From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #149 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, June 15 2000 Volume 05 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: [OT] Latest instalment [Paul Baily ] Alloy: What Does it Mean to Be Human in the Digital Age?... [RThurF@aol.c] Re: Alloy: [OT] Latest instalment ["electrix" Subject: Alloy: [OT] Latest instalment Hi all, Sorry, but I just had to add a bit to Confidant tonight. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~justsomeguy/preview/confidant2.html I'd be curious to hear what you think. P. [I know, I know, don't need to say it "Don't give up your day job Paul"...] This message powered by The Ghost of Time (aka Great Southern Land 2000 extended) off The Ghost of Time/Iva Davies. "this is not the way that I remember it here" ------------------------------ Date: Wed Jun 14 15:05:17 2000 From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: What Does it Mean to Be Human in the Digital Age?... What Does it Mean to Be Human in the Digital Age? Leading Thinkers Converge at the Fourth Annual Camden Technology Conference CAMDEN, Maine, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology. It's global news. The I LOVE YOU virus. The Microsoft breakup. The NASDAQ roller coaster. But there are deeper ramifications to explore. How dangerous is cyber-terrorism? Is our privacy at risk? Do digital technologies isolate or connect us? What is the future of God and spirituality? What does it mean to be human in the digital age? There are visionaries among us pondering these questions, exploding our concepts of the future, of being human. The Camden Technology Conference's fourth annual conference, Pop!Tech 2000: Being Human in the Digital Age, http://www.poptech.org, promises an exciting roster of such digital luminaries who will provoke and inspire. Among those visionaries who will speak at Pop!Tech 2000 are: Rodney Brooks, Director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Artificial life, self-reproduction, theoretical biology ... discover more at www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/brooks.html Thomas Dolby, Founder of Beatnik (an innovative digital "sonifying" site), electronic musician and multi-media artist. Dolby hasn't stopped exploring digital sounds since he was "blinded with science" in the early eighties. Hear more at www.thomas-dolby.com/index-frameset.html Mary Furlong, aging and technology expert and Founder and Chairman of ThirdAge Media, the leading Internet media company for first wave baby boomers. Visit www.thirdage.com/insider/community/mary/bio.html Ira Glasser, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Privacy, censorship and security issues are more prevalent in the digital age than ever before. Learn more at www.aclu.org/about/glasser.html Bill Joy, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, co-inventor of the Java computing language and co-chair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research. Truly a visionary, Joy is renowned for his meditations on the potential ramifications of genetic engineering and nanotechnology on humanity. To further explore these ideas, visit www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html Pattie Maes, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. Maes is one of the pioneers of a new research area called Software Agents, semi-intelligent computer programs which assist users with the information overload and complexity of the online world. Find out more about her at http://pattie.www.media.mit.edu/people/pattie Adam Clayton Powell III, Director of Technology Studies and Programs at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center. Powell's investigations into the current "digital divide" have appeared in such outlets as the New York Times and National Public Radio Learn more at www.cncdp.pt/arrabida/confer/adamcp.html Megan Smith, CEO of PlanetOut, the leading Internet media company offering a safe and welcoming community for all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people as well as their families and friends. To learn more about Smith's efforts to build online communities, visit www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,8761,00.html Linda Stone, Vice President for Corporate and Industry Initiatives at Microsoft. Stone also created and directed Microsoft's Virtual Worlds team, a joint effort by software developers, designers and social scientists to develop technologies for the construction of social environments that work on a human level. To learn more about Stone's work, visit http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/exec/lstone/default.asp Leonard Sweet, Founder and President of SpiritVenture Ministries and professor of the E. Stanley Jones Chair of Evangelism at Drew University. Sweet is widely known and celebrated as a futurist/semiotician who "sees things the rest of us do not see, and dreams possibilities that are beyond most of our imagining." To discover more visit www.leonardsweet.com/welcome.html Ellen Ullman, software engineer, social commentator and author of "Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents. To find out more about this prominent "geek, writer, icon," visit www.hevanet.com/chezxx/chezxx/ellen.html In addition to this pre-eminent group are such speakers as Mike Hawley, assistant professor of Media Technology, MIT Media Lab; John Perry Barlow, former Grateful Dead lyricist and technology philosopher; and "wired" Maine Governor, the Honorable Angus King. About Pop!Tech 2000: Being Human in the Digital Age The Camden Technology Conference's fourth annual conference, Pop!Tech 2000: Being Human in the Digital Age, will be held October 27-29, 2000 at the Camden Opera House in the scenic, coastal town of Camden, Maine. Co-hosted by 3Com founder and Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and former Apple CEO and Sirius Thinking co-founder John Sculley, the conference will explore themes relating to the dramatic collision of digital technology with human nature. Conference speakers will include technology experts, academics, social pundits and pioneers of the digital age addressing such issues as creativity in the digital age, cyberwar, ethical standards of technological development and privacy. To register visit http://www.poptech.org or call 1-888-877-3128. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:20:58 -0700 From: "electrix" Subject: Re: Alloy: [OT] Latest instalment > >Sorry, but I just had to add a bit to Confidant tonight. > >http://www.ozemail.com.au/~justsomeguy/preview/confidant2.html > >I'd be curious to hear what you think. Yeah... but where is confidant #1 for those absent minded and chronologically challenged.. ;-) - -- electrix Electric/Midi/Synth Guitarist, Composer http://electricson.iuma.com "Inamorata, your music are tomorrows unknown known life. I love tomorrow." --- Conrad Roberts, Poet (from Miles Davis Live/Evil CD) - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:07:18 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: [OT] Latest instalment And on the day of 15/6/2000 7:20 am, electrix thus did spake... > Yeah... but where is confidant #1 for those absent minded and > chronologically challenged.. ;-) Sorry chap! http://www.ozemail.com.au/~justsomeguy/preview/confidant.html Also, http://www.ozemail.com.au/~justsomeguy/preview/index.html has links to all of these hen scratchings with soundbytes for each so you know which ones to steer clear of. :-) P. [dashing out the door to try to make it to work before the Olympic torch relay blocks off all connecting roads from HELL!] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:32:10 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Interview & Conference ughhhh... so weak.... from the struggle.... but I FINALLY have that new page section up. PLease go to http://members.aol.com/RThurF/ThomasDolby1994.htm for a very good interview with Thomas from Making Music magazine, March 1994. As you'll recall from yesterday it's the fastest typing I've ever done in my life (hopefully the most accurate too? hope hopehope) I'll go back in and mend all the typos soon, so let me know if you see any... Right now I'm thinking how much I really wish I could go to that 'What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Digital Age' conference being held in the beautiful town of Camden, Maine. The subject matter is of such great importance to me, I fear the human element is being lost in this onslaught of technology!! Even if not for Thomas' presence at the event - though I'm pleased he's going to speak on the subject! - I would be longing to go to this one. I was actually psyched on my way home thinking I might be able to attend (this is right near where Dave's dad lives) but then I checked the registration fee & it's just a *teeensy* bit out of my range ~swoon~ So much for the human element :) LOL! I shall think loving thoughts of Mr Dolby at conference time though, wishing I could be listening in..! Perhaps they'll let us in on a transcript of the event once it's done? At any rate... I hope you all like the interview as much as I do!! Robin T listening to 'Urban Tribal'... ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #149 ***************************