Summary: In this installment, KMO speaks with Colin Tudge and David Blume about the possible applications of high technology, genetic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence in farming. Both of the guests on this week's program have long and impressive bios which I did not even attempt to do justice when I introduced them. Here is a tasty tidbit from David Blume's bio: KQED, San Francisco’s Public Broadcasting System station, asked Dave to put his alcohol workshop on television, and together they spent two years making the ten-part series, Alcohol as Fuel. To accompany the series, Dave wrote the comprehensive manual on the subject, the original Alcohol Can Be A Gas! Shortly after the first show aired, in 1983, oil companies threatened to pull out their funding if the series was continued. KQED halted the distribution of the series and book (see this current book’s Introduction for the whole story). And here's a snippet from Colin Tudge's bio: CT nurses the conviction that human beings are basically both sensible and nice and that if only democracy could be made to work—creating societies based on people's real desires and values, as opposed to those assumed by economists and governments—then the world would be a much better place. After so many decades of muddle-headedness and abuse, it may well be too late to keep the world in a tolerable state. Yet this still may be achievable, and is surely worth a try. At the end of the show, I mentioned Martin Ball's new podcast, the Entheogenic Evolution. You can find it here: http://entheogenic.podomatic.com/ Laboratory AIDS And I also made mention of a recent episode of Mike Hagan's RadiOrbit program which features an interview with Ed Boyd Graves. You can download that episode here: http://www.mikehagan.com/2012/mp3/020408_BOYD_GRAVES.mp3 Do NOT ignore the black man with the flow chart! Finally, here is a sample from the journal of Russian sociologist, Pitirim Sorokin that C-Realm sponsor, Lorin K. sent to me:
