I was honored to meet Buzz Aldrin about a possible book project almost twenty years ago, and was struck by his brilliance
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
President Obama's JFK Moment
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- Steven Barnes
- For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had. After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life. After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.
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I truly believe that we have reached the point where technology has become one with our lives, and I am 99% certain that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as the price of memory drops, the possibility of uploading our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I daydream about almost every day.
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Aldrin's certainly as qualified to have that opinion as any man I know, and he's not alone -- even somebody like Rand Simberg, who's been scathingly critical of Obama on other issues, thinks that Obama got this one right, and doesn't agree with other Obama critics.
One of my oldest friends is working at JPL on the Orion crew module. I hate seeing his work on this get defunded. But I have to suspect that Aldrin and Simberg, and Obama, have a point.
--Erich Schwarz
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