Yuri’s Night in Second Life launches with a special appearance by novelist, futurist and gadfly David Brin! Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon hosts David in an open discussion event in the Central Nexus in Extropia Core, from 1 to 2:30 PM Pacific Time, April 12.

David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages.

His 1989 ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web*. A 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on The Postman.

Brin serves on advisory committees dealing with subjects as diverse as national defense and homeland security, astronomy and space exploration, SETI and nanotechnology, future/prediction and philanthropy. His non-fiction book - The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? - deals with secrecy in the modern world. It won the Freedom of Speech Prize from the American Library Association.

As a speaker and on television, David Brin shares unique insights - serious and humorous - about ways that changing technology may affect our future lives. Brin lives in San Diego County with his wife, three children, and a hundred very demanding trees.

• Where: Central Nexus in Extropia Core
• When: 12 April 2008 - 12 April 2008
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• Link: http://zones.extropiacore.net/yurisnight/index.php
• Submitted by: Sophrosyne Stenvaag
• Submitted: 06 Apr 08