The Sofanauts » The Sofanauts No 3 (Listen to me be a fool)

Once again this week, I appear on Sofanauts, Tony Smith’s SF dis­cus­sion pod­cast.  This week, the guests were Gord Sellar, awe­some writer and future John W. Campbell Award win­ner, and Ray Sizemore, a fan­tas­tic nar­ra­tor of podcasts.

I don’t know what it is about being on pod­casts that turns me into a rav­ing lunatic, but this week, I spend time explain­ing why WALL-​​E is darker than the Dark Knight, why I think the Singularity as a futur­is­tic con­cept is laugh­able, and to stick a fork in my career once and for all, I dis­re­spect the sci­ence fic­tion saint Robert Heinlein.

So, if you enjoy lis­ten­ing to me make an utter fool of myself in a rel­a­tively enter­tain­ing fash­ion, go take a listen.

The Sofanauts » The Sofanauts No 3.

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    Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

    7 Responses

    1. Electra says:
      May 2, 2009 at 6:11 am

      We’re lis­ten­ing to it now. I think you sound like the respected peer of this genre and world that the host thinks you are.

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    2. Roy Huggins says:
      May 2, 2009 at 6:28 am

      I’m with you on the sin­gu­lar­ity and Heinlein. Heinlein was cool but pretty overblown. And the sin­gu­lar­ity reminds me of those pre­dic­tive essays from the 50s where they pre­dicted peo­ple would replace food with nutri­tion pills. Maybe you could but why the hell would you want to?

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    3. Jeremiah Tolbert says:
      May 2, 2009 at 6:29 am

      No, Electra! I’m a loose can­non! I’ve gone rogue, and nobody can han­dle it…

      Trying to cul­ti­vate an image here…

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    4. Jeremiah Tolbert says:
      May 2, 2009 at 6:30 am

      Roy– yeah, exactly. They always pre­sume that just because they’re into the idea, so will every­one else, and I think that’s pre­sum­ing far too much.

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    5. Electra says:
      May 2, 2009 at 6:34 am

      :-)
      Man, I can’t think of a witty reply to that. I’ll keep your secret safe and main­tain your rep, dude.

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    6. Roy Huggins says:
      May 2, 2009 at 6:35 am

      I think many of those guys would think twice if they were fac­ing the real thing, hon­estly. The idea is so vague at present, I’m not sure exactly what that guy is pre­dict­ing will hap­pen before 2030 and I’m bet­ting he doesn’t really, either.

      I guess I should say that many ideas of the sin­gu­lar­ity, such as elec­tron­i­cally enhanced mem­ory, etc. don’t seem so far-​​fetched or unde­sir­able to me. I imme­di­ately think of Ghost in the Shell when the sin­gu­lar­ity is mentioned.

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    7. Jeremiah Tolbert says:
      May 2, 2009 at 6:36 am

      Thanks. See, and _​now_​ when I say crazy stuff, peo­ple will just say “oh, he’s fak­ing it to main­tain his rep” and they’ll still think I’m cool and funny.

      I can have it both ways, muahaha.

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