#JimHenson: "The Organized Mind" (Mike Douglas Show 7/22/1966)
#whenwewasfab
#JimHenson: "The Organized Mind" (Mike Douglas Show 7/22/1966)
#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
Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as "The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear," "The Discarded Tools of Modern Man," "A Liberty Machine in Prototype," "Science in the Service of Man," "The Future That Can Be Demanded Now," "The Free Man in a...
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.
Now playing on radio.teledyn.com, but all I need is to hear that voice and I’m back there, age 17, assigned as concierge to Elizabeth Cotton and just doin’ the best I can:
#elizabethcotton #folkmusic #whenwewasfab
Elizabeth Cotton 1975-02-19 Euphoria Tavern, Portland, OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da23xiHBkyY