This is one conversation out of the 19 that took place as part of the Long Conversation.
Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area’s most interesting minds, took place over 6 hours in San Francisco on Saturday October 16, 02010.
http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/oct/16/long-conversation-5-19/
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The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.
SETI’s Jill Tarter has devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and almost all aspects of this field have been affected by her work.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_tarter_s_call_to_join_the_seti_search.html
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John Moe talks about Fish: A Tap Essay by Robin Sloan.
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Author Robin Sloan has written short stories and worked for Twitter. His new book brings those two worlds together to argue that embracing digital culture doesn’t mean you have to give up the treasured books â and values â of the past.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162233599/mr-penumbra-bridges-the-digital-divide?ft=1&f=1032
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