{"id":529298,"date":"2010-04-15T16:13:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.openthefuture.com,2010:\/\/1.9221"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:13:21","slug":"yes-im-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529298","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I&#8217;m Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month has proven to be hellaciously swamped, but that&#8217;s no excuse for disappearing like that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still on the hellaciously swamped clock until the end of April, however. One of the things on my checklist is a very short trip to NYC to speak at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewards.com\/\">Social Business Edge<\/a> conference. My topic:<\/p>\n<ul>Soylent Twitter: Why the Future is Made of People<\/ul>\n<p>Now to figure out what that means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t make it to NYC, you can still follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/socialbusinessedge\">livestream of the Social Business Edge conference here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a good set of speakers, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to hearing what everyone else has to say.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been asked to speak at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/activate\">Activate Summit 2010<\/a>, in London. It&#8217;s put on by <em>The Guardian<\/em>, and looks to be an effort to put together a UK-based TED-type event. It&#8217;s definitely a TED-class set of speakers on the roster this time around, so it should be quite fun.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that I was in NYC a bit over a week ago, filming an interview for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/videos\/sci-fi-science-videos\/\">Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible<\/a>,&#8221; a show on the Science Channel in the US, and ITV in the UK. My bits won&#8217;t run until the Summer. It seems to be broadly similar to the &#8220;That&#8217;s Impossible&#8221; show I popped up in last year, only this one is hosted by an honest-to-goodness scientist: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michio_Kaku\">Michio Kaku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jamais_cascio\/4464508315\/\" title=\"With Michio Kaku by Jamais Cascio, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4032\/4464508315_fcbd6e5f1e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"With Michio Kaku\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While Dr. Kaku didn&#8217;t conduct the interview, he was there for it, and he and I had an informal lunch afterwards. Let me say, talking about the Fermi Paradox, the origins of the universe, and boiling spacetime(!) with one of the leading thinkers in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/String_field_theory\">string theory<\/a> was pretty damn cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month has proven to be hellaciously swamped, but that&#8217;s no excuse for disappearing like that. I&#8217;m still on the hellaciously swamped clock until the end of April, however. One of the things on my checklist is a very short trip to NYC to speak at the Social Business Edge conference. My topic: Soylent Twitter: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}