The Echo Dispatch: Alphabet Start (8/8/13)
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40:52 – New idea (personal encyclopedia), history of the alphabet, http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~rfradkin/latin.html, origins, why alphabetical order is so, new letter for the, Shavian language, cell phones, how quickly technology changes, what is not a smart phone, Google glass, augmented reality vs. virtual reality, Battlestar Galactica, spinoff TV show Caprica has virtual reality, societal perils of virtual reality, first testers of Google glass, selling Google glass, getting mugged for your glasses.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Geoff Sink – more info at onsug.com
Released August 2013 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
