When Janis Joplin met Raquel Welch on the Dick Cavett Show (1970)
I don't think I've ever seen an interview with Janis Joplin, she seems like such a quiet, beautiful little soul.
1964 BBC Clip Proves Plan To End Humanity
Clarke really did say this on a BBC Horizon segment filmed at the 1964 New York World’s Fair using almost exactly the “ end of biological evolution ” framing. 1964 BBC Clip Proves Plan To End Humanity In that broadcast he argues that “organic or biological evolution has about come to its end” and that humanity is entering “inorganic or mechanical evolution,” which would be “thousands of times swifter,” because machines (the “remote descendants of today’s computers”) would eventually “start to think” and “outthink their makers.” In the 1964 BBC Horizon program “ The Knowledge Explosion ,” filmed at the New York World’s Fair, Arthur C. Clarke makes a specific, on-the-record argument that human “organic or biological evolution has about come to its end” and that the next major evolutionary phase would be “inorganic or mechanical evolution,” which he says would be “thousands of times swifter” because it would be driven by machines “the remote descendants of...
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