Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Sawyer

In this episode, Cole sits down with Robert Sawyer, the Creative Director of Experiential Marketing at Outside. They dive deep into the concept of marketing as a laboratory and how it can be a powerful tool in forging new models for outdoor gatherings. Robert shares insights from the inaugural Outside Festival, revealing the creative processes and challenges behind this innovative event.   Key Topics Covered: Marketing as a Laboratory: Robert discusses how marketing can be used as a space for experimentation, risk-taking, and innovation, particularly in the outdoor industry. The Power of Outdoor Gatherings: The episode explores the transformative impact of the Outside Festival, not just as an event, but as a movement to reconnect people with nature. Cultural Pain Points: Robert highlights the growing issues of loneliness and disconnection in modern society, and how outdoor experiences can serve as a remedy. Creating Magic Through Community: Discover the magic formula of "Nature + Community = Magic," and how it guided the creative direction of the festival. Behind the Scenes: Robert provides a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges and successes of organizing a large-scale outdoor event, including critical feedback and the lessons learned. The Role of Joy in the Outdoors: The importance of joy as a motivator for getting people outside and how it influences the creative strategy for future events. Learn More About the Outside Festival: Website: Outside Festival   About the Backcountry Marketing Podcast  This podcast is produced by Port Side Productions. We're a video production outfit that believes great marketing is great storytelling and after 150+ podcast episodes with marketing pros and 9 years of producing commercials and documentaries outside, we've noticed a few things about what it takes to create video work that makes an impact. If you need help bringing your next video project to life, check out our website to learn more. If not, head over to the podcast website for more details, show notes, transcripts, recommended book readings, and other resources:  

May 5: Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Robert Sawyer, Home Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, NC, Gospel Lesson: John 15: 9-17

George Noory and futurist Robert Sawyer discuss the frontiers of technology and artificial intelligence, how AI continues to learn and advance so quickly, and how humans are losing their abilities to retain knowledge and complete tasks due to our overdependence on technology.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's guests: Abe Silverman, Manager for Public Affairs for Alberta – B'nai Brith Canada Michael Kempa – Associate Professor of Criminology – University of Ottawa – Focused on politics of Security and Policing Stewart Bell, National Online and Investigative Journalist – Global News Robert J. Sawyer – Hugo Award-winning Science-Fiction writer from Toronto / Author - "The Downloaded" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

March 10, 2024: Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Robert Sawyer, Home Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, NC. Gospel Lesson: John 3: 14-21

April 21, 2024: Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Robert Sawyer, Home Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, NC. Gospel Lesson: John 10: 11-18

March 3, 2024, sermon by the Rev. Robert Sawyer, former pastor of Home Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, NC. Gospel Lesson: John 2:13-22

Dec. 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m.: Rev. Robert Sawyer, guest preacher and former pastor, Home Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, NC

Racial injustice on the high seas and in the courts plays out in a 1905 mass murder on a cargo ship, the Harry A. Berwind. Captain ER Rumill and three other crew members, all but one of them white, are killed, leaving just black crew members Henry Scott, Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer to explain. […]

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back best selling & award winning author; Robert  J Sawyer! Science fiction writer and futurist Robert J. Sawyer is a member of the Order of Canada, he lives in Mississauga, Ontario (just outside Toronto). Rob is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world's top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award  and he's the first author in thirty years to receive a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award.  In June 2016, Rob was inducted into the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the Canadian government. The Oppenheimer Alternative -On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit history…with a twist. While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion—the mechanism that powers the sun. Teller's research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system—including Earth. As the war ends with the use of fission bombs against Japan, Oppenheimer's team, plus Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, stay together—the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century racing against time to save our future.   Robert has been a judge in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest since 2005 as one of the many ways he pays it forward. This show was recorded earlier this year but was delayed due totechnical difficulties.

George Noory and author Robert Sawyer discuss his research into physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb in World War II, how he changed his opinion on the weapon after seeing the destruction of Hiroshima, and his disagreements with other scientists who wanted to create even more powerful bombs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 368."Mayor of Kingstown"Actor: Hamish Allan-Headley.Absolutely loved my conversation with Hamish. He is a highly trained actor who you can currently find on "Mayor of Kingstown" as SWAT leader, enforcer and badass Robert Sawyer.We talk about the training in Hamish's career, how fantastic the content is on Paramount, Jeremy Renner, we dissect his character Robert Sawyer, talk some Taylor Sheridan, the cast of "Mayor of Kingstown" and the current happenings of "Mayor of Kingstown" we did a lot in 30 minutes!Welcome the very kind and talented, Hamish Allan-Headley.Monday Morning Critic: Instagram, TiKTok, YouTube and Facebook.Twitter:@mdmcriticwww.imdb.com/title/tt12597724/www.mmcpodcast.comContact:  mondaymorningcritic@gmail.com

Recently the discussion of Artificial Intelligence has entered into the mainstream with a plethora of new apps that change literally everything. Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Chat GPT, Descript, the list is endless. Recently I shared a post on facebook that was largely positive in the way it portrayed Artificial Intelligence. I encountered a significant backlash and in the process I learned a lot about the different argument for and against AI.   We have talked to a variety of amazing guests on the reality revolution on AI including Robert Sawyer, Rizwan Virk, Dr. Ervin Laszlo and Cynthia Sue Larson. Here I gathered clips from those interviews and share my thoughts on many of the different topics related to this issue. AI could be leading us to an assured apocalypse as well as an incredible heaven. Both possibilities are at play and I share the thoughts of many of the people in the reality revolution group on this subject. What are your thoughts on AI? Welcome To The Reality Revolution Buy My Art - Unique Sigil Magic and Energy Activation Through Flow Art and Voyages Through Space and Imagination. https://www.newearth.art/ BUY MY BOOK! https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Revolution-Mind-Blowing-Movement-Hack/dp/154450618X/ Listen to my book on audible https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Reality-Revolution-Audiobook/B087LV1R5V The New Earth Activation trainings - Immerse yourself in 12 hours of content focused on the new earth with channeling, meditations, advanced training and access to the new earth https://realityrevolutioncon.com/newearth Alternate Universe Reality Activation  get full access to new meditations, new lectures, recordings from the reality con and the 90 day AURA meditation schedulehttps://realityrevolutionlive.com/aura45338118  Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/The-Reality-Revolution-Podcast-Hosted-By-Brian-Scott-102555575116999 Join our Facebook group The Reality Revolution https://www.facebook.com/groups/523814491927119  For all episodes of the Reality Revolution – https://www.therealityrevolution.com Subscribe to my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgXHr5S3oF0qetPfqxJfSw Follow Us on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRealityRevolution/ Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_reality_revolution/ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/mediaprime Follow me on MeWe https://mewe.com/i/brianscott71 Join our reality revolution group on twitter https://twitter.com/i/communities/1509405555579777024 Music by Mettaverseconvergencepure love emanationpure love energya love so vastlove becomes us963hz a thousand petals. 

A mysterious spy who wrote about the most captivatingly infamous intellectual of the time, Christopher Marlowe is among the most accomplished and enigmatic of the Elizabethan playwrights. Joining us today is Dr. Robert Sawyer, professor in the department of literature and language at East Tennessee State University. Professor Sawyer's is the author of Shakespeare Between the World Wars, and Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalry. Recommended Reading:Doctor Faustus Additional Readings:A play is best learned when watched, you can find out the Review on Shakespeare's Globe's Doctor Faustus or go to a theater with a friend.This podcast is sponsored by Riverside, the most efficient platform for video recording and editing for podcasters.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

From his service in the United States Marine Corps to Partner at Sikich, Robert Sawyer is constantly retooling his leadership skills. He credits this with his ability to build resiliency and become a “reader of people.” What employee doesn't want to be better understood? Listen in as Robert shares how we can all be more effective in our leadership.

In this edition of SMBCP, Host Karl sits down with Robert Sawyer and Daniel Daraban to discuss Bitdefender's GravityZone XDR (extended detection and response).  Find out what GravityZone XDR can do for your MSP business.  Robert Sawyer is the director of product marketing for cloud workload security and managed detection and response at Bitdefender. Prior to Bitdefender, he led product marketing for integration and applications at IBM as part of its newly launched automation division. He also led teams in hybrid cloud, tracing his roots back through BPM and SOA, and worked at Rackspace Technology, helping lead marketing for a newly launched managed security service offering. He's been in the IT space for over 20 years and started his career in software development, working on industry solutions in healthcare and life sciences and media and entertainment. As a Director of Product Management at Bitdefender, Daniel Daraban manages the Bitdefender Business Solutions Group flagship product lines: EDR and XDR. Together with his team, they are on a mission to solve real-world customer encountered issues. Eager to understand day-to-day workflows and how that is impacting the products he manages, Daniel enjoys interacting with customers, prospects and industry analysts to gain valuable feedback. Outside of work you will find him in his tool shed working on various DYI projects, playing around with Arduinos, or riding some of the world's craziest rollercoasters. Resources and Links: XDR for MSPs Datasheet: https://www.bitdefender.com/content/dam/bitdefender/business/products/msp/Bitdefender-XDR-for-MSP-Datasheet-en.pdf  XDR for MSP launch blog: https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/how-xdr-can-transform-msp-cybersecurity   Sponsor Memo: PCMatic  PC Matic — Endpoint Security built on a zero trust/default deny foundation Finally - a light weight, simple to deploy & easy to manage approach to application allowlisting. The perfect compliment to your current security stack. No minimums and no annual contracts. Find out more about PC Matic by  visiting PCMatic.com/MSP today.      :-)    

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This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Tuesday, November 16th. Tuesday will offer a break from our recent cold trend. According to the National Weather Service we can expect mostly sunny skies with a high near 58 degrees in the Cedar Rapids area. On Tuesday night it will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 40 degrees. Enjoy it while it lasts, however, as the rest of the week after Wednesday looks like it will be returning to late November reality. An Iowa City man was sentenced to 60-years in prison Monday for killing a man and injuring several others when he attempted to kill himself by driving the wrong way on Interstate 80 in 2019. 34-year-old Stephen Lucore was found guilty of several charges, including second degree murder and homicide by vehicle, for the death of Robert Sawyer, 64, of Nocona, TX. Members of the Sawyer family, including David Sawyer, who was driving the vehicle Lucore collided with, were in attendance Monday and pleaded for justice. The state of Iowa spent about $12.3 billion in federal funds in fiscal 2020 that represented about a $3 billion increase — much of which was tied to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act — according to an audit issued Monday by State Auditor Rob Sand. Sand said about $2.3 billion of the 32.7 percent spike in federal aid the state received during the 2020 fiscal year came from the CARES Act, while changes in non-CARES and non-loan programs included an increase of about $518 million in funding for Medicaid expenditures. Sand critiqued Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds for using funding to pay her personal staff, which he described as having too many people. He suggested that the justification for using the federal funding was not properly done, and some money might need to be returned. A spokesperson for the governor said that her staff has spent much of its time since the pandemic began dealing with the after effects of the pandemic, so using recovery funds to pay them is appropriate, and the U.S. Department of Treasury has signed off on this use. Iowa will receive roughly $5 billion over five years in new federal funding from the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law Monday. The new federal funding for roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects will provide a revenue boost similar to when the state raised its fuel tax by a dime a gallon in 2015, according to Iowa's Department of Transportation director. Stuart Anderson, director of the Iowa Department of Transportation's transportation development division, said the funding boost represents a 25 percent increase in the first year, and increases to a 35 percent boost by the fifth year. “That definitely will mean more funding is available for construction work,” Anderson said. The U.S. Senate passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure funding bill in August and the U.S. House passed it last weekend. Of Iowa's senators and representatives, only Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Representative Cindy Axne voted in favor of the bill. Are you a fan of trying new restaurants? Get the latest restaurant openings & closings and more chewy tips from The Gazette's Chew On this newsletter. Sign up at http://thegazette.com/ (thegazette.com) slash chew  Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette Daily news podcast, or just tell your Amazon Alexa enabled device to “enable The Gazette Daily News skill" so you can get your daily briefing by simply saying “Alexa, what's the news? If you prefer podcasts, you can also find us on iTunes or wherever else you find your Podcasts. Support this podcast

Ramsey Russell joins Texas waterfowl hunting historian and author Rob Sawyer for a fast-paced, Texas-style blue-winged teal hunt at the beautiful Spread Oaks Ranch in coastal Matagorda County. After an incredible breakfast that included platter-sized country ham steaks smoked on-site, their conversation starts briefly with blue-winged teal hunting and habitat management before channeling through and infusing past and present mindsets of American duck hunting. Has it always been a numbers game or is there a little something more to it? Check out Robert Sawyer's landmark Texas waterfowl history books using the link below.   Related Links: Robert K. Sawyer Books: A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting, Texas Market Hunting, Images of the Hunt: A photographic History of Texas Waterfowling   Please subscribe, rate and review Duck Season Somewhere podcast. Share your favorite episodes with friends! Business inquiries and comments contact Ramsey Russell ramsey@getducks.com   Podcast Sponsors: BOSS Shotshells Benelli Shotguns Kanati Waterfowl Taxidermy GunDog Outdoors Mojo Outdoors Tom Beckbe Flash Back Decoys GetDucks USHuntList   It's really duck season somewhere for 365 days per year. Follow Ramsey Russell's worldwide duck hunting adventures as he chases real duck hunting experiences all year long: Instagram @ramseyrussellgetducks YouTube @GetDucks Facebook @GetDucks.com

Interviewing Shahid was really fun. Shahid is a man with a lot of passion for publishing. He is a man who has been married for 30 years or more with 3 children. He decided he wanted to be happy in his mid-life crisis. Shahid quits his job in finance and decides that he wanted to do something that keeps him going and a career that would make him excited every day, books and publishing makes Shahid happy. SHOUT OUT TO HIS WIFE FOR SUPPORTING SHAHID DREAMS TO REALITY. Shahid company Arc Manor Publishing is now the Award Winning Small Press based in Rockville, Maryland. Shahid grow up in Pakistan which he had a great life. He now is living in Washington. Shahid always been into Sci-Fi all of his life. We talked about his best projects and what a publisher does. He explained that a publisher should never ask an Author for money. You should never have to pay a publisher. We go further in detail during the interview. I didn't have to ask why he loves being a publisher because he express to me as we were talking how much he loves his life. He has great projects upcoming and I am super excited for Shahid. LETS KNOW A LITTLE MORE ABOUT SHAHID: Shahid Mahmud created Arc Manor Publishers in 2006, with an SF/Fantasy imprint called Phoenix Pick, specializing in republishing out-of-print books by established authors using the latest publishing technologies emerging in the industry. Within a few years the company was publishing older books by some iconic authors including L. Sprague de Camp, Jack Chalker, Leigh Brackett and Daniel Galouye. In 2012 Phoenix Pick reprinted a title by, Robert A. Heinlein starting a long partnership with the Heinlein estate. In 2013 the company introduced Galaxy's Edge magazine, which was created and edited by 5-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick who edited it till his death last year. Arc Manor created a new imprint, CEAZIK SF & Fantasy in 2020 publishing titles on a traditional distribution basis. The first book they published under the new imprint in March 2020 was a new work by Robert A. Heinlein called the Pursuit of the Pankera based on a rediscovered manscript. The book became a Locus Magazine bestseller. Since then CAEZIK has published new works by authors like Robert Sawyer, Harry Turtledove, James Morrow and Ben Bova who's last work, Power Challenges was published by CAEZIK posthumously. Arc Manor's Galaxy's Edge magazine has also partnered with Dragon Con to create an annual award called the Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Short Fiction which attempts to carry on Mike's passion of encouraging newer writers in the field The first award was given out last month. Prior to becoming a publisher, Shahid was a bond portfolio manager working for the City of San Diego. The acting mayor of San Diego declared November 7th, 2005, to be “Shahid Mahmud” day for services rendered to the City. If you would like to book Shahid for interviews you can contact Shahid by his Publicist Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge https://creativeedgepublicity.com/ 403.464.6925 or you can email Shahid at Admin@ArcManor.com if you need assistance or looking for a publisher go to Shahid's website at www.arcmanorbooks.com Shahid is a man of his word. He does not give you broken promises. He is a small publishing company who will have an one and one connection. BOOK SHAHID TODAY!!! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Wednesday, September 8. Wednesday's weather will bring with it cool air from the north that will stay with us until the temperatures rebound a bit this weekend. According to the National Weather Service the high will be near 76 degrees with sunny skies in the Cedar Rapids area. The change in weather will also come with some wind, as a 5 to 10 mph wind will increase up to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon, with gusts as high as 30 mph. A hot, dry summer — particularly in northern Iowa — has created favorable conditions for more harmful algae blooms in Iowa lakes. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported 24 swim advisories at state park beaches this summer because of microcystins, toxins generated by harmful algae. These toxins, if ingested, can cause gastroenteritis, allergic responses and potentially-fatal liver damage. This is double the 12 microcystin advisories in 2020. Iowa's Board of Regents unanimously approved Tuesday the construction of a $395 million University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics site in North Liberty starting as soon as this month. UIHC had focused discussion on the $230 million health care facility that needed state approval, board documents released Friday outlined the full 469,000-square-foot scope of the project at the corner of Forevergreen Road and Highway 965. A 300,000-square-foot portion will feature up to 48 beds, 21 emergency care rooms, 16 operating rooms and two more procedure rooms, along with laboratories, a pharmacy and other amenities. Community health care providers — including Mercy Iowa City, Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids and UnityPoint Health — unsuccessfully opposed the new hospital, arguing that it will drive them out of business and potentially increase the cost of healthcare for local consumers. A judge Tuesday found an Iowa City man guilty of second-degree murder and six other charges for intentionally driving the wrong way and crashing into another car in 2019 on Interstate 80 during an attempt to kill himself but instead causing another man's death and badly injuring four. Sixth Judicial District Judge Jason Besler, following a non-jury trial in July for Stephen Lucore, 34, announced his verdict Tuesday. He found Lucore, originally charged with first-degree murder, guilty of second-degree murder, homicide by vehicle, serious injury by vehicle, willful injury causing serious injury and three counts of willful injury causing bodily injury. https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/iowa-city-man-charged-in-fatal-i-80-crash-is-found-competent-to-stand-trial/ (According to a criminal complaint, Lucore drove his Hyundai Sonata )the wrong way about 9:30 p.m., June 16, 2019, on I-80 and caused a head-on collision with a Honda Pilot driven by David Sawyer, 31, of Frisco, Texas. Sawyer's passenger, Robert Sawyer, 64, of Nocona, Texas, died in the crash. Depending on how the judge runs the sentences — consecutively or concurrently — Lucore could face up to 75 years in prison. Battles between top ten ranked college football teams do not happen often in Iowa. But this Saturday that will be something that has never happened, a game between two top 10 ranked in state rivals. For the first time, the football teams of Iowa and Iowa State will both be in https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll (Associated Press' Top 25 )when they play each other for the 68th time. Not only that, but both are in the top 10 as they approach Saturday's meeting in Ames. They've never even been in the top 10 at the same time. Iowa State's No. 7 preseason ranking was its all-time high in the poll. Iowa State is No. 9, Iowa No. 10. If you love all things Iowa Football, don't miss Leah Vann's newly dubbed Hawk Off the Press newsletter. In her weekly email you'll get exclusive Hawkeye coverage, trivia, food reviews, podcast highlights and more. Sign up today at the thegazette.com/hawks Support this podcast

Tashia and Tammy discuss Robert Sawyer and poor Frances Arwood

We explore some of our favorite crime novels, the genre at large as part of mystery, and pick apart the differences between detective novels (tending to support law & order) vs caper novels (tending to be anti-establishment or radical) and the exceptions. Crime and caper novels can be historic or modern, and cross every genre. What do you need to think about when writing crime stories? We have some ideas. … Continue...Episode 102 – Crime and Euphemisms

Looking at life through the lens of time. In today's episode I touched on an old article I wrote about how turning 30 taught me it was ok to not have my shi* together. Book recommendation was for Calculating God by Robert Sawyer. Follow on social media @johnpicciuto --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thewrongadvicepod/support

Ce balado est seulement disponible en anglais, mais vous pouvez lire la traduction française ci-dessous. Les extraordinaires installations de recherche concrètes de ce pays offrent une merveilleuse toile de fond aux univers futuristes imaginés par Robert Sawyer. Elles confirment qu’il n’est pas nécessaire d’aller bien loin pour s’inspirer de la science de po L’auteur primé Robert Sawyer rêvait d’une carrière scientifique, mais l’état de la recherche au Canada dans les années 1970 l’a dissuadé d’emprunter cette voie. Il a plutôt décidé d’écrire de la science-fiction. Aujourd’hui, il campe souvent le décor de ses romans dans les remarquables laboratoires de recherche canadiens, dont le Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron (où il a été écrivain résident) et le SNOLAB (où se déroule une partie de son roman Hominids, lauréat du prix Hugo). En novembre 2018, devant un auditoire de chercheurs qui assistaient à un séminaire sur les installations de recherche canadiennes, il a passé en revue l’évolution des établissements scientifiques canadiens, depuis son entrée à l’université en 1979 jusqu’aux installations de calibre mondial dont nous disposons aujourd’hui. Premier ministre Sir Wilfrid Laurier avait déclaré que le 20e siècle appartiendrait au Canada; M. Sawyer nous explique pourquoi, dans le cas des sciences et grâce à la FCI, l’homme d’État avait vu juste à une centaine d’années près.   [ROBERT SAWYER] J’ai fait mes premiers pas en sciences dans ce pays durant les années 1970. En 1979, à la fin de mon secondaire, je voulais être paléontologue et étudier les dinosaures. [NARRATEUR] Voici Robert J. Sawyer, un auteur de science-fiction canadien primé. Il a écrit plus de vingt romans; ses livres sont traduits dans plus de deux douzaines de langues. Il prend ici la parole devant un auditoire de quelque 85 chercheurs canadiens à l’occasion d’un séminaire organisé par la Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation à Ottawa en novembre 2018. [ROBERT SAWYER] Mon père qui enseignait alors l’économie à l’Université de Toronto m’a dit : Quel que soit ton choix de carrière, renseigne-toi sur les perspectives d’emploi avant de te lancer. Parce que pour devenir scientifique, il faut compter dix ans avant d’obtenir son doctorat. C’est un gros investissement en temps. J’ai donc commencé à sonder le terrain. À l’époque, il y avait précisément trois paléontologues spécialistes des dinosaures au Canada. Et seulement 24 à plein temps dans le monde entier. Ce rêve en apparence insensé de devenir un auteur de science-fiction à succès reconnu internationalement tout en vivant à Toronto, au Canada, s’est révélé un choix professionnel plus facile à réaliser que de faire carrière en sciences au Canada dans les années 1970. [NARRATEUR] Après avoir écrit son premier roman en 1988, Robert Sawyer avait toujours des regrets de ne pas être devenu un scientifique. Il cite David Suzuki qui s’est aussi prononcé sur l’état de la science au Canada à cette époque. [ROBERT SAWYER] En 1987 – ne perdons pas de vue que ça fait 31 ans de cela — il a dit de l’état de la science au Canada : J’ai rapidement constaté la différence entre le Canada et les États-Unis. Mes collègues américains, qui débutaient aussi leur carrière dans un poste de professeur adjoint, pouvaient s’attendre à recevoir des premières subventions de 30 000 à 40 000 dollars. On m’a dit que les subventions du Conseil national de recherches du Canada commençaient autour de 2500 dollars. Il est clair qu’à l’époque où je pensais devenir un scientifique, la science dans ce pays n’en était encore qu’à ses premiers balbutiements en plus d’être sous-évaluée. Il n’y avait pas beaucoup de gens qui se consacraient à plein temps à la science. Nos établissements ne recevaient pas le financement adéquat. Le formidable bassin d’intellectuels produit ici au Canada n’était pas apprécié à sa juste valeur. Mais les temps ont changé. Et, comme auteur de science-fiction, j’ai eu la chance d’observer ces changements. Hominids, publié en 2002, se déroule en grande partie dans ce qu’on appelait alors l’Observatoire de neutrinos de Sudbury, aujourd’hui rebaptisé le SNOLAB en raison de son mandat élargi. [NARRATEUR] Le SNOLAB est une installation souterraine unique située à Sudbury, en Ontario. Construit deux kilomètres sous terre dans une mine de nickel, le laboratoire se spécialise dans l’étude des neutrinos et de la matière noire. En 2015, l’astrophysicien canadien Arthur McDonald et son partenaire de recherche ont obtenu le prix Nobel de physique pour leur découverte qui montre que les particules subatomiques appelées neutrinos ont une masse. [ROBERT SAWYER] Je me rappelle très bien avoir appelé Art McDonald et lui avoir dit : Vous savez, je veux écrire un roman qui se passe… Et il m’a répondu : Écoutez, un auteur de romans policiers est venu ici et nous n’étions pas très contents de ce qu’il a fait, je ne sais pas. Il a ensuite ajouté : Vous voulez faire quoi? Et j’ai dit : « Eh bien, dans le premier chapitre, je veux détruire le détecteur de neutrinos. Il m’a alors répondu : Vous savez comment vous pourriez faire ça? [RIRES DE M. SAWYER ET DU PUBLIC] Et, de fait, j’ai utilisé son scénario. Et il a immédiatement embarqué. Et, pendant que j’écrivais le roman, j’ai été ravi de pouvoir… Je cherchais une installation de calibre mondial et, contrairement à la période où j’ai commencé à écrire à la fin des années 1980, au début des années 2000, je pouvais choisir le décor de mes romans parmi des lieux qui existaient. Mais j’ai commencé par l’Observatoire de neutrinos de Sudbury parce que c’est vraiment une installation merveilleuse, incroyable. Passez par là si vous en avez la chance. Allez y jeter un coup d’œil. J’ai appris que le SNOLAB est équipé des toilettes à chasse les plus profondes au monde. Et je me sentais mal parce qu’il faut compter quatre heures pour descendre dans le SNOLAB. C’est le seul… Alors je me suis retenu. Je ne savais pas. J’aurais dû utiliser la toilette parce que j’aurais pu participer à ce record, n’est-ce pas? J’aurais pu dire : Wow! Je l’ai utilisée. C’est un peu comme aller au Louvre et ne pas voir La Joconde? D’une certaine façon, on passe à côté de l’essentiel. [NARRATEUR] Dans son œuvre de fiction, Robert Sawyer a souvent situé l’intrigue de ses romans dans des installations de recherche de calibre mondial. Pour son vingt-troisième roman, Quantum Night, il s’est inspiré du Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron établi à Saskatoon, en Saskatchewan. [ROBERT SAWYER] Ce choix allait de soi. Permettez-moi de vous lire un extrait du roman. [LECTURE] Kayla et moi sommes arrivés au Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron un peu après 9 h. J’ai remarqué avec amusement que l’adresse du centre, situé sur le campus de l’Université de la Saskatchewan, était… Quelle est cette adresse? [UN MEMBRE DU PUBLIC RÉPOND ET M. SAWYER RÉPÈTE] 44, boulevard Innovation! [IL POURSUIT LA LECTURE] Je suppose qu’il était difficile pour les autres entreprises établies dans cette rue d’être à la hauteur de ce que Kayla décrivait pendant qu’elle me faisait visiter. Un synchrotron, a-t-elle dit tandis que nous marchions, est un instrument incroyablement polyvalent; c’est le couteau suisse des accélérateurs de particules. On peut le régler de manière à réaliser à peu près n’importe quoi, ajuster la gamme d’énergie, la longueur d’onde, la résolution, la luminosité des photons et la taille des faisceaux. Les chercheurs ici travaillent dans toutes sortes de domaines : physique fondamentale, archéologie, géologie, botanique, nouvelles sources de carburant, science des matériaux. C’est incroyable de voir la quantité de recherches scientifiques exceptionnelles de calibre mondial menées ici. Et de constater comment des appareils conçus dans un but précis — comme c’étaient le cas pour le synchrotron et le SNOLAB — ont vu leur rôle s’étendre avec le temps. Qui aurait pu penser, au moment de la construction du synchrotron, qu’un de ses principaux domaines de recherche serait l’archéologie? C’est vraiment phénoménal ce qu’on arrive à faire une fois l’infrastructure en place. [NARRATEUR] Pour ses romans, Robert Sawyer s’est inspiré de grandes installations scientifiques situées aussi bien à l’échelle internationale — par exemple, le CERN, un laboratoire de physique des particules en Suisse — qu’au Canada, comme le département de paléontologie du Musée royal de l’Ontario à Toronto et l’accélérateur de particules TRIUMF à Vancouver. Il s’emploie, dans ses œuvres de fiction, à mettre en lumière les installations scientifiques canadiennes. [ROBERT SAWYER] Je ne vais jamais à l’extérieur des frontières du Canada, sauf quand les contraintes du récit m’y obligent. Par exemple, j’ai écrit le roman Un procès pour les étoiles. Ce drame judiciaire raconte l’histoire d’un extraterrestre accusé de meurtre. Aux États-Unis, le défendeur risque la peine de mort. Au Canada, il ferait seulement l’objet d’une sévère réprimande. J’ai donc dû situer l’intrigue aux États-Unis pour que les enjeux soient plus dramatiques. Mais dans toute autre circonstance, j’essaie de trouver une solution au Canada. Et au cours de ce siècle, j’y suis parvenu. [NARRATEUR] L’enthousiasme de M. Sawyer pour la science au Canada vient de son passé d’aspirant scientifique devenu écrivain. Il a vu se transformer la recherche au pays au cours des décennies. Il en parle dans un entretien après sa présentation. [ROBERT SAWYER] Selon moi, nous n’avons jamais fait mieux, mais cela ne veut pas dire que la recherche scientifique au Canada ne peut pas s’améliorer encore. Je crois que nous sommes sur une belle lancée. Nous avons eu un lauréat du prix Nobel de physique en 2018. Nous avons eu un prix Nobel de physique trois ans auparavant et je m’attends à voir de plus en plus de prix Nobel canadiens en sciences. Nous verrons aussi de plus en plus d’étudiants en sciences canadiens rester ici parce qu’ils ne trouveront pas mieux ailleurs. Parce que le SNOLAB est le meilleur endroit au monde pour mener des recherches fondamentales sur les particules. Le Centre canadien du rayonnement synchrotron est le meilleur endroit au monde pour réaliser tous ces travaux que permet un synchrotron. Notre brise-glace Amundsen est le meilleur endroit au monde pour mener des recherches sur l’Arctique. Nous avons non seulement les cerveaux les mieux formés, mais aussi les meilleures installations. Et ils nous permettront d’être reconnus sur la scène mondiale. [NARRATEUR] Cette vision optimiste de Robert Sawyer sur l’avenir de la science au Canada, on la retrouve aussi dans son approche de l’écriture de fiction. Pour lui, la science-fiction est un instrument qui peut influencer notre façon d’envisager l’avenir et le rôle de la recherche dans la construction de cet avenir. [ROBERT SAWYER] Si la science-fiction me passionne, ce n’est pas, comme on le croit souvent, parce qu’elle prédit l’avenir, car ce n’est pas notre rôle de prédire l’avenir. Notre travail consiste à laisser entrevoir la multiplicité des avenirs possibles, l’éventail de demains potentiels, afin que nous puissions nous dire : Mais c’est terrible! La surveillance omniprésente des citoyens, l’absence de vie privée, le manque de liberté. Nous ne voulons pas cela! Vous savez, c’est ce que George Orwell nous a rappelé. Ou encore, nous pouvons nous dire : Il existe plein de nouvelles technologies reproductrices, mais si nous laissons cela entre les mains des hommes… Margaret Atwood a écrit un roman de science-fiction à ce sujet – La servante écarlate, n’est-ce pas? Malheureusement, ces livres de science-fiction qui offrent des représentations dystopiques sont généralement plus faciles à écrire – Si les choses continuent comme cela, ça va aller très mal. Dans cet éventail de possibilités, j’ai voulu – c’est ce qui m’intéresse – trouver cet élément qui n’a pas encore été vu comme une proposition appétissante. Je veux montrer que si nous nous servons correctement de l’intelligence artificielle, nous pouvons nous donner ce monde qui sera meilleur pour tous. Si nous menons des recherches sur la génomique et la génétique et partageons l’information génétique dans un contexte de médecine socialisée, nous pourrons assurer une vie meilleure, plus longue, plus saine à l’ensemble de la population. Selon moi, quand la science-fiction met à profit sa nature spéculative pour proposer des perspectives positives, on peut stimuler les gens… et c’est tant mieux si je stimule mes lecteurs. Cela dit, c’est secondaire. Ça me permet de gagner ma vie, mais c’est secondaire. Ce qui est important, c’est que ces lecteurs se mobilisent pour faire bouger leurs représentants gouvernementaux et qu’ils leur disent : Voilà ce que nous voulons! Donnez-le nous! Donnez-nous une intelligence artificielle productive et sécuritaire! Donnez-nous une plus longue espérance de vie en bonne santé. Donnez-nous des moyens d’augmenter la rentabilité des récoltes comme jamais auparavant. Donnez-nous cet avenir. Ne nous donnez pas celui où les robots deviennent les maîtres du monde. Ne nous donnez pas celui où nous n’avons aucune liberté de reproduction. Ne nous donnez pas celui où nous n’avons plus de vie privée. Choisissez ces avenirs… Et je veux promouvoir les avenirs positifs que je connais… Parce que cela fait 150 ans, maintenant 151 ans, que nous travaillons dans ce pays à bâtir ces avenirs prospères. Et nous essayons de le faire pour tout le monde! Aucun autre pays sur la planète n’a une feuille de route comme la nôtre. [NARRATEUR] À la fin de sa présentation, Robert Sawyer rappelle aux chercheurs présents dans la salle le rôle qu’ils peuvent jouer dans l’avenir de la recherche au Canada. [ROBERT SAWYER] Mon écrivain de science-fiction préféré, Arthur C. Clark, a déjà dit : Toute technologie suffisamment avancée est indiscernable de la magie. Je ne crois pas que ce soit tout à fait vrai. Selon moi, si on s’engage trop loin dans la magie, on enfreint les lois connues de la physique, la conservation de la masse et de l’énergie. Mais je souscris à son idée selon laquelle plus la science évolue… Maintenant que nous sommes dans la seconde décennie du 21e siècle, songez à quel point nous avons évolué. Imaginez où nous en serons à la cinquième décennie, à la neuvième décennie de ce siècle. Plus la science évoluera, plus elle paraîtra miraculeuse au grand public. Les choses que nous sommes capables de faire. Vous, les chercheurs, obtenez le financement. Avec la FCI, vous disposez d’un formidable organisme auquel vous êtes redevable. Vous avez aussi une grande responsabilité envers vos collègues masculins et féminins. Vous devez veiller à prendre les bonnes décisions, tandis que nous avançons vers un merveilleux avenir dans lequel je pourrais moi-même être un scientifique si j’étais né aujourd’hui.

September 28th: Robert Wayne Sawyer Kills (1979) Excessive drinking can get you into a lot of trouble. Your inhibitions are low and you do things you normally wouldn’t. On September 28th 1979 2 New Orleans men, after a night of drinking, made the inebriated decision to brutally take the life of an innocent 23 year old babysitter. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: morningcupofmurder@gmail.com Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sawyer_(murderer) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/morning-cup-of-murder/message

Guest: Ben from Ukulele Roadtrips Hosts: Stuart Yoshida, Doug Brown This could be the start of a Bromance as we welcome back Ben from Ukulele Roadtrips to have another Nice-olation podcast on ukuleles and the Pandemic. It soon goes off the rails as we bounce from Batman tee-shirts, to Swedes, to GNUF, and to a box of ukuleles falling the stairs, and that’s just in first 15 minutes. You might just have to watch this one on YouTube. So grab your favorite drink, so back and enjoy another episode… of the OokTown Podcast.

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Writing with “a sense of wonder that hasn’t prevailed since the days of Heinlein” (Books in Canada), best-novel Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Robert J. Sawyer brings you “a truly science-fictional work of alternate history” (S.M. Stirling). While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a weapon based on nuclear fusion — the mechanism that powers the sun. But Teller’s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system — including Earth. After the war ends, Oppenheimer’s physicists combine forces with Albert Einstein, computing pioneer John von Neumann, and rocket designer Wernher von Braun — the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century racing against time to save our future. Meticulously researched and replete with real-life characters and events, The Oppenheimer Alternative is a breathtaking adventure through both real and alternate history.

The ELCA participated in worship with our Mexican siblings in Christ at the US-Mexico Border on February 18, 2020. We invited St. John's members Robert Sawyer, Barbara Beddow and Vicar Carolyn Brodt to gather and describe their experience with Pastor Amy Kienzle.

“For I have become death … the destroyer of worlds ….” With that epochal Vedic scripture, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the top-secret World War II “Manhattan Project,” hurled the world into the vast uncertainties of “the Atomic Age” … 75 years ago this month, July 16, 1945 …. But what if the United States’ breakneck atomic bomb development, followed by the creation of its even more devastating “fusion” follow-on, the dreaded “super hydrogen-device,” had, as a quiet side-effect, also revealed a terrifying planetary secret?: That, just decades in the future — regardless of the then uncertain outcome of WWII — civilization itself would be totally destroyed … not by “global thermonuclear war” — but, by a once-in-a-million-year, gargantuan thermonuclear explosion– On the Sun?! Fortunately, the preceding scenario is total fiction — from the fertile mind and technical imagination of my guest tonight, award-winning “hard” science-fiction writer, Robert Sawyer. Or [...]

Writing with “a sense of wonder that hasn’t prevailed since the days of Heinlein” (Books in Canada), best-novel Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Robert J. Sawyer brings you “a truly science-fictional work of alternate history” (S.M. Stirling). While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a weapon based on nuclear fusion — the mechanism that powers the sun. But Teller’s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system — including Earth. After the war ends, Oppenheimer’s physicists combine forces with Albert Einstein, computing pioneer John von Neumann, and rocket designer Wernher von Braun — the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century racing against time to save our future. Meticulously researched and replete with real-life characters and events, The Oppenheimer Alternative is a breathtaking adventure through both real and alternate history.

Robert J. Sawyer is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world's top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (the full list of such winners: Paolo Bacigalupi, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Connie Willis), and he's the first author in thirty years to receive a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award. Rob is also an award-winning scriptwriter and an in-demand keynote speaker.Sawyer's work frequently explores the intersection between science and religion, with rationalism frequently winning out over mysticism especially Far-Seer, The Terminal Experiment, Calculating God, and the three volumes of the Neanderthal Parallax [Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids]Sawyer often explores the notion of copied or uploaded human consciousness, mind uploading, most fully in his novel Mindscan, but also in Flashforward, Golden Fleece, The Terminal Experiment, "Identity Theft", "Biding Time", and "Shed Skin". His interest in consciousness studies is also apparent in Wake, which deals with the spontaneous emergence of consciousness in the infrastructure of the World Wide Web. His interest in quantum physics, and especially quantum computing, inform the short stories "You See But You Do Not Observe"(a Sherlock Holmes pastiche) and "Iterations," and the novels Factoring Humanity and Hominids. SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, plays a role in the plots of Golden Fleece, Factoring Humanity, Mindscan, Rollback, the novelette "Ineluctable," and the short stories "You See But You Do Not Observe" and "Flashes." Sawyer gives cosmology a thorough workout in his far-future Starplex. Sawyer has won both Canada's top SF award (the Prix Aurora Award) and its top mystery-fiction award (the Arthur Ellis Award) for his 1993 short story "Just Like Old Times."[20] Illegal Alien is a courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant; Hominids puts one Neanderthal on trial by his peers for the apparent murder of another Neanderthal; Mindscan has the rights of uploaded consciousnesses explored in a Michigan probate court; and Golden Fleece, Fossil Hunter, The Terminal Experiment, Frameshift, and Flashforward are all, in part, murder mysteries. You may have watched the 2009 TV series Flash Forward a phenomenal series on ABC. I brought Robert Sawyer on because his writing brings us to the nexus between consciousness and science.  (And I am a big fan!)  “Robert J. Sawyer is just about the best science fiction writer out there these days.” —Denver Rocky Mountain News    “Robert J. Sawyer is by any measure one of the world's leading (and most interesting) science-fiction writers.” —The Globe and Mail    “Robert J. Sawyer is a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation.” —The New York Times    “Robert J. Sawyer is the science fiction genre's northern star — in fact, one of the hottest SF writers anywhere. By any reckoning Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever.” —Maclean's: Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine Robert has a new book out on the secret history of Robert Oppenheimer you can pre order a copy here.  https://www.amazon.com/Oppenheimer-Alternative-Robert-J-Sawyer-ebook/dp/B084H26X5S/ Check out Robert's website here https://www.sfwriter.com/For coaching – https://www.advancedsuccessinstitute.com For all episodes of the Reality Revolution – https://www.therealityrevolution.com Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RealityRevolutionPodcast/ Join our facebook group The Reality Revolution  https://www.facebook.com/groups/403122083826082/ Subscribe to my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgXHr5S3oF0qetPfqxJfSw Contact us at media@advancedsuccessinsitute.com #robertsawyer #sciencefiction #AI #oppenheimer

This episode contains: Devon is getting back into recording music and finally learns what a DAW is. Devon also changed the pickups on a guitar, using the solder and all; and it actually worked! Steven tells us about replacing the exhaust on his Mustang. Biological Imperative: Amputees merge with their bionic leg. “Scientists have helped three amputees merge with their bionic prosthetic legs as they climb over various obstacles without having to look. The amputees report using and feeling their bionic leg as part of their own body, thanks to sensory feedback from the prosthetic leg that is delivered to nerves in the leg's stump.” We also discuss whether we would elect to have a health limb replaced with a bionic one depending on the advantages of the mechanical arm. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002144243.htm This Week in Space: New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains. “New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings are the result of the ongoing deep dive into data from NASA's Cassini mission.” WE discuss what this could mean for finding life in our solar system and galaxy. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-organic-compounds-found-in-enceladus-ice-grains https://www.britannica.com/science/organic-compound Sci-Fi: Force Friday happened. Apparently a lot of new Star Wars stuff won’t come out until after the new movie does for spoiler reasons. Steven also tells us about Fallen Order. Steven is reading Iron Gold, the 4th book in the Red Rising series. Devon read the second book of the Neanderthal Parallax by Robert Sawyer. Steven also read the new X-Men comics and gives us his review.

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In this 119th episode I welcome Dr. Robert Sawyer to the show. Dr. Sawyer was the PI on the STOP-IT trial comparing a short course of antibiotics versus a longer course for complicated intraabdominal infections. We discuss the trial, the outcomes, and what the future of antimicrobial management in the surgical ICU may look like. … Continue reading "Episode 119: STOP-IT Trial with Rob Sawyer"

This country’s extraordinary real-life research facilities provide a wondrous backdrop for Sawyer’s imagined futures, proving you don’t have to stray far from home to be inspired by leading-edge science Award-winning author Robert Sawyer dreamed of a career in science, but was discouraged by the state of Canadian research in the 1970s. So he decided to write science fiction instead. These days, he often sets his novels in Canada’s remarkable research labs, including the Canadian Light Source (where he was writer-in-residence) and SNOLAB (where part of his Hugo Award-winning novel Hominids is set). Speaking to a room full of researchers at a workshop for the country’s national research facilities in November 2018, he surveyed the state of Canadian science institutions from the time he was entering university in 1979 through to the world-class installations we have today. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier said the 20th century would belong to Canada; Sawyer tells us why, as far as science is concerned and thanks to the CFI, he was off by a hundred years. Music credit: Soda Machine by Kabbalistic Village | @kabbalisticvillageMusic promoted by www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Transcript: [SAWYER] I started out to be a scientist in this country in the 1970s. I was graduating from high school in 1979, and I wanted to be a dinosaurian paleontologist. [NARRATOR] This is Robert J. Sawyer, award-winning Canadian science fiction writer. He has written more than twenty novels, and his books can be read in over two dozen languages. Here he speaks to a room of about 85 Canadian researchers at a workshop hosted by the Canada Foundation for Innovation in Ottawa in November 2018. [SAWYER] My father taught economics at the University of Toronto, and he said, “Whatever you want to do, do a little research. Find out what the job opportunities are before you invest.” Because if you’re gonna become a scientist, you’re talking ten years to get your PhD. You’re going to invest a lot of time. So I started looking around, and at that time, 1979, there were precisely three dinosaurian palaeontologists in Canada. There are only 24 full-timers in the entire world. And so what I thought was a crazy dream, which was being an internationally successful science fiction writer, based in Toronto, based in Canada, actually turned out to be more practicable as a career choice than choosing science in this country in the 1970s. [NARRATOR] After he wrote his first novel in 1988, Sawyer was still troubled about not having become a scientist. He quotes David Suzuki, who was also reflecting on the state of Canadian science at the time. [SAWYER] He had said this in ’87. So, again, just to give us some perspective here, this was 31 years ago — “I was soon to see the difference between Canada and the United States. My American peers, starting out as assistant professors like me, could expect their first grants in the 30- to 40 thousand dollar range. I was told that National Research Council of Canada grants start at about 25 hundred dollars.” So there’s no question that, at the time I was thinking of becoming a scientist, and indeed in the early days of science in this country, we were undervaluing it. We didn’t have a lot of people who were making full-time careers in science. We were underfunding our institutions. We were depreciative of the great intellectual base we were producing here in Canada. Times change though. And I've been privileged as a science fiction writer to watch those changes. In 2002, a novel of mine came out called Hominids, which is set in large part at what was then called the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, and is now — because it has widened its mandate — SNOLAB. [NARRATOR] SNOLAB is a unique underground research facility in Sudbury, Ontario. Located in a nickel mine two kilometers underground, the lab specializes in neutrino and dark matter physics. In 2015, Canadian astrophysicist, Arthur McDonald, and his research partner won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that subatomic particles known as neutrinos have mass. [SAWYER] And I remember, very vividly, calling up Art McDonald, and I said, “You know, I want to write a novel set …” And he said, “Oh man, we had a mystery writer come here. We weren’t really happy with what they did, I don’t know.” And he said, “What do you want to do?” And I said, “Well, in the first chapter, I want to destroy the neutrino detector.” And he said, “You know how you can do that?” [SAWYER AND AUDIENCE LAUGH] And I actually used his scenario. So he immediately got engaged. And I loved the fact that, when I was writing this novel, I was able to … I was looking for a facility that was world-class, and unlike when I started writing in the late 80s, by the early 2000s, I could look around and have my pick of them to write and set novels at. But I started with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, as really, it’s a wonderful, amazing, facility. If you get the chance to go, go down. Have a look. I learned that SNOLAB, has the world’s deepest flushed toilets in the world. And I felt bad because you have to go down for four hours. That’s the only … so, I held it. I didn’t know. I should have used the toilet because then I would have been part of that record, right? I would have said, “Oh, wow! I used it.” It’s like going to the Louvre and not seeing the Mona Lisa, right? You’re missing out on the whole point of the trip, in some ways. [NARRATOR] Setting his novels in world-class research facilities is an idea Sawyer has returned to again and again in his fiction. By his twenty-third novel, Quantum Night, he found inspiration in the Canadian Light Source, Canada’s national synchrotron facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. [SAWYER] It was such a natural to set it there. I’ll just read you a paragraph from the novel. [READING] “Kayla and I made it to the Canadian Light Source a little after 9 a.m. I was amused to note that its street address, on the University of Saskatchewan campus, was …” What is it? [AUDIENCE MEMBER RESPONDS, SAWYER REPEATS] 44 Innovation Boulevard! [CONTINUES READING] “I suspect the other occupants of that street were hard-pressed to match the sort of things Kayla described as she gave me a tour. “A synchrotron,” she said, as we walked along, “is an amazingly versatile tool; it’s the Swiss Army knife of particle accelerators. You can tune its output to do almost anything, adjusting energy range, wavelength, resolution, photon brightness, and beam size. The researchers here do work in fundamental physics, archaeology, geology, botany, new fuel sources, materials science — you name it.” It’s incredible how much world-class, first-rate science is going on here. And that purpose-built machines — in a way that the synchrotron was, in the way that SNOLAB was — expand their mandate as time goes on. Who would have thought, when they were building the synchrotron, that one of its key areas of research would be archaeology? So incredible, once you have the infrastructure in place, what can be accomplished. [NARRATOR] Sawyer has drawn on powerhouse science facilities for his novels both internationally — including CERN, a particle physics lab in Switzerland — and across Canada, like the paleontology department at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the TRIUMF particle accelerator in Vancouver. He is committed to using his fiction to put a spotlight on Canadian science facilities. [SAWYER] I never want to look beyond Canada’s borders, unless I can’t fulfil my fictional need in Canada. For instance, I have a novel called Illegal Alien. Illegal Alien is a courtroom drama with an extraterrestrial defendant. The defendant is charged with murder. In the United States, that means the defendant can be facing the death penalty. In Canada, the defendant would be facing a stern talking-to. So I had to set it in the United States to have the dramatic stakes. But in every other circumstance, I look for the Canadian answer. And it has not failed me this century. [NARRATOR] Sawyer’s enthusiasm for Canadian science stems from his vantage point of aspiring-scientist-turned-writer. He has witnessed a transformation in research in this country over the decades. He talks about that in an interview after his presentation. [SAWYER] I think we’re at the best we’ve ever been, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to be the best we’ll ever be, in terms of Canadian science research. I think we’ve got real momentum moving forward, here. We had a Nobel Laureate in physics in 2018. We had a Nobel Laureate in physics three years prior to that. I suspect we’re going to see more and more Nobel medals coming to Canada in the sciences, and we’re also going to see more and more generations in Canadian science students staying here because there’s nowhere better to go. Because the best place in the world to do fundamental particle research is SNOLAB. The best place in the world to do all the variety of things that you can do with a synchrotron is the Canadian Light Source. The best place in the world to do Arctic research is aboard our icebreaker Amundsen. We have, not only now the best trained minds, but also the best facilities. And what we’re going to see come out of that is a recognition on the world stage. [NARRATOR] Sawyer’s optimistic view of where Canadian science is headed carries through to his approach to writing fiction. He sees science fiction as instrumental to influencing how we envision our future, and the role of research in shaping it. [SAWYER] I’m passionate about science fiction, not because, as is often erroneously thought, it predicts the future, because that’s not our job. Our job is to predict the multiplicity of possible futures, the smorgasbords of tomorrows, so that we can look and say, “Well that’s terrible! Everybody’s under surveillance all the time, there’s no privacy, there’s no freedom. We don’t want that!” You know, George Orwell reminded us of that. Or, if we start, “Okay, a lot of new technologies in reproduction, but if we just let men control them …” Well, Margaret Atwood gave us a science fiction novel about that — The Handmaid’s Tale, right? The problem with science fiction generally is those are the easy ones to write. The dystopian — “If this goes on, it’s going to go horribly wrong.” And I felt, what I’m passionate about, is finding the place on that smorgasbord of possibilities, where there hasn’t been a really appetizing one put out. I want to say if we do artificial intelligence right, we can have this world, where everybody is better off. If we do genomics and genetic research and the sharing of genetic information in a socialized medicine context, we can have better, longer, healthier lives for everybody. I think that when science fiction turns its speculative knack to positive futures, we can energize … it’s all well-and-good that I energize my readers. That’s incidental. I make my living doing that, but it’s incidental. What’s important is when those readers turn around and energize their representatives in government and say, “We want that! Give us that! Give us successful, safe A.I. Give us longer lifespans that are healthy. Give us a way to grow more crops than we ever grew before. Give us this future. Don’t give us the one where the robots take over. Don’t give us the one where we have no reproductive freedom. Don’t give us the one where we have no privacy. Choose those ones …” And I’m passionate about being the advocate for the positive futures that I know … Because we’ve had 150 years, now 151 years, of doing it in this country, of making positive futures come true. And we try to do it for everybody! And no other country on the globe has our track record of doing it. [NARRATOR] At the end of Sawyer’s presentation, he reminds the researchers in the room of their part in deciding the future of research in Canada. [SAWYER] My favorite science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clark, once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I don’t actually think that’s true. I think if you get too far into magic, you’re violating known physical law. But the spirit of it. That the more advanced science becomes … And look at how advanced we are, here in the second decade of the 21st century. Imagine how advanced we’ll be by the fifth decade, or the ninth decade, of this century. The more advanced science becomes, the more miraculous it will seem to the general public. The things that we’re able to do. You guys are getting the funding. You guys have a great custodian agency that you’re responsible to in CFI. You also have a great responsibility to your fellow men and women, to make sure you make the right decisions, as we move ahead into a wonderful future in which I, even I, could have been a scientist, had I been born today.

Award-winning author Robert Sawyer dreamed of a career in science, but was discouraged by the state of Canadian research in the 1970s. So he decided to write science fiction instead. These days, he often sets his novels in Canada’s remarkable research labs, including the Canadian Light Source (where he was writer-in-residence) and SNOLAB (where part of his Hugo Award-winning novel Hominids is set). Speaking to a room full of researchers at a workshop for the country’s national research facilities in November 2018, he surveyed the state of Canadian science institutions from the time he was entering university in 1979 through to the world-class installations we have today. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier said the 20th century would belong to Canada; Sawyer tells us why, as far as science is concerned and thanks to the CFI, he was off by a hundred years. Music credit: Soda Machine by Kabbalistic Village | @kabbalisticvillageMusic promoted by www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

In episode 31 of the Moment Masters Show host Shakira M. Brown a.k.a The Small Biz Whisperer go in-depth on branding with advertising and branding genius Robert A.B. Sawyer. Sawyer who has over 30 year of experience branding and developing marketing strategies for businesses of all sizes across a myriad of industries thoughtfully reminds us that branding is not defined by the business but more so by its customers. His impressive background in the world of advertising and branding includes working with some of the leading advertising firms in the world including Ogilvy Mather, R/GA • Saatchi & Saatchi Young & Rubicam and Ziccardi and Partners. The brands he has helped shape include American Express, AT&T, DHL Asia, Hitachi, OTIS and Pepsi Cola Company, among man others. He is also a published author of two books: Kiss and Sell Wriitng for Advertising Redesigned and Rekissed  and American Lullaby. Sawyer says “When we are talking about the process of building its about building value and the first step is to begin internally. It is important for all employees to have the same point of view no matter how many employees you have it. He says everyone must be on message or stay on brand.” Our discussion goes quite deep and by the end of listening to this episode you will have a clear understanding of what branding is and most importantly understand why you must view your business as something fluid and dynamic that must be continuously monitored. Sawyer warns that you can’t do that if you are not certain what your business actually is.  Plus, find out why branding is as granular as the quality of the type of promotional items you hand out to prospects and why Sawyer believes that having a feeling of insecurity in business is not as bad as you may think. Show Notes Sign-Up for Private Brand Coaching for Your Small Business with The Small Biz Whisperer Check out this Websites: http://njprexpert.com Follow Me on Twitter: @SmallBizWhisper Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes (please leave a review if you like what you hear!) Subscribe to this Podcast in Google Play Subscribe to this Podcast in Stitcher    Interview Notes: Find Robert Sawyer on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwordplay/ Check out Robert Sawyer's website - http://rwordplay.com/   Pick up Robert's Books  Kiss and Sell Writing for Advertising Redesigned and Rekissed  (an amazing book that unwraps some leading ad campaigns over the years. Use it to leand and for ideas. American Lullaby (Poetry)    Be a guest on Moment Masters Show - email podcast@momentmasters.com   

Paul, Scott, and Terry discuss Robert Sawyer's take on Heinlein's venerated "5 Rules of Writing." See the article here: http://www.sfwriter.com/ow05.htm

Paul, Scott, and Terry discuss Robert Sawyer's take on Heinlein's venerated "5 Rules of Writing." See the article here: http://www.sfwriter.com/ow05.htm

Tim Wu talks with Robert Sawyer, a science fiction writer who is the author of The Terminal Experiment and The Neanderthal Parallax. Stranger Than Fiction is a co-production of Slate and the New America Foundation.

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of February 20, 2012.Topics discussed in this week's episode: Moral enhancement and cognitive enhancement (featuring insights from Peter Singer and Allen Buchanen), progressivism and the potential for transhumanism (featuring clips from James Hughes and Robert Sawyer), and an update on PETA's case against SeaWorld.Tracks used in this episode:Air: "Sonic Armada"Zammuto: "F U C-3PO"Shinsuke Matsumoto: "Kou"Podcast Feed | Subscribe via iTunes

Following his lecture at the Gardiner Museum, Robert J. Sawyer responded to questions from the audience. This is an excerpt from the Q & A. Sawyer's full lecture, entitled Humanity 2.0, will be broadcast on Big Ideas on February 4, 2012 at 5pm as well as podcast on tvo.org, iTunes and You Tube.

Following his lecture at the Gardiner Museum, Robert J. Sawyer responded to questions from the audience. This is an excerpt from the Q & A. Sawyer's full lecture, entitled Humanity 2.0, will be broadcast on Big Ideas on February 4, 2012 at 5pm as well as podcast on tvo.org, iTunes and You Tube.

Following his lecture at the Gardiner Museum, sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer responded to questions from the audience. This is an excerpt from the Q & A. Sawyer's full lecture, entitled Humanity 2.0, will be broadcast on Big Ideas on February 4, 2012 at 5pm as well as podcast on tvo.org, iTunes and You Tube.

Following his lecture at the Gardiner Museum, sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer responded to questions from the audience. This is an excerpt from the Q & A. Sawyer's full lecture, entitled Humanity 2.0, will be broadcast on Big Ideas on February 4, 2012 at 5pm as well as podcast on tvo.org, iTunes and You Tube.

Following his lecture at the Gardiner Museum, science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer responded to questions from the audience. This is an excerpt from the Q & A. Sawyer's full lecture, entitled Humanity 2.0, will be broadcast on Big Ideas on February 4, 2012 at 5pm as well as podcast on tvo.org, iTunes and You Tube.

Following his lecture at the Gardiner Museum, science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer responded to questions from the audience. This is an excerpt from the Q & A. Sawyer's full lecture, entitled Humanity 2.0, will be broadcast on Big Ideas on February 4, 2012 at 5pm as well as podcast on tvo.org, iTunes and You Tube.