Jeff Bilbro, FPR’s super-beaver EIC and Grove City College professor, looks to ancient mythology to assess modern technology and fiction of the future. Cassandra Nelson of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is stuck in the middle, a bit like AI itself. Author, teacher, and mother Tessa Carman looks for life in abundance in Minnesota and Maryland. Writer and Berry Center board member Kate Dalton Boyer introduces the speakers.
Highlights
1:00 Kate kicks things off
Jeff Bilbro: “Where Now Are Wayland’s Bones?”
3:30 Kingsnorth and Norse smith explained
12:30 Tempted by ease and justice
15:00 AI amigos for the autonomous
19:00 Computerized convocations
22:00 Wise touch
Cassandra Nelson: “Median Humans and the Life That Really is Life”
26:00 Harboring a secret subtitle
29:15 A hallucinating average machine
34:30 M.A.D. results
41:00 Fancy tooters over computers
45:00 Against photocopies
Tessa Carman: “The Joy of Tech Resistance”
46:30 FPR Match Game
48:00 Manifestos and better tools
51:00 You don’t have to!
55:00 Postman knocks, people dance
63:00 Better names and best practices
Resources
Speaker bios and conference videos
Interview with Jeanne Schindler on Postman Pledge
Conference co-sponsor Plough
Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music
