Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Gerry Ryan

July 23rd, 2010 in Category: Star Trek, Teleportation

I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Gerry Ryan on April 30, 2010, Ireland's premier radio and television broadcaster. On June 1, 2005, I was interviewed for 45 minutes by Gerry on the Gerry Ryan Show - Ireland's most popular FM radio programme - about my book "Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance."
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The Star Trekking of Physics

April 15th, 2010 in Category: Star Trek, Teleportation

In spite of the proliferation of exhilarated technoculture and its multidisciplinary, wired self-image, there remain some straightlaced, uncool tendencies within the techno-elite which boil over at the thought of all this openness to the humanities and the soft.
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How the Transporter Really Works

April 13th, 2010 in Category: Teleportation

Over the decades, the copious science fictional "explanations" of how Star Trek's beaming technology really works, or might some- day be able to work, have undergone discernable paradigm shifts.
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“The Enemy Within”

April 13th, 2010 in Category: Captain Kirk, Teleportation, The Original Series

Captain Kirk, Lt. Sulu, Geological Technician Fisher, and three other Enterprise crew members are approaching the end of a routine, one-day geological survey and specimen gathering mission on the planet Alpha 177.