Brin: Time Traveller Convention [was: radicalism]

2005-05-04 Thread Alberto Monteiro
d.brin wrote: In any event, the organizers do not even discuss what PANELS will be held at the convention. Practical panels on paradox protection protocols might attract serious visitors. As it is, the thing seems planned to be content free. Just an invitation to hang around a courtyard.

Re: Brin: Time Traveller Convention [was: radicalism]

2005-05-04 Thread David Brin
--- Alberto... explain? You should _order_ your pal Gregory Benford to write down his experiences in this sort of meeting. AFAIK, he is the only living person now that took part in a Time Traveller Convention ___

radicalism

2005-05-03 Thread d.brin
by the abuses of OTHER fanatics. As the Shah helped make the mullah radicals and WE helped make Al Qaeda with our carelessness during the fight against Russians in Afgh. Cycles of adversarial radicalism are the very things that radicals want. Modernist-pragmatists are stymied when such cycles