R.U. Sirius has a new book of interviews with interesting people, called True Mutations. I can’t wait to get my copy.
True Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology, and Consciousness looks at the wild changes that may be coming to the human species during the 21st Century. In a series of interviews, author/host RU Sirius explores a series of (r)evolutions in disciplines ranging from the evolution of clean energy to the possibilities of endless neurological ecstasy; from open-source free access to nearly everything under the sun to self-directed biotechnological evolution; from psychedelic culture mash-ups to the possibilities of a technological singularity that alters not only humanity but the entire universe.
In 2007, True Mutations takes up where his earlier book (with Rudy Rucker) Mondo 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge left off. I hope these playful, informative, occasionally skeptical, frequently trippy, and sometimes funny conversations turn you on to new ways of thinking about these sometimes scary and definitely wiggy times and inspire new forms of creative work and play among those who read it.
INTRODUCTION
It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings at Your 160th Birthday Party: RU Curious Interviews RU SiriusSECTION ONE: Digital Revolution Reaches PUBERTY
How the Sixties Shaped the Personal Computer Revolution with John Markoff
Other Worlds: Real and Imagined with Jamais Cascio
We Are All as Weird as Any of Us with Cory Doctorow
The End-To-End Principle with Clay Shirkey
Between Anarchy and Oligarchy with Siva Vaidhyanathan
When Cooperation Breaks Out with Howard Rheingold
Imagine Jaron Lanier with Jaron Lanier
The Top 11 Reasons Why VR has not yet become Commonplace by Jaron Lanier
We Like to Watch with Ken Goldberg
Virtually Ahead Of Everybody with Lynn HershmanSECTION TWO: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON TECHNOLOGY
The Manchurian Rodent with David Pescovitz
Hey, Look at my Brain! with Steven Johnson
The Neuroceutical Age with Zack Lynch
Is It Your Brain? with Wrye Sententia
Nootropics: Past, Present & Future with Will Block
I Meme Mine with Susan BlackmoreSECTION THREE: LOVING THE TRANSHUMAN
BioPunk News You Can Use with David Duncan
Fountains of Youth with Michael Asimov and Aubrey de Gray
More-Than-Humanism with Ramez Naam
Feeling Groovy, Forever with David Pierce
TRANSitions with Christopher Dewdney
The Whole Thing Spirals Out of Control with Mark Pesce
Does Transhumanism Suck? with Annalee NewitzSECTION FOUR: AN OPEN SOURCE FOR THE SELF
True Mutations: An Open Source for the Self with Genesis P. Orridge
Hang The Tsar! with Robert Anton Wilson
Magickal Reality Hacking with Richard Metzger
Players with Pat Kane
The 2012 (Or Thereabouts) Trip with Daniel Pinchbeck
No Gene is an Island with Howard Bloom
Recombinant Culture: Cut Sounds and Memes with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky