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Link: http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/podcast/audio/Quentin_Hardy_UCiSchool_22Mar2006.mp3

Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief of Forbes magazine, gave the second distinguished lecture of the Spring 2006 semester at the UC Berkeley SoI. The talk was titled, "A Tour of the Humanities in 2050, or, The Problem of Everything" whereby Hardy strived to extrapolate what the "self" would be like in 45 years. Hardy was gracious enough to allow the School to record his talk and I've posted the mp3.

Here's the abstract of his talk:

Media have changed ideas about the self and society for centuries, from vernacular print in the Reformation to the 20th Century?s reference to life?s intense moments as being ?like a movie.? What might happen as today?s media blur accelerates? It is not just that news, information and entertainment are in continual overlap, with print, audio and visual streams interchanging. The ideal is that no information is lost, and we are ?always on,? in perpetual connection with continual feeds. In this talk Mr. Hardy will discuss some of the major trends in their historic context, and sketch out the likely consequences.