Month: April 2013

Thanks to Joe Teehan for having me on “The Joe Show” to talk about the future union of humans and computers, and about Upload.  You can catch the interview on the KGMI-AM website (see “The Joe Show for 4/22/13“) or listen to the MP3 here, trimmed down to just my segment.

In doing these radio interviews, I find myself gradually fleshing out my ability to talk about ideas and concerns that flopped around in my head through the many years of writing Upload.  I finally touched on one issue in particular that’s important to me, which could be in its early stages already:

We as a species have a role as caretakers of the planet, and as we isolate ourselves from the planet through a layer of virtual existence, we lose touch with that.  We could become more prone than ever to abusing the world that made it all possible.

I just did a live radio interview on Maritime Morning Weekend Edition on News 95.7, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This one was the most fun yet.  Thanks so much to Scott Simpson for doing such a great job and taking the conversation in so many fascinating directions!

You can listen to the audio on the News 95.7 website (it starts about half way through the hour), or listen to the MP3 here, which I’ve edited to contain only the relevant portion of the show.

I did my first live interview on Thursday, with Pamela McCall of “Victoria’s News Authority”, on Cfax1070. I even had a caller, a man who works in computer security and was curious about the potential of someone maliciously hacking a computer-based brain. If you’re curious, too, you can listen to the archived copy — my segment starts at 32:32 here on the CFAX website:

http://www.cfax1070.com/Media/CFAX-Podcasts/CFAX-Afternoons/April-18,-2013-10am

Thanks to Jason Peffley for having me on the FuriousFanBoys.com podcast:

http://furiousfanboys.com/2013/04/book-review-upload-by-mark-mcclelland/

It’s a long interview, nearly 27 minutes, covering a wide range of topics, mostly surrounding the book: ethical issues of uploading; how soon could it happen; possible “political” complications; what sort of computing changes would be required.

For those who’ve mentioned they’d love a sequel, I reveal some of my early thoughts on what I have in mind for a follow-up to Upload. I also talk a bit about the children’s book I’ve had stewing. I’m still on the fence about which to focus on first.

If you want to know what I sound like when I’m totally faking my way through an interview, listen to the part about Bitcoin.