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David Brin

2007-01-24T06:59:47Z

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[[Category:Authors]]David Brin, Ph.D. is a well-known author of science fiction; he has won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He is also known as a leading commentator on modern technological trends; many of these writings are available in various places online.
==Edit Notes==
I couldn't find any quick-and-easy lists of Brin's online works, so that will be the main function of this page (since Wikipedia covers the rest quite nicely). The Index is by no means complete, but I will be adding to it as time permits. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 12:36, 5 November 2005 (EST)

A Helpful source might be:
http://www.davidbrin.com/biography.html

==Reference==
* {{wikipedia|David Brin}}
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109432/ IMDB]
==Related Pages==
Two Brin-related projects:
* [[Holocene Chat]], an attempt to redesign real-time chat for the 21st century
* [[The ArchiTECHS]], a show on The History Channel featuring Brin and several other notable innovators

==Links==
* Official:
** [http://davidbrin.com official web site] ([http://www.davidbrin.net/ alternate servers])
** [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ Contrary Brin], David Brin's blog
** [http://david-brin.dailykos.com/ Daily Kos]: began cross-posting from Contrary Brin on 2007-01-18
* Other:
** [http://earthbydavidbrin.pbwiki.com/FrontPage Earth by David Brin]: wiki created to track "predictive hits" for Brin's novel ''Earth'' (see also [[issuepedia:Prediction Registry|Prediction Registry]])

==Writings==
* [http://www.davidbrin.com/jackwilliamson.html Jack Williamson: Master of Consistency and Change]: updated 2006-11-10, shortly after [[wikipedia:Jack Williamson|Williamson]]'s death
* [http://lifeboat.com/ex/want.to.live.forever Want to Live Forever?]
* [[wnwiki:Brin_CTF_Essay|Singularities and Nightmares: The Range of Our Futures]] (wiki page)
* "Political Totemism and the Danger of Metaphors" (intended to be read in sequence):
** '''2006-02-18''' Part One: [http://www.reformthelp.org/theory/positioning/models.php Models, Maps and Visions of Tomorrow]
** '''2006-03-12''' Part Two: [http://www.reformthelp.org/theory/moderation/goal.php The Ultimate Goal]
** '''2006-04-20''' Part Three: [http://www.reformthelp.org/theory/moderation/consensus.php The Grand American Consensus]
** Part Four to be posted soon.
* [http://www.ieti.org/articles/brin.htm An Open Letter to Alien Lurkers]
* Society & Politics
** [http://www.davidbrin.com/readiness1.html America's Declining State of Readiness] (2006)
** [http://www.davidbrin.com/disputationarticle1.html Disputation Arenas: Harnessing Conflict and Competitiveness for Society's Benefit] (2000aug)
** [http://www.davidbrin.com/realculturewar1.html The Real Culture War] (2004)
** [[Issuepedia:David Brin: Gerrymandering|Gerrymandering]] (wiki page with index to all versions of article)
** [[Issuepedia:David Brin: Reducing Blame to Fundamentals|Reducing Blame to Fundamentals]] (article posted on wiki page)
** 2000 [http://www.davidbrin.com/2001article.html 2001: A Space Odyssey]: Shining Light on How Far We've Come
** 1999-12-23 [http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/23/083256&mod%20e=thread A Quiet Adult: My Candidate for Man of the Century]: George Marshall
* Book Reviews
** '''2005-09-11''' [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050911/news_lz1v11science.html 'War' dispatches]: review of ''The Republican War on Science'' by Chris Mooney: "The modern scientific era has brought about many wondrous things, but it's under attack; Chris Mooney rises to the defense."
** '''2003-12''' [http://www.davidbrin.com/progressparadoxarticle.html Been Up So Long, It Looks Like Down to Me]: a challenge to the "common notion that our wisdom has lagged behind technology"
* On [http://davidbrin.com/fictionarticles.html the art of fiction]:
** [http://davidbrin.com/advicearticle.html small trove of advice] for writers
** [http://davidbrin.com/enlightenmentarticle.html The Enlightenment, Romanticism and Science Fiction]: "Heirs of Ben Franklin and Those of Percy Shelley Vie for the Future"
** [http://www.ideomancer.com/ft/Brin/Brin.htm Ideomancer interview]
** [http://www.davidbrin.com/livingplanet.html An Interview about Science Fiction and the Environment]
** [http://www.artistinterviews.com/subscriptions/literature/davidbrin.htm ArtistInterviews interview]
** [http://mmp.planetary.org/artis/brind/brind70.htm The Planetary Society interview]
** [http://davidbrin.com/matrixarticle.html The Matrix: Tomorrow May Be Different]
** [http://www.davidbrin.com/tolkienarticle1.html We Hobbits are a Merry Folk...] "...an incautious and heretical re-appraisal of J.R.R. Tolkien"
** On ''Star Wars'':
*** [http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15/brin_main/index.html "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists]
*** Sidebar: [http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15/brin_side/index.html What's wrong (and right) with ''The Phantom Menace'']
*** [http://davidbrin.com/starwarsarticle1.html An Addendum...]
*** [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2005/11/real-aliens-and-bad-sci-fi.html "real" aliens... and bad sci fi]: see #2 for more on Star Wars
===Collaborations===
* [http://readingforfuture.com/Proposal.htm An Open Proposal to the SF Community] from the "Killer Bees" ([[David Brin]], [[Gregory Benford]], [[Greg Bear]])

==Audio==
* '''2004-11-06''' [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail358.html Evaluating Horizons]: streaming and MP3
==Video==
* '''2006-10-17''' [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1700440519407762800&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU Third Millennium Problem Solving]: 1 hr 31 min 27 sec
* '''2006-10-08''' [http://www.sandiego.com/sdhistory.jsp?id=d4cd3fda-1e78-4263-89b8-2270374c182d Interview with Local Author David Brin]: text is an introduction to the interview video (37 MB), which can be [http://download-v5.streamload.com/6ecadd44-fde0-4985-917a-798759c4c4c0/markburgess/FileManager/brin.wmv?action=stream streamed] or [http://download-v5.streamload.com/6ecadd44-fde0-4985-917a-798759c4c4c0/markburgess/FileManager/brin.wmv downloaded]

The ArchiTECHS

2007-01-24T06:58:01Z

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==Overview==
[[The ArchiTECHS]] was a one-episode television show on The History Channel - one of two pilots for a proposed series in which a team of innovators struggle to come up with unique design solutions under a suspenseful time limit.

The show featured "five geniuses", including author-scientist [[David Brin]], TV legend and designer Dave Stollery, visionary artist Tim Flattery and others "in a 48-hour quest to design better ways to escape and fight skyscraper fires."

Promotions for the show had this to say: "Five geniuses are challenged: innovate fire rescue and evacuation tools for skyscraper disasters... ''and do it in 48 hours!'' Watch a small team of designers and visionaries form a high-tech think tank, racing the clock to shape bold, over-the-horizon designs for the future. With unprecedented cooperation from [[New York, NY|New York]]'s regional fire departments, episode #1 culminates in a dramatic presentation to Former FDNY Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, one of the heroes of [[issuepedia:9/11|9/11]]..."

Another Pilot Episode was filmed half a year earlier, at the U.S. Army National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California, where a somewhet different and larger team of "geniuses" were charged (by 4 star General Paul Kern) with the task for "designing the next humvee."
Result? A super badass concept vehicle. It is unclear, as of January 2007, whether there are any plans to show that episode or offer it on DVD.

CAST MEMBERS OF THE FIREFIGHTING EPISODE:
David Brin, Tim Flattery, David Stollery, Jim Tucci, Andrew Thompson

CAST OF THE (never shown) HUMVEE EPISODE:
David Brin, Tim Flattery, Adam Rogers, Alexander Rose, Noah Shachtman, David Stollery, Reichert von Wolfsheild

Produced by Mod3 Productions: http://mod3productions.com/
Danny Gold, Mathew Asner, Larry Herbst

==Showings==
* '''Premiere''' (2006-10-11 23:00): Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 PM
* '''Repeat''' (2006-10-12 23:00): October 12 at 3 AM & October 14 at 11:00 AM

==Discussion==
* [http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?forumID=600000061&threadID=800014486 Architechs Show] thread on History Channel forums
** Note that a search of the History Channel web site ''will not'' find this page; [[WTF]]?

A DVD of the show appears to be ambiguously for sale on the History Channel (A&E) site at:
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=75873

Details re: CAST MEMBERS OF THE FIREFIGHTING EPISODE:
David Brin - author http://www.davidbrin.com,
Tim Flattery - artist,
David Stollery - designer,
Jim Tucci - rocket scientist,
Andrew Thompson -architect,

Details re: CAST OF THE (never shown) HUMVEE EPISODE:
Reichert von Wolfsheild - inventor, David Stollery - designer,
Noah Shachtman - defense journalist,
Alexander Rose - roboticist,
Adam Rogers - editor WIRED Magazine,
Tim Flattery -artist,
David Brin - author,

==Links==
* '''2006-10-10''' [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/10/architechs-terrific-and-other-news.html ArchiTechs: terrific!... and other news]: Brin comments on the preview
* '''2006-10-11''' [http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/11/watch-david-brin-on-the-architechs-oct11-2006/ Watch David Brin on The ArchiTechs Oct.11, 2006]: announcement at Futurist.com
===Reference===
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783479/ IMDB]

The ArchiTECHS

2007-01-24T06:56:02Z

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==Overview==
[[The ArchiTECHS]] was a one-episode television show on The History Channel - one of two pilots for a proposed series in which a team of innovators struggle to come up with unique design solutions under a suspenseful time limit.

The show featured "five geniuses", including author-scientist [[David Brin]], TV legend and designer Dave Stollery, visionary artist Tim Flattery and others "in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires."

Promotions for the show had this to say: "Five geniuses are challenged: innovate fire rescue and evacuation tools for skyscraper disasters... ''and do it in 48 hours!'' Watch a small team of designers and visionaries form a high-tech think tank, racing the clock to shape bold, over-the-horizon designs for the future. With unprecedented cooperation from [[New York, NY|New York]]'s regional fire departments, episode #1 culminates in a dramatic presentation to Former FDNY Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, one of the heroes of [[issuepedia:9/11|9/11]]..."

==Showings==
* '''Premiere''' (2006-10-11 23:00): Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 PM
* '''Repeat''' (2006-10-12 23:00): October 12 at 3 AM & October 14 at 11:00 AM

==Discussion==
* [http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?forumID=600000061&threadID=800014486 Architechs Show] thread on History Channel forums
** Note that a search of the History Channel web site ''will not'' find this page; [[WTF]]?

A DVD of the show appears to be ambiguously for sale on the History Channel (A&E) site at:
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=75873

Details re: CAST MEMBERS OF THE FIREFIGHTING EPISODE:
David Brin - author http://www.davidbrin.com,
Tim Flattery - artist,
David Stollery - designer,
Jim Tucci - rocket scientist,
Andrew Thompson -architect,

Details re: CAST OF THE (never shown) HUMVEE EPISODE:
Reichert von Wolfsheild - inventor, David Stollery - designer,
Noah Shachtman - defense journalist,
Alexander Rose - roboticist,
Adam Rogers - editor WIRED Magazine,
Tim Flattery -artist,
David Brin - author,

==Links==
* '''2006-10-10''' [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/10/architechs-terrific-and-other-news.html ArchiTechs: terrific!... and other news]: Brin comments on the preview
* '''2006-10-11''' [http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/11/watch-david-brin-on-the-architechs-oct11-2006/ Watch David Brin on The ArchiTechs Oct.11, 2006]: announcement at Futurist.com
===Reference===
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783479/ IMDB]

The ArchiTECHS

2007-01-24T06:42:27Z

75.55.166.172: /* Overview */

==Overview==
[[The ArchiTECHS]] was a one-episode television show on The History Channel - one of two pilots for a proposed series in which a team of innovators struggle to come up with unique design solutions under a suspenseful time limit.

The show featured "five geniuses", including author-scientist [[David Brin]], TV legend and designer Dave Stollery, visionary artist Tim Flattery and others "in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires."

Promotions for the show had this to say: "Five geniuses are challenged: innovate fire rescue and evacuation tools for skyscraper disasters... ''and do it in 48 hours!'' Watch a small team of designers and visionaries form a high-tech think tank, racing the clock to shape bold, over-the-horizon designs for the future. With unprecedented cooperation from [[New York, NY|New York]]'s regional fire departments, episode #1 culminates in a dramatic presentation to Former FDNY Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, one of the heroes of [[issuepedia:9/11|9/11]]..."

==Showings==
* '''Premiere''' (2006-10-11 23:00): Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 PM
* '''Repeat''' (2006-10-12 23:00): October 12 at 3 AM & October 14 at 11:00 AM

==Discussion==
* [http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?forumID=600000061&threadID=800014486 Architechs Show] thread on History Channel forums
** Note that a search of the History Channel web site ''will not'' find this page; [[WTF]]?

A DVD of the show appears to be ambiguously for sale on the History Channel (A&E) site at:
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=75873

Another Pilot Episode was filmed half a year earlier, at the U.S. Army National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California, where a somewhet different and larger team of "geniuses" were charged (by 4 star General Paul Kern) with the task for "designing the next humvee." Result? A super badass concept vehicle. It is unclear, as of January 2007, whether there are any plans to show that episode or offer it on DVD.

CAST OF THE FIREFIGHTING EPISODE:
David Brin,Tim Flattery, David Stollery, Jim Tucci, and Andrew Thompson

CAST OF THE HUMVEE EPISODE:
David Brin,Tim Flattery, Adam Rogers, Alexander Rose, Noah Shachtman, David Stollery, Reiuchert von Wolfsheild

Produced by Mod3 Productions: http://mod3productions.com/
Danny Gold, Mathew Asner, Larry Herbst

==Links==
* '''2006-10-10''' [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/10/architechs-terrific-and-other-news.html ArchiTechs: terrific!... and other news]: Brin comments on the preview
* '''2006-10-11''' [http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/11/watch-david-brin-on-the-architechs-oct11-2006/ Watch David Brin on The ArchiTechs Oct.11, 2006]: announcement at Futurist.com
===Reference===
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783479/ IMDB]

The ArchiTECHS

2007-01-24T02:33:03Z

75.55.166.172: /* Overview */

==Overview==
[[The ArchiTECHS]] was a one-episode television show on The History Channel. Information is scarce at this point, but it appears that the channel may have been considering producing a series under the same name.

The show featured "five geniuses", including author [[David Brin]], TV legend and designer Dave Stollery and visionary artist Tim Flattery, "in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires."

Promotional literature for the show had this to say: "Five geniuses are challenged: innovate fire rescue and evacuation tools for skyscraper disasters... ''and do it in 48 hours!'' Watch a small team of designers and visionaries form a high-tech think tank, racing the clock to shape bold, over-the-horizon designs for the future. With unprecedented cooperation from [[New York, NY|New York]]'s regional fire departments, episode #1 culminates in a dramatic presentation to Former FDNY Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, one of the heroes of [[issuepedia:9/11|9/11]]..."

==Showings==
* '''Premiere''' (2006-10-11 23:00): Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 PM
* '''Repeat''' (2006-10-12 23:00): October 12 at 3 AM & October 14 at 11:00 AM

==Discussion==
* [http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?forumID=600000061&threadID=800014486 Architechs Show] thread on History Channel forums
** Note that a search of the History Channel web site ''will not'' find this page; [[WTF]]?

A DVD of the show appears to be ambiguously for sale on the History Channel (A&E) site at:
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=75873

Another Pilot Episode was filmed half a year earlier, at the U.S. Army National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California, where a somewhet different and larger team of "geniuses" were charged (by 4 star General Paul Kern) with the task for "designing the next humvee." Result? A super badass concept vehicle. It is unclear, as of January 2007, whether there are any plans to show that episode or offer it on DVD.

CAST OF THE FIREFIGHTING EPISODE:
David Brin,Tim Flattery, David Stollery, Jim Tucci, and Andrew Thompson

CAST OF THE HUMVEE EPISODE:
David Brin,Tim Flattery, Adam Rogers, Alexander Rose, Noah Shachtman, David Stollery, Reiuchert von Wolfsheild

Produced by Mod3 Productions: http://mod3productions.com/
Danny Gold, Mathew Asner, Larry Herbst

==Links==
* '''2006-10-10''' [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/10/architechs-terrific-and-other-news.html ArchiTechs: terrific!... and other news]: Brin comments on the preview
* '''2006-10-11''' [http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/11/watch-david-brin-on-the-architechs-oct11-2006/ Watch David Brin on The ArchiTechs Oct.11, 2006]: announcement at Futurist.com
===Reference===
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783479/ IMDB]

The ArchiTECHS

2007-01-24T02:31:54Z

75.55.166.172: /* Discussion */

==Overview==
[[The ArchiTECHS]] was a one-episode television show on The History Channel. Information is scarce at this point, but it appears that the channel may have been considering producing a series under the same name.

The show featured "five geniuses", including author [[David Brin]], "in a 48-hour quest to design a better way to escape and fight skyscraper fires."

Promotional literature for the show had this to say: "Five geniuses are challenged: innovate fire rescue and evacuation tools for skyscraper disasters... ''and do it in 48 hours!'' Watch a small team of designers and visionaries form a high-tech think tank, racing the clock to shape bold, over-the-horizon designs for the future. With unprecedented cooperation from [[New York, NY|New York]]'s regional fire departments, episode #1 culminates in a dramatic presentation to Former FDNY Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, one of the heroes of [[issuepedia:9/11|9/11]]..."
==Showings==
* '''Premiere''' (2006-10-11 23:00): Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 PM
* '''Repeat''' (2006-10-12 23:00): October 12 at 3 AM & October 14 at 11:00 AM

==Discussion==
* [http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?forumID=600000061&threadID=800014486 Architechs Show] thread on History Channel forums
** Note that a search of the History Channel web site ''will not'' find this page; [[WTF]]?

A DVD of the show appears to be ambiguously for sale on the History Channel (A&E) site at:
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=75873

Another Pilot Episode was filmed half a year earlier, at the U.S. Army National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California, where a somewhet different and larger team of "geniuses" were charged (by 4 star General Paul Kern) with the task for "designing the next humvee." Result? A super badass concept vehicle. It is unclear, as of January 2007, whether there are any plans to show that episode or offer it on DVD.

CAST OF THE FIREFIGHTING EPISODE:
David Brin,Tim Flattery, David Stollery, Jim Tucci, and Andrew Thompson

CAST OF THE HUMVEE EPISODE:
David Brin,Tim Flattery, Adam Rogers, Alexander Rose, Noah Shachtman, David Stollery, Reiuchert von Wolfsheild

Produced by Mod3 Productions: http://mod3productions.com/
Danny Gold, Mathew Asner, Larry Herbst

==Links==
* '''2006-10-10''' [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/10/architechs-terrific-and-other-news.html ArchiTechs: terrific!... and other news]: Brin comments on the preview
* '''2006-10-11''' [http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/11/watch-david-brin-on-the-architechs-oct11-2006/ Watch David Brin on The ArchiTechs Oct.11, 2006]: announcement at Futurist.com
===Reference===
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783479/ IMDB]