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040407012911/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/luddites/index.html
Originally titled "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky", this was first screened in 2013 at MIT with a European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
#whenwewasfab
For those late to the cybernetics party, here's a link to a series of Massey Lectures by #StaffordBeer archived by, I know hard to believe today, our very own #CBC from back #whenwewasfab
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819
Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips
Full Episodes - Schoolhouse Rock - 1983
"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers." - Picasso
#whenwewasfab #bobdorough #somepeopleassume #itsprettyBASIC #mathematicalcruncher
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtNESmmhuo7y1kZQcyWJMqkXfYkir6GOA
They sang the songs for what ever power they had⦠it was a Power Song
https://electrocd.com/fr/album/1035-anthologie-de-la-musique-canadienne-musique-electroacoustique
#JohnMayall, once he "got rich" (relative term) thought it would be cool to build himself a fireplace in his new mansion, and build it so it looked like a natural tumble of random rocks that just happened to form a hearth.
He said he learned a GREAT DEAL MORE about masonry than he had ever intended. I find life in software to be a bit like that too. RIP John. One of the rarities.
@syncros fond memories of a #Toronto NOW magazine that once was. The comix, the hilarious classifieds, #SunRa on the cover, those were the days #whenwewasfab
Now playing on radio.teledyn.com, but all I need is to hear that voice and Iβm back there, age 17, assigned as concierge to Elizabeth Cotton and just doinβ the best I can:
#elizabethcotton #folkmusic #whenwewasfab
Elizabeth Cotton 1975-02-19 Euphoria Tavern, Portland, OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da23xiHBkyY
The Dead Past - Out of This World S01E04
based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
#scifi #television #whenwewasfab
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lrtu0
Stafford Beer, Massey Lecture #6, 1973
Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics as applied to society
The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures, "Designing Freedom" | @CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819
#staffordbeer #viablesystemmodel #cybernetics #government #cbc #whenwewasfab
35 years ago this month, George Harrison released his single βWhen We Was Fabβ (1988), a reflection of his days with The Beatles. #GeorgeHarrison #WhenWeWasFab #80s #80smusic #boomtownpodcast
Once upon a time, long ago, in Toronto, there was this clan of ardent opensource freeks on a VC-backed quest to subvert the gatekeepers of recorded music...
#history #distributedchoice #p2p #whenwewasfab #filesharing #Swarmcast
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