FastForward Radio

By | April 27, 2008

Sunday night Phil Bowermaster, Stephen Gordon, and Michael Darling spoke live with author and futurist Jim Elvidge. Elvidge is a Cornell-educated entrepreneur and inventor who holds four patents in digital signal processing. His love of music inspired him to develop one of the first PC-based digital music samplers and to co-found RadioAMP, which was the first private-label online streaming radio company. In recent years he has turned his attention to the ultimate question of existence and, drawing on a broad and eclectic base of knowledge and interests, has come up with a unique explanation for…pretty much everything.

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As you might imagine his book, The Universe – Solved, covers a lot of scientific and philosophical ground. A big topic of discussion was whether we live in a computer simulation. If so, are there Easter Eggs in the cosmos?

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  • Karl Hallowell

    I don’t know if I’m too late for the part about the Easter egg hunt, but what would you look for? I imagine “magic” as practiced in a large variety of fantasy novels (eg, I wiggle my fingers mysteriously and things burn) could be a rather blatant Easter egg.

  • Phil Bowermaster

    Hey Karl –

    It’s never too late to listen to an archived podcast! Elvidge suggets that paranormal phenomena and extreme coincidences may be examples of easter eggs.