From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 20:25:31 MDT
At 01:44 AM 4/30/03 +0200, Anders wrote:
>This sunday a television program about life extension aired, as part
>of a biotech series by the educational section of Swedish
>Television (the public service channels). Yours truly was one of the
>commentators in the studio.
Fabulous! Congratulations.
>Even more
>impressive was they fairly positive coverage of cryonics - it was
>treated as a big gamble, but not a crazy cult or an affront to
>nature. Much of this was due to the wonderful presence of Marta
>Sandberg from Australia, who gave a very human and loving face to
>the dream of immortality. She was great! I wish she lived in Sweden.
She was one of those interviewed a while back here in Oz on the series
AFTERSHOCK, which dealt explicitly with the singularity.
http://www.abc.net.au/aftershock/episode1.htm
BTW, for Australians here: on Friday night at 8.30pm, SBS will broadcast a
program titled THE WHAT-IF MAN, about the notable, sensible and urbanely
amusing science fiction encyclopedist Peter Nicholls, a fellow resident of
Melbourne. Part of the show was filmed in my living room, as several of us
gobbled fat-inducing food and wine and babbled about sf. I haven't seen it
myself, but I'm told it's quite good.
Damien Broderick
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