Today we reviewed the Sci-Fi book Accelerando.

If you’ve been reading current science fiction, and particularly if you’ve been reading the discussion around current science fiction, you’ve probably heard of the concept of the Singularity. If you haven’t, briefly, it’s the idea that technological development is an exponential curve, which means that technological change will keep getting faster and faster until it vertically spikes. This is the Singularity, since beyond this point whatever exists afterwards will probably be incomprehensible to those of us who live on this side of the spike.

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Join us as we interview Richard Nelson, President and CEO of the Utah Technology Council and also the CEO of the Technology Councils of North America, which is TECNA.

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Join us as we talk with Ted Haeger (Director, Developer Programs) from Bungee Labs.

From their website:

Platform-as-a-Service is a single environment encompassing the entire web application lifecycle from development through delivery.

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Jayce Hall comes on the show to tell us about the Second Annual Utah Open Source Conference happening in August this year.

The Utah Open Source Conference 2008 will be held at the Salt Lake Community College, Redwood Road campus from August 28 – 30, 2008.

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The Internet is about getting things done easier, better, faster, cheaper. Sterling Okura of BizLift.com will walk us through how any small business can capitalize on internet tools to do more business on less budget.

On the show, we talked about Sterling’s Mixed Martial Arts experience, his blog post 5 Cage-Fighting Tips for Self-Employed, some of his tips and hints for putting together a good online business, how his business (Bizlift) is setup, his appreciation for Open Source tools and technologies, and more.

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