{"id":5095,"date":"2014-02-01T23:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2014-04-11T06:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:42:05","slug":"gave-two-talks-dorkbot-transhuman-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/gave-two-talks-dorkbot-transhuman-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"Gave Two Talks: Dorkbot & Transhuman Visions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave two talks this week. Wednesday I was at the Cyclecide Swearhouse in San Francisco, reading from The Big Aha<\/em> for a Dorkbot event. I didn\u2019t tape it, but some video may appear on the dorkbot archive page <\/a> for this event in a week or so.<\/p>\n

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Photo above shows Jericho Reese, Rudy Jr., me, Isabel R., and techie Mark Powell in his anti-tech T-shit. In the background we have John Law\u2019s Doggie Diner icons.<\/p>\n

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Another picture of Mark Powell\u2026reading a poem \u201cI\u2019m on TV!\u201d\u009d Love how fervent he looks. It was a great evening for me, hanging out with the cool Dorkbot crowd.<\/p>\n

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Today I was at the Transhuman Visions conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco and gave a talk called \u201cThe Big Aha: Cosmic and Robotic Consciousness.\u201d\u009d It went over well, got some big laughs. You can click on the icon below to access the podcast via Rudy Rucker Podcasts. <\/p>\n

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And you can view my slides online as a PDF file<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After my Transhuman talk, some nice people talked to me for awhile, and I took a picture of them shown below. Didn\u2019t get all their names but starting second from the left, that\u2019s David Dye, Jr. and Sr., Dan Dye, and a guy called Scott. These four forward-thinking men bought copies of my books.<\/p>\n

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One other event worth noting. I happened to mention one Frank Shook in my Transhumans talk, and incredibly, I ran into this man soon thereafter, the hero of Saucer Wisdom<\/a><\/em>. Frank has resurfaced in the persona of an antiquarian bookseller Gregory Gibson, running a front organization called Ten Pound Island Books<\/a>. His cover story was that he was at Fort Mason for the Antiquarian Book Fair. <\/p>\n

Frank, who tends to disorder and undermine any and all aspects of consensus reality insisted I was talking about \u201ctranshumance,\u201d\u009d instead of \u201ctranshumans.\u201d\u009d And, now that Frank has said this, there is indeed a Wikipedia word \u201ctranshumance<\/a>,\u201d\u009d applying to nomadic people. A strange and powerful entity is Mr. Shook. I believe he\u2019s re-manifesting himself because I am making some plans to republish my long-suppressed Saucer Wisdom <\/em>expos\u00c3\u00a9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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