Last week, as we announced previously, Kim Stanley Robinson was part of the “Science, Religion, and Ideology” event at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Event co-organizer Gerry Canavan has put Stan’s speech on youtube (one hour’s worth of material) and blogged extensively about it. Like all of Stan’s interventions, this is stuff you have to watch!
“one of them said “Enough is a bad word. That’s a bad word in America. Enough sounds like not enough. You should change it to Goldilocks, where there’s too little, there’s too much, and then there’s just right. And what you want is just right. And you can easily have too much.” So I thought, okay, Goldilocks. I’ll change it always and mention that it’s not only that enough is as good as a feast, but enough is just right.”
“we’ll be looking back at the 2010s and thinking “They had just discovered the laptop and lost their minds.” It’s like in the discovery of the telephone; for a while there there was the euphoria of the telephone, and everyone had to call everyone, and we’re in that kind of moment for the Internet—but eventually you get past these technologies and we’re just back to people doing things.”
I invite you to head over to Gerry’s post and read, and watch, and think.
A complete list of interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson can be found here.
UPDATE 08/02/10: Gerry Canavan has now posted more material (video and transcript) of the event preceding the “Science, Religion, and Ideology”, again at Duke University.
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