January 20, 2012. I've just stopped writing "2011" on my checks, so I must have accepted it's 2012. Much is going on, with seven talks scheduled for the spring and more in the works. After a magazine-publishing hiatus, I'm back in the game with a story in New Scientist titled "The Ascent of Life" (web version: One-way evolution: The ladder of life makes a comeback.) I have a Wired story on prosthetic arms in the works for the April 2012 issue, and am reading tons of books on psychology, anthropology, evolution, and astrobiology to spin up for a proposal for my third book.
December 3, 2011. I wrote up a blog entry about the pepper-spraying at UC Davis and it's been a huge hit, with 55,000 page views so far. And here's a video of me giving a talk at the International Neuroethics Society in Washington D.C. in this month. This was a very different talk from the ones I usually give; I was laying out some ideas I've been considering for my third book.
October 29, 2011. I'm back from two weeks in France and Italy! My wife and I first traveled to the Women's Forum in Deauville, France, where I was on a panel discussion with Toddi Gutner and Mayana Zatz. (Video here; I start at 47 minutes in.)
Then we visited Rome, Florence, and Venice as tourists, spending 3-4 days in each city. I put up about 70 pictures on my Facebook account; feel free to friend me to see them. Then we went to the italian Science Festival in Genoa, where I gave a talk (dubbed in Italian, here) and did a short video interview afterward (in English, here.) We had a great time and are very grateful to our French and Italian hosts for making this trip possible.
Also, I was interviewed by the Italian newspaper La Stampa. The story's titled Mi presento, sono un cyborg.
July 20, 2011. I've just gotten back from a hugely fun trip to Russia to give a talk at the Strelka Institute, a hip young Russian institute for the study of architecture and culture. I talked, of course, about the Russian edition of WORLD WIDE MIND. Afterward I was interviewed on a Russian Internet-based TV show. I've posted dozens of pictures I took of Moscow and St. Petersburg on my Facebook account (friend me to see them.)
June 29, 2011. I was interviewed on PBS Newshour's story on bionic body parts last night. I'm on from minute 7:40 to 8:30. The auto-captions sort of work, and there's a link to a transcript. It was fun to watch myself, but even more fun to watch my wife Tory onscreen with me. There's a short clip of us talking in the kitchen.
June 18, 2011. The Irish Times posted an interview with me today. "Brain-to-brain communication is the standard stuff of science fiction, but Chorost attempts to outline the engineering path towards feasibly realising this much-fantasised communicative ability and, more importantly, he explains how it could deepen human communication. Yes, there are several science bits that you can’t really skip, but the surprising thing is that, even to this non-techie, Chorost makes it so readable and convincing." Read the article.
May 16, 2011. I was interviewed on Dr. Kiki's Science Hour last week; no cats stole the show this time. Also, Civil Engineering published a nice review of WORLD WIDE MIND in their May 2011 issue.
May 9, 2011: I was interviewed by The Calcalist, an Israeli site attached to Yediot Aharonot. It's in Hebrew, but Google can sort of translate it. They say I look like Woody Allen. Really?
May 3, 2011: Here's the Track180 interview with me where our cat Harper totally, totally stole the show. No one's even going to listen to me talking in this one.
April 25, 2011: Here's a fun video of a 20-min Learning Annex lecture I recently recorded, on what kinds of mind-reading are possible with current technology. There's a followup 15-minute lecture in which I talk about what might be possible in the future. These short courses shows off some of the ideas of WORLD WIDE MIND. The first one's free; I think you have to pay 99 cents to watch the second.
April 25, 2011. My author video is now captioned in Italian, as well as English and German. Many thanks to Roberta Ranzani for doing the Italian translation. (I've sent signed copies of either REBUILT or WORLD WIDE MIND to people who do nice things for me, like translate my author video.)
April 21, 2011. New blog entry: "Are We Alone in the Universe?" Surveying a few recent books on the search for extraterrestrial life.
April 10, 2011. Listen to me on Wisconsin Public Radio's show "To the Best of Our Knowledge." My segment runs from 28:38 to 39:00. To listen, click here. For a description of the episode, click here.
March 28, 2011. SEED Magazine has just published Chapter 1 of WORLD WIDE MIND. Read it here.
March 22, 2011. I had an enjoyable conversation with Andres Martinez of the New America Foundation yesterday. See the archived webcast.
March 12, 2011: Five enthusiastic reviews of WORLD WIDE MIND: New York Times, New Scientist, Big Think, The L Magazine. Appletell. See them here.
March 1, 2011. Three interviews with me have just come out. See the bottom of my bio page for links to them.
February 28, 2011. Natalie Valentina Cassetti very kindly captioned my author video in German. See the German-captioned video here.
Here's the author video for WORLD WIDE MIND.
Videos
My author video for WORLD WIDE MIND, February 2011.
BookTV, July 11, 2005. This is a book reading I gave in Seattle.
This is a talk I gave at Google, July 11, 2008.
The Exploratorium. This is an educational segment I filmed to explain how cochlear implants work.
Technology Review, Winter 2007. This is a video where I explain how fully implantable hearing aids work. I filmed this to accompany an article I wrote for Technology Review.
Interview with Robert Bloomfield, a professor at Cornell, in Metanomics at Second Life, December 6, 2010.
Audio
Michael Krasny’s Forum, June 23, 2005.
Weekend Edition, July 10, 2005.
Talk of the Nation, October 12, 2006.