Talking Internet and PCs 30 years ago-Durk Pearson-Life Extension

[Joe234]

Talking Internet and PCs 30 years ago-Durk Pearson


Part 1

Talking Internet and PCs Part 2

Part 3

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I watched Durk years ago on Merv. He was a pioneer of anti-oxidants vitamins
which I still take.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durk_Pearson

Durk Pearson was born in 1943 and grew up on a farm in Illinois. He was reading by the age of four, and decided to become a scientist at that early age. While a student at MIT, he was a member of the MIT Science Fiction Society and one of the writers for the early underground comic God Comics. He took a triple major at MIT in physics, biology, and psychology, with a triple minor in electrical engineering, computer science, and chemistry, graduating with a B.S. in physics in 1965. His score on the Graduate Record Exam was the highest in the nation for that year. Durk has patents in the area of oil shale and tar sands recovery, lasers, holography, supplement formulations. He worked on all of the manned aerospace programs from Project Gemini to the Space Shuttle and won numerous awards, including an award from the International Society for Testing and Failure Analysis (a professional organization) for his penetrating quality control and safety analysis. He wrote much of the safety manual for the Materials and Processing Laboratory on the Shuttle.

Publications

Durk co-author of Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach (ISBN 0-446-51229-X, Warner Books, 1982), The Life Extension Companion (Warner Books), The Life Extension Weight Loss Manual, and Freedom of Informed Choice: FDA v. Nutrient Supplements, (Common Sense Press, 1993). He and Sandy Shaw have co-authored numerous articles on Life extension, cognitive enhancement, Anti-aging, Weight loss, and other aspects of nutrition and produced the Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw Life Extension News which can be downloaded at no charge from Life-Enhancement.

Media Appearances

Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw have appeared on over 300 television programs, including several appearances on Larry King Live. They have appeared in many TV documentaries about aging, including two by the BBC, one by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and even on Japanese TV. During the period of 1978 to 1986, they appeared over 30 times on The Merv Griffin Show, including the final "goodbye" program. With Merv's permission, Durk once offered a selected reading list of life extension literature for laypersons on one of the shows. Over 100,000 people wrote in to request copies of the list. Never before had a TV show caused such a viewer response and The Merv Griffin Show sent out a press release including a photo of Durk buried up to his neck in mail bags.

Durk and Sandy Shaw have been featured in interviews and articles in The Wall Street Journal (a front page story on them), Omni (magazine), Penthouse (magazine), Playgirl, Forbes, Newsweek, People (magazine), US Weekly, Fit, The American Druggist, PSA Magazine, Longevity, Men's Journal, as well as magazines in France, Germany, and Japan.
[edit] Television, Film, and Video

Durk and Sandy Shaw wrote, designed the stunts, and acted as technical advisors for an episode of The Wonderful World of Disney, which aired in 1978, called "Black Holes, Monsters That Eat Space and Time."

They acted as scientific and technical advisors and received screen credits for the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox (film), designing special effects for all the scenes after Clint got into the Firefox cockpit.

They also acted as scientific and technical advisors and received screen credits for Douglas Trumbull's movie Brainstorm (1983 film), starring Natalie Wood.

In 1988, Durk and Sandy Shaw released "Life Extension, the Video," produced by Ray Schwartz. The video was designed to explain to the layperson some of the material from all three of their best-selling books on aging, health, weight-loss, and nutrition.

Also in 1988, they co-authored with Steve Sharon The Dead Pool, a high-tech thriller, which was sold to Warner Bros. and made into a popular Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry movie. Durk and Sandy Shaw also have a cameo appearance in the funeral scene.

Life Extension
http://www.lef.org/

[WickedKitchen]

It just goes to show how far we have come, but more importantly how much faster technology grows than we even know.

It takes so long for these things to become widespread but they were developed years, even decades, before they become mainstream. Perhaps our intelligence is not really at the level we think it is.

[truthwolf1]

I think you first need the vision and then the creation. Not the other way around.

[sgreger1]

I think you first need the vision and then the creation. Not the other way around.

That's what sci-fi is for!

[Langdell]

For some really eerie predictions about things that sound a lot like what we now know as the Internet, check out the 1909 story "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster and the 1946 story "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster.

[snusgetter]

For some really eerie predictions about things that sound a lot like what we now know as the Internet, check out the 1909 story "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster and the 1956 story "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster.

If you need something (very short) to read right away,
"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster is available as a free download:
http://manybooks.net/titles/forstere...ine_stops.html
(hope to find the time soon since it looks pretty interesting)

"A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster -- couldn't find any freebie (Copyright renewed in 2005)

[c.nash]

That's awesome. Great watch.

[sgreger1]

If you need something (very short) to read right away,
"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster is available as a free download:
http://manybooks.net/titles/forstere...ine_stops.html
(hope to find the time soon since it looks pretty interesting)

"A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster -- couldn't find any freebie (Copyright renewed in 2005)

Reading this short story right now, about 8 pages in.

As I am reading this, I get a call. It is from our new crappy training (kinda) program thing. Some computer calls me once every day or so and gives me some message about how to work better or do something better in work comp claims, and it sounds like a computer talking too, completely devoid of emotion, it's only purpose to convey a message to a mass audience via electronics for training purposes. I then thought, F***, I am living in this story.

[snusgetter]

I am living in this story.

Doesn't get any better than this --- don'tcha think!!

As unique as we think our situations are, there are many more similar ones out there in the Twilight Zone...

[sgreger1]

Okay so I just figured out that the iBooks app for Ipad has the complete database of Project Gutenberg available all for free. My iPad now holds every classic work of literature, all the way from meditations, to plato and the saying of confucius, all the way to the communist manifesto, huck finn and Isaac Asimov's "The Time Machine". I LOVE THE FUTURE! I have got a lot of reading to do.