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Yesterday's Tomorrow
by Divarin
A look back at tech pioneers who looked forward.
Episodes
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Tech Nation - Technophobia
12/06/1994 - Technophobia Moira interviews GARY HEIL, President of Heil & Associates, a San Francisco firm specializing in organizational change. Of specific interest is the change which has occurred as a result of technology creating a higher expectation on the part of consumers, including the...
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Tech Nation - Alex Besher & Jonathan Nelson
11/29/1994 - Alex Besher & Jonathan Nelson This program features ALEX BESHER, author of "RIM", a Novel of Virtual Reality". This new novel is the buzz of the book reviews. It has elements of high tech, sci-fi, new age, action and adventure. Moira talks to the author about his book, his years as a...
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Tech Nation - Virtual Organizations
11/22/1994 - Virtual Organizations Moira interviews DR. KENNETH PREISS, a Senior Fellow specializing in international competitiveness at the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University. Dr. Preiss, who is also a senior faculty member at Ben-Gurion University, offers his perspectives on the…
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Tech Nation - Jim Lovell, Apollo 13
111/15/1994 - Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Before a live audience at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose California, Moira interviews JIM LOVELL, Commander of Lunar Mission APOLLO 13. They recall the explosion that happened on that frightening journey, the technical reasons behind it and the…
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Geek of the Week - Bob Braden
09/29/1993 - Bob Braden Carl Malamud interviews Bob Braden, Executive Director of the Internet Architecture Board and a long-time participant in the Internet. Braden discusses the DARTNET experimental network and research in the areas of resource reservation and other topics related to his work…
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Tech Nation - American Technology CEO's
11/08/1994 - American Technology CEO's This program features JOSEPH ROMM, Special Assistant for Policy and Planning to the Deputy Secretary of Energy. As Executive Director of the Pollution Control and Waste Minimization Board, Dr. Romm has had the opportunity to work with numerous American...
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Tech Nation - Roaring '20s and the Internet
10/21/1994 - Roaring '20s and the Internet Moira Gunn speaks with Jules Tygiel, a professor of history at San Francisco State University, about his new book. "The Great Los Angeles Swindle" describes Los Angeles in the Roaring '20s. It was the first truly modern American city, springing to life...
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Tech Nation - The End of Linear Thinking / Doug Engelbart
10/14/1994 - The End of Linear Thinking / Doug Engelbart Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine, on his new book "Out of Control: The Rise of Neo- Biological Civilization." Kevin compares the biological behavior of nature to human-built systems. From his unique...
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Tech Nation - Computer Life / CD-Roms
09/29/1994 - Computer Life / CD-Roms John Dickinson, Editor-in-Chief of "Computer Life", and Ruth Stevens, Vice President, Ziff-Davis Consumer Media Group. They discuss the work that went into this new technical consumer magazine. They discuss how personal computers have become mainstream in our...
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Tech Nation - The First Virtual Reality Wedding
08/18/1994 - The First Virtual Reality Wedding In this edition of TechNation, Monika Liston and Aimee Rosewall, of CyberMind Virtual Reality Centers. Monika will soon become the world's first virtual reality bride, with the help of Aimee, the world's first virtual reality wedding coordinator.…
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Tech Nation - Technology and Health Care
07/22/1994 - Technology and Health Care Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Hiles, president of Thinking Tools, a Monterey, California-based company that develops software "games" that help people think about complex sociological issues. Their popular product "Sim City" lets the player create a city...
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Tech Nation - Gambling Meets Technology
07/15/1994 - Gambling Meets Technology Moira Gunn speaks with Howard Schwartz, marketing director of the Gambler's Book Club and the Gambler's Book Shop. "Gambler's" offers the largest selection of books and reference materials on gambling and is used by government agencies, movie productions,...
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Tech Nation - Live from Networld+Interop in Las Vegas
07/08/1994 - Live from Networld+Interop in Las Vegas The Internet -- where has it been? Where is it going? A roundtable discussion features Moira Gunn speaking with Dan Lynch, founder of the Interop conference, Carl Malamud, president of the Internet Multicasting Service, John Gage, Director of…
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Tech Nation - Interactive TV and Rain Forests
07/01/1994 - Interactive TV and Rain Forests Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with David Lockton, CEO and Chairman of the Interactive Network (IN). IN will interactive television to the country later this year. In testing since 1990 in the San Francisco Bay area, IN will be introduced soon in Chicago and…
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Tech Nation - Other Dimensions
02/24/1994 - Other Dimensions Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York, talks to Moira Gunn about how the universe works. Dr. Kaku is host of the weekly public radio program "Explorations," and author of the new book "Hyperspace…
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Tech Nation - Electric Cars and Virtual Reality
06/22/1994 - Electric Cars and Virtual Reality Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Sheldon Kamieniecki, Director of Environmental Studies at the University of southern California. They discuss the effects of the Clean Air Act on California's environment, and look closely at the state of technology for...
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Tech Nation - What Happens Next?
06/15/1994 - What Happens Next? Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Paul Saffo, research fellow at the Institute for the Future. They look at whether or not Silicon Valley eats its young, and discuss the true time it takes for technologies to catch on. Of major interest is the upcoming information glut…
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Tech Nation - TechNation Live! From the PRC
06/10/1994 - TechNation Live! From the PRC This program was taped live at the 1994 Public Radio Conference in San Antonio, Texas, and features Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, General Chuck Horner, commander of the U.S. Space Command, Skip Johns, associate director for technology of the Executive...
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Tech Nation - Victims of Technology
06/08/1994 - Victims of Technology Moira Gunn speaks with Don Sellers, documentary filmmaker and author of "ZAP! How your computer can hurt you -- and what you can do about it." Mr. Sellers discusses the aspects of using personal computers that can affect health, the problems with using new...
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Tech Nation - Nanotechnology and Corporate Computers
06/02/1994 - Nanotechnology and Corporate Computers Moira Gunn gets small with K. Eric Drexler on the future of nanotechnology. "Nano" means "small," and nanotechnology explores manufacturing on a molecular scale. The discussion explores the concept of robots that put molecules together, along…
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Tech Nation - Gershwin Lives! and ImagiNation
05/24/1994 - Gershwin Lives! and ImagiNation Moira Gunn speaks with Artis Wodehouse, a pianist and Gershwin scholar, who has studied the piano rolls of George Gershwin under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her work has led her to convert some 65 of the 130 known Gershwin...
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Tech Nation - The Scientific Search for the Soul
03/18/1994 - The Scientific Search for the Soul Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Francis Crick, who, with James Watson, discovered the double helix structure of DNA. Crick and Watson received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work. Crick's most recent research has investigated the role of the...
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Tech Nation - Macintosh and the *New* Point and Click
03/13/1994 - Macintosh and the *New* Point and Click Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh Project at Apple Computers. First introduced 10 years ago, the Macintosh graphic interface has become an industry standard for using any personal computer, Macintosh or otherwise....
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Tech Nation - Cars and Uranium
03/05/1994 - Cars and Uranium Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Warren Brown, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Mr. Brown talks about the American car industry, the relationship between technology and federal regulations, and the international "cross-breeding" of car models. Nominated in…
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Tech Nation - Carl Sagan and SETI
02/25/1994 - Carl Sagan and SETI Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Carl Sagan, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and host of the award-winning PBS series "Cosmos." Dr. Sagan discusses his interest in finding habitable planets that can support life, and reviews the characteristics of habitable...
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Tech Nation - Plants of the Planet -- Biodiversity
02/19/1994 - Plants of the Planet -- Biodiversity Moira Gunn speaks with Kenny Ausubel, CEO, and Nina Simons, President, of Seeds of Change, the nation's leading supplier of organic seeds. They discuss his new book "Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure," the passionate story of the growing…
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Tech Nation - Behind the Macintosh, In Front of the IBM PC
02/18/1994 - Behind the Macintosh, In Front of the IBM PC Moira Gunn speaks with Steven Levy, author of "Insanely Great ... The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything." They discuss the unusual environment in which the computer was developed, the management style of…
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Geek of the Week - Steve Crocker
07/15/1994 - Steve Crocker Carl Malamud interviews Steve Crocker, a newly elevated member of the Internet Architecture Board and a leading contributor in efforts to provide a security infrastructure for the Internet. Crocker discusses PEM, Clipper, DSS, PKP, and other important security acronyms.
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Tech Nation - Inside Computers/Technology in Eastern Europe
02/12/1994 - Inside Computers/Technology in Eastern Europe Moira Gunn speaks with John Hennessy, Professor, Stanford University and David Patterson, Professor, U.C. Berkeley on their new book, "Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface." Labelled as tremendous "rivals" by…
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Geek of the Week - Radia Perlman
07/08/1994 - Radia Perlman Carl Malamud interviews Radia Perlman, author of Interconnections: Bridges and Routers (Addison Wesley, 1992), considered to be the authoritative book on the subject. Dr. Perlman is a staff scientist at Novell and was the chief designer of the OSI ES-IS and IS-IS…
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Tech Nation - Elizabeth Kemf / Sir Edmund Hillary
02/10/1994 - Elizabeth Kemf / Sir Edmund Hillary Moira Gunn speaks with Elizabeth Kemf, environmentalist, journalist, and photographer, and conservation editor at World Wildlife International. In her book, "The Law of the Mother: Protecting indigenous peoples in protected areas," Ms. Kemf looks…
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Geek of the Week - Scott O. Bradner
07/01/1994 - Scott O. Bradner Carl Malamud interviews Scott Bradner, a multiple area director in the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and a consultant on the staff of Harvard University. Bradner talks about the IP Next Generation (IPng) decision, his router evaluation laboratory, and…
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Tech Nation - War, Anti-War, and the Air Force Space Command
02/05/1994 - War, Anti-War, and the Air Force Space Command Moira speaks with Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler. Widely known for their earlier works, "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave," they have now moved their focus to the evolution of war and of peace. They'll discuss their new book, "War &...
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Geek of the Week - Keith Moore
06/24/1994 - Keith Moore Keith Moore of the University of Tennessee and one of the original MIME developers, talks about multimedia messaging in the Internet. This interview discusses different MIME content types, external pointers, and other elements of this rapidly deploying set of protocols....
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Tech Nation - Saturn Automobile and Silicon Valley
01/29/1994 - Saturn Automobile and Silicon Valley Moira Gunn speaks with Joe Sherman, author of "In the Rings of Saturn." They discuss how General Motors came to build its new, high- tech Saturn automobile factory in tiny Spring Hill, Tennessee; how 7,500 American auto workers came to work there;...
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Geek of the Week - Bob Kummerfeld
06/17/1994 - Bob Kummerfeld Bob Kummerfeld is the codeveloper of the MHSnet, a set of messaging protocols with about the same age and user base as X.400. Kummerfeld, former chair of the Computer Science Department in Sydney, talks about messaging protocols and standards and what makes one group...
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Tech Nation - Pioneers of Technology
12/17/1993 - Pioneers of Technology Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Edson de Castro, Founder & Former CEO of Data General Corporation and frequently called the "father of the minicomputer." A recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Award, he was a key player in the evolution of computer...
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Geek of the Week - Ron Frederick
06/03/1994 - Ron Frederick This week, Carl Malamud interviews Ron Frederick, the author of the popular nv video tool used on the multicast backbone (mbone). Frederick discusses how video gets encoded and how we can transmit isochronous data streams like audio and video over a multicast IP layer.
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Tech Nation - New Science / Fringe Science
12/10/1993 - New Science / Fringe Science Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Margaret Wheatley, author of "Management & the New Science ... Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe," and Professor of Management at Brigham Young University. They discuss how our view of the universe from the...
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Geek of the Week - Tim O'Reilly
05/27/1994 - Tim O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly has an unusual background for a publishing magnate. Working as a Unix consultant, O'Reilly & Associates developed a special relationship with the arcane UUCP protocols, expertise that led to a set of two pamphlets describing how to manage, set up, and use…
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Tech Nation - Everyday Wonders & MS/DOS
12/03/1993 - Everyday Wonders & MS/DOS Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Barry Evans, author of "Everyday Wonders ... Encounters With the Astonishing World Around Us," and nationally- syndicated columnist of "Starwatch." They look at the purpose of "wondering" and examine how close science is to us...
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Geek of the Week - Geoff Baehr
03/16/1994 - Geoff Baehr Carl Malamud interviews Geoff Baehr, Chief Technical Officer for Networking at Sun Microsystems. The first President of the ATM Forum, Geoff has been one of the leaders in the move to bring ATM networks into the LAN. Baehr also discusses the importance of security and how...
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Tech Nation - Television Violence and Home Computers
11/26/1993 - Television Violence and Home Computers Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Parker Page, President of the Children's Television Resource and Education Center, on the presence and effects of television violence today. They'll examine the controversy of Beavis & Butthead and will also look at…
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Geek of the Week - David Crocker
03/09/1994 - David Crocker Carl Malamud interviews David Crocker of Silicon Graphics. David is best known as the author of RFC 822, one of the key defining documents for the Internet protocol suite. Crocker gives us his views on what it will take to begin conducting real commerce on the Internet...
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Tech Nation - Toxic Nation/Wireless Communications
11/19/1993 - Toxic Nation/Wireless Communications Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Fred Setterberg and Lonny Shavelson, authors of the book "Toxic Nation ... The Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination." Together, Setterberg and Shavelson spent 3 years speaking with communities across...
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Geek Of The Week - Craig Partridge
03/02/1994 - Craig Partridge Carl Malamud interviews Craig Partridge, a noted authority on gigabit networks and no slouch when it comes to megabit and kilobit networks, either. Craig is a long-time BBN employee and an active participant in the IETF and SIGCOMM. In this interview, he discusses...
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Tech Nation - Life in the Technology Age
11/13/1993 - Life in the Technology Age Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tony Smith, author of "Parzival's Briefcase -- Six Practices and a New Philosophy for Healthy Organizational Change." Through the medieval legend of the knight Parzival, Dr. Smith likens our journeys in the technology age to the...
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Geek of the Week - Mike Schwartz
02/23/1994 - Mike Schwartz Carl Malamud interviews Mike Schwartz, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the researchers working in the area known as resource discovery. Mike talks about netfind, his flexible, non-centralized white pages tool and about several other of his research...
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Tech Nation - Danger from Power Lines and Growth Hormones
11/06/1993 - Danger from Power Lines and Growth Hormones Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Paul Brodeur, author of "The Great Power-Line Cover-Up ... How the Utilities and the Government Are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazards Posed by Electromagnetic Fields," They discuss the basic reasons why this...
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Geek of the Week - Don Hoffman
02/16/1994 - Don Hoffman Carl Malamud interviews Don Hoffman, a technical manager and programmer at Sun Microsystems. Don has long (and sometimes painful) experience writing complex network-based programs in areas ranging from network management to multimedia. He discusses the challenges in...
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