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Knotty Geeks Episode 03 - From China, through the cloud, and into space


In this episode, we take a trip from the Chinese government, through the promise and peril of cloud computing, and finally find liberation through YouTube and a trip into Earth orbit.

List of URLs referenced in this episode:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081002-skype-security-flub-leads-... - China monitoring Skype
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/09/avalanche.html - Author Charles Stross says it is getting harder to write near-future SF
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080930-why-stallman-is-wrong-when... - Ars Technica dismisses Richard Stallman's criticism of cloud computing
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU - An anthropologist reports on YouTube
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxHKgQyGx0 - A brilliant mashup exploring copyright issues in a modern world
http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/federated_f8.swf?autoStart=false&cdnU... - It's a weird URL, but this should work. Full 10 minute launch from the ground into space of SpaceX's rocket.


30:37 minutes (28.04 MB)