It’s with quivering anticipating that I bring to you five steaming examples of prose most purple. It was with heavy hearts that we whittled the voluminous mountain of glittering submissions to this portentous content. The whole experience was a drama of Odysseian proportions that may have left us surprisingly unchanged for the rest of our […]

The good people over at SFSignal decided to turn the tables on your memetherapists and stick us under the spotlight. They asked all three of us a load of questions and you can read our answers here.

Today we interview The Guardian’s Technology editor Charles Arthur on the Free Our Data campaign, aimed at persuading the British government to stop charging for non personal data collected at the taxpayers expense. To read the original article that started the campaign go here. (link)

As usual you’ll have to wade through my two cents first: The first step that I see happening are networked grassroot movements gaining an increasing say in the internal politics of political parties. This isn’t going to happen quickly.

Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics and carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering. I first heard of Kevin Warwick on the news several years ago when his nervous system was wired up to a computer. I didn’t take much notice of him at the time but I saw him again on Building Gods (a documentary available on Google Video- link)

I had the pleasure of interviewing Natasha recently, a transhumanist theorist and futurist with a background in the arts. She was kind enough to answer a few questions about transhumanism and futurism for us.

Meme Therapy continues to limp along without regular internet access. Rosie, Charlie and I continue to make noises about finding a permanent place with broadband but so far little has happened. Mostly this has because Charlie has been rinsing (freeloading) accommodation in a seriously fine flat so he hasn’t been highly motivated.

Three science fiction geeks. Four liters of lager.

Sorry for being so late with this. We’ve compensated for the delay by making this podcast too long. We discuss a grab bag of science fiction related stuff.

I’ve had some feedback that our audio files are hard to find. And yes our blog isn’t the most user friendly. Sorry for being a bit crap in that department but we’re working on it. In the meantime here’s a few quick links to our audio.

The Meme Therapists are in the process of moving house so there is no discussion among us this episode (that might be a good thing). However we did get a hold of a prominent Transhumanist. Those of you who have been following the blog may have notice us mention him before, he’s Dr. James Hughes the executive director of the World Transhumanist Association.

We continue the science fiction and politics thread we started in the blog last week. Rosie joins me and Charlie for this podcast. We discuss the nature of the relationship between science fiction and politics from two angles. First we discuss the nature of science fiction’s political messages. And secondly we discuss real world politics that involve science fictional concepts.

Charlie and I headed up to London last Sunday to attend Copyfight. We interviewed users’ rights activists and some speeches at Speakers Corner. The show was a nightmare to edit but the whole experience was a real blast nonetheless. We hope you enjoy the show. We sure as heck enjoyed making it.

The third episode of the podcast is a day late. Apologies for the delay, but it will be up late tonight. You can either check back to download it or even better subscribe (don’t be shy) by copying this into your podcatcher software’s “Add a Feed” field:

Charlie and I record our first show. Is this a first stab into a wonderful new media or a hesitation cut before commiting creative suicide? You decide.

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