This week's Bill Moyers NOW - New Year, New Ideas

[Wonk]

http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/index.html

At the onset of a New Year, many of you may be wondering: what lies in the days ahead? David Brancaccio talks to Andrew Zolli, who, based on cultural, design and technological trends, advises companies about what the future may hold for them and how they can profit from it. At POPULAR SCIENCE magazine, Zolli holds the title Futurist in Residence. Exploring everything from the branding of corporations to human cloning, Zolli calls for a national conversation to form a national vision of the future and the real concerns we should be having in a society that sees things in a now-only light. "We live in a society in which-innovation and consumption are so tightly tied together in our consumer economy, that politics becomes another thing that we consume," says Zolli, "And so politicians are constantly looking not at a long-term future, but they're looking at relatively short-term futures."
http://www.pbs.org/now/society/zolli.html

We’ve heard the word evil mentioned often these days in politics. We are, after all, at war. But, how do we recognize the face of evil? As the terrorists struck on 9/11, philosopher and author Susan Neiman was putting the finishing touches on her book, EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. Bill Moyers speaks with Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. Neiman discusses how people and societies deal with present and past atrocities. Says Neiman, "The biggest mistake that people make in talking about evil is to think that it only has one form or one face."
http://www.pbs.org/now/society/neiman.html

http://www.pbs.org/now/society/newyear.html
In the first broadcast of 2004, NOW takes a look at some new ideas and the evolution of a very old one. Bill Moyers talks with Susan Neiman, author of EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT, about evil in the post-9/11 world and about how people and societies deal with present and past atrocities or "acts of evil". David Brancaccio talks with Andrew Zolli about the science and philosophy of futurism. Learn more about these two thinkers and explore other interesting ideas from the links below.

http://www.pbs.org/now/society/evil.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/society/futurism.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/booklist.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/creativity.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/society/actionideas.html

Check your local listings.
http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html

[onecitizen]

1. I love Bill Moyers.........

I love Bill Moyers, I love Bill Moyers. I really really do!:loveya:

[ming]

2. Video online?

Bill Moyers is great. I've loved him since his World of Ideas series in the late 80s. The problem is, I don't have television reception where I live now (and I'm not about to let Time-Warner rape me for the privilege of 76 channels of utter crap + 2 or 3 I actually enjoy).

Do the Now shows ever get posted to their website in streaming video like they do with some Frontline and Nova episodes? I've tried looking around the Now site, but I swear, that has to be one of the most unintuitive sites to navigate.

And hey, while I am at it, does anyone know of other good shows that are out there as streaming video other than perhaps C-SPAN? Thanks.

[Don Claybrook]

3. Yes, I think so

I think NOW does streaming video a few days after the broadcast. If not, look at this thread later tonight or tomorrow. Wonk usually posts the mp3's and sometimes the .mov files of the broadcast, although I suppose that's at his discretion and for him to say.

As for other programs available online, check www.democracynow.org. They make their daily program available, either live or a few hours after the fact, not sure.

Finally, if you're into Noam Chomsky, go to www.zmag.org. They have several speeches archived.

[Wonk]

4. Time zone kick

[proud patriot]

5. Shoot I missed it

x(

[Wonk]

6. Here you go

Andrew Zolli mp3, 5 M
quicktime, 71 M

Susan Neiman mp3, 6 M
quicktime, 85 M

There will be RealPlayer versions up on the PBS website in a day or three...