Which is all to say: *I have tickets for the Talking Heads event at TIFF and I could *not* be more excited.*

Continuing on the Canadian theme, one of the annual highlights of Canadian media is the #MasseyLectures, a series of public lectures given around the country and rebroadcast on #CBC. These are always great, but recent years have been *superb* - @rondeibert's 2020 series was unmissable:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/10/dark-matter/#citizenlab

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Oh, and if you're looking for an excellent curation of nonfiction reading, the CBC Massey Lectures series is a great place to start:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=kw%3A%22cbc%20massey%20lectures%22

#MasseyLectures #Worldcat #Books #ReadingLists

I was listening to "Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centuars" wondering if @pluralistic was familiar with Ursula Franklin, who spoke to this issue 30 years ago.

Of course he is:
https://boingboing.net/2016/05/24/technologys-culture-of-com.html

She's a Candian national treasure.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-world-of-technology/oclc/781487284&referer=brief_results

Original Massey Lecture audio:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845

#UrsulaFranklin #UrsulaKFranklin #MasseyLectures #RealWorldOfTechnology #ReverseCentuars #Chickenification #CoryDoctorow

The 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Real World of Technology"

Technology has always been a part of human existence. Today though, says the experimental physicist, Ursula M. Franklin, technology has large-scale effects on culture itself.

Direct audio:

https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/793/967/Masseys_1989_01.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/796/395/Masseys_1989_02.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/664/155/ideas_20171016_84064_uploaded.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/665/631/ideas_20171016_87526_uploaded.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/341/254/ideas_20171018_59377_uploaded.mp3

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845

#UrsulaKFranklin #technology #TechOntology #CBC #MasseyLectures