Technobiophilia

Online booking available for my rescheduled Professorial Lecture

Online booking is now available for my rescheduled Professorial Lecture at 6.00pm on Thursday 26th April 2012. Admission is free and booking is here.

Name change

The title of this blog and book has evolved over the years but now I have settled on Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace. This means a new url too. The old one www.wildsurmise.com still works but www.technobiophilia.com can also be used too.

Draft book jacket 'Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace'

I'm delighted to share this first draft of the jacket for my book, scheduled for early 2013. I think it's beautiful. 

My Professorial Lecture: new date Thursday 26 April 2012

I now have a new date for my Professorial Lecture, postponed from last November. It will take place at 6pm on Thursday 26 April 2012. Tea and coffee are usually available from about 5.30, the lecture lasts an hour, and then refreshments are provided afterwards.

People who had booked for the previous date have, I think, already been re-invited. It's not showing on the DMU website yet but you can watch for it here or email them. The title and abstract are the same:

The Future of Cyberspace

The act of entering cyberspace was, along with the entering of outer space, one of the most profound experiences of the twentieth century. In 1969, humans landed first ‘on’ the moon (July), and then ‘in’ cyberspace (September) with the connection of the first two nodes of the internet. Today the mountains of the Moon remain neglected and unexplored, but cyberspace has evolved into a deeply familiar habitat whose geography has been shaped by those who built and used it. This lecture will explore the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth, and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.