Evolutionary Enlightenment's interview with Tom

WEBCAST: Changing the World from the Inside Out, Evolutionary Enlightenment Podcast, October 18, 2008

Tom's part starts at 20 minutes in and continues past the commercial and interviewer break at about 43 minutes (so don't shut it off at that point). The interview resumes at about 52:30 (if you don't want to listen to the break). The whole thing ends at 1:07:00, so you're looking at about 37.5 minutes for the whole listen if you skip the middle.

Something that's nice about this interview is that Tom really has time to talk. The interviewer isn't constantly cutting him off like a radio show host. To me, that makes for a more personal interview.

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Comments

[farhad]

for the first time,i realize a strong sense of imagenative and spiritual (out of this world) powers in your believes,that are dearrived not from what is happening today as a continuation of human's evolution and it's knowldge(& rules) based on that realities.rather,a futurestic modle(redefination of capitalism)with middle class in its central core through an execptional power (people) intrigrating the world through globalization(economic conectivity),of course at mind'swill,done well,projecting to solve hummanity's problems with the helpof bio-technology in the next century.A siencefiction perfect model that only the world has to come to realization.Dr Barnett,no insults intended,but that's what i understand from your interview,i hope youengage my views.

[Tom Barnett]

Decent summary.

But lots of ground to cover between here and 2050.

[TEJ]

I've seen the brief and sat at a table with you in a non-PPT format, but I've never seen or heard you so . . . relaxed. Digging the trippy music they play on the breaks? Seriously, appreciate the introspection and reflection found here. You've got seemingly endless room to expound in an uninterrupted fashion, even better than, say, NPR interview. Significant advantage of podcasting.

[Gerry]

TEJ has a good point. Perhaps you might want to throw in an occasional blogcast into the blog.

[Anonymous]

we can do audio anytime. i think Tom would like that format.

[Tom Barnett]

I would, but I really feel the need of some discipline, as in, an interviewer.

I need something to respond to, otherwise it just feels masturbatory.



Maybe we figure out how to do the following: let select blog readers basically interview me over the phone on whatever subjects they want (written works, current events, whatever) and then we post those.

That I would be willing to do, say, on a regular basis.

What would someone need? On one end of the phone or the other, you'd need the ability to tape digitally, which isn't hard. I have two Olympics and I think you can buy a cord so they can tap directly into the phone.

Other route: I assume this could be done over the web? I mean, my Macs can visually and audio-tape me. Are there online programs that allow such capture between interviewer and interviewee?

Could we have a regular roundtable of anybody asks over a couple of hours and capture that? Or too complicated by too many nodes?

This is stuff to be looked into by whoever is enterprising enough.

Why I would be interested in doing this now?

Good way to promote book.

I was really relaxed in that venue. Of course, I had just finished talking non-stop for about 6 hours in front of various audiences and was processing a nasty cold, so that can slow down your RPMs.

And no, I had no sense of any "music." We just taped straight in the Green Room. All that was added later. But there was a relaxed vibe in the place, so that helped--very loving as opposed to the usual butt-sniffing/growling that goes on in such rooms.

But here's what I liked best: it was good practice for the next brief, now being built. I build the oral part of the presentation simply by skimming the best from such interactions, and introspective interviews are marvelous generators of material. So I'd be especially interested in this sort of thing in coming weeks and months, because it'd be like training camp for the coming PR effort and new brief.

[Albert Klamt]

Excellent interview. As avid reader of WIE I see new perspectives for bringing Toms framework/work-in-progress to cicil society.

Interview with Alex Steffen from worldchanging.org too -some years ago -was a step in this direction.