TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO FOR 3/22/2009 "Future Perfect: Our Computers"
*Imagine a poor child in Uruguay. Now imagine giving that young girl a
hundred-dollar laptop computer. Imagine the educational opportunities
that this laptop will provide this child. Nicholas Negroponte has this
very vision and he's making it a reality throughout the developing
world.  We'll meet Negroponte next time on To the Best of Our Knowledge. 
Also, a video game that makes you cry.  It's part one of Future Perfect,
a four-part series on Visionaries from To the Best of Our Knowledge.

More information on the series at ttbook.org/visionaries

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Future Perfect: Our Computers"

0:00 - 12:01        SEGMENT 1: (12:02)
            We hear how some first grade children in Madison,
            Wisconsin, are getting acquainted with their first
            computers, then hear Jim Fleming speak with Nicholas
            Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child,
            a non-profit association. Negroponte is the co-founder of
            the MIT Media Lab and is out to change the world by
            giving laptops to kids in places too remote to have
            electricity.   
                         
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

12:02 - 12:31  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

12:32 - 34:02       SEGMENT 2: (21:32)
            We hear a mashup featuring the work of hiphop musician DJ
            Spooky and musician Gregg Gillis, who goes by the stage
            name "Girl Talk."  Also, Lawrence Lessig is one of the
            founders of Creative Comons and the author of "Remix:
            Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy." 
            He tells Steve Paulson that our current copyright law is
            far too restrictive and stifles creativity.  Also, video
            game designer Jason Rohrer tells Anne Strainchamps about
            his game "Passage," which is about mortality, not just an
            adrenalin rush.  
                         
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

34:03 - 34:32       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

34:33 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (18:26)
            Sherry Turkle is the author of the classic "The Second
            Self: Computers and the Human Spirit" and she's the
            founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology
            and Self.  She talks with Jim Fleming about the ways in
            which we are already developing relationships with
            personal robotic devices from cellphones and iPods to
            toys like the Furby and My Real Baby.  Also, James Hughes
            is a sociologist, an ordained Buddhist monk, and
            Executive Director of the World Transhumanist
            Association.  His book is "Citizen Cyborg." Hughes tells
            Steve Paulson that he looks forward to the day when we
            figure out how to merge our human flesh with our computer
            technology.   
                         
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo

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