Episode 14 - Sam Hall (Poul Anderson)
Information IS power
Episode Connections
Films. Raiders of the Lost Ark. No Way Out. Enemy of the State. Minority Report. Running Man. Gattaca.
TV episodes, series. X-Files.
Music. Johnny Cash, “Sam Hall.”
Ideas. Authoritarian societies. Data-driven society. Control of data, control of information. Mythology of the centralized information state and the technical priesthood.
Whoa - Hmmm - WTF. Bill says hmmm + whoa. Dan say whoa + hmmm. Sadly, it is too plausible for WTF.
Previous episode: J.G. Ballard, “The Voices of Time”
Next episode: Cyril Cornbluth, “The Marching Morons”
Music Credit: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Link: Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Films. Raiders of the Lost Ark. No Way Out. Enemy of the State. Minority Report. Running Man. Gattaca.
TV episodes, series. X-Files.
Music. Johnny Cash, “Sam Hall.”
Ideas. Authoritarian societies. Data-driven society. Control of data, control of information. Mythology of the centralized information state and the technical priesthood.
Whoa - Hmmm - WTF. Bill says hmmm + whoa. Dan say whoa + hmmm. Sadly, it is too plausible for WTF.
Previous episode: J.G. Ballard, “The Voices of Time”
Next episode: Cyril Cornbluth, “The Marching Morons”
Music Credit: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Link: Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/