Show Originating on Dec. 19, 2000

First Interview: Dr. Steve Jones
This is the second of three selections in the Winter Archive Series. Steve Jones, a regular columnist for the London Daily Telegraph, will discuss his famous book, Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated. He will update us on what today's science confirms about Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Dr. Jones will also comment on present-day Creationism.


Second Interview: George Shaffner
Moira's second interview is a new one. George Shaffner knows that lots of people hate math, but that didn't stop him from naming his book, The Arithmetic of Life. Shaffner will argue that you may not need to know calculus or trigonometry, but you got to have some arithmetic to understand everyday events. Shaffner, the CEO of three international software companies, fights against cultural innumeracy in ordinary language and humor.

Show Originating on Dec. 12, 2000

First Interview: Professor Lisa Jardine
An encore Tech Nation interview! Dr. Jardine, a Professor at the University of London, examines the scientific community in the 16th and 17th century in her book, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution.


Second Interview: Dr. Henry Gee
Dr. Gee, Chief Science Writer and Senior Editor for Nature magazine, will discuss his new book, In Search of Deep Time. Dr. Gee challenges the prevailing paradigm of how early life on planet earth evolved.

Show Originating on Dec. 5, 2000

First Interview: Dennis Bark
Dennis Bark is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, specializing in foreign affairs and relations between the United States and Europe. While those around him were attempting to hide from the Internet revolution, Dennis decided that he'd better find out what it's all about. He recounts this experience in his new book, Professor Bark's Amazing Digital Adventure.


Second Interview: Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D'Souza served as senior domestic policy analyst in the Carter White House. They'll discuss his latest book is The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence. They'll talk about the rise of a new "overclass" of techno-millionaires.

Show Originating on Nov. 28, 2000

First Interview: Joel Kotkin
Mr. Kotkin will discuss his new book, The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape. He'll take us on a tour of how the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape. Joel also writes the weekly column "Grass-Roots Business: in the Sunday New York Times, and is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times.


Second Interview: Hans-Peter Brondmo
Mr. Brondmo will share his insights of Internet direct marketing and his new book with Geoffery Moore, The Eng@ged Customer: The New Rules of Internet Direct Marketing.

Show Originating on Nov. 21, 2000

First Interview: David Bodanis
Moira begins today's show with an interview with David Bodanis, author of E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation. He was a lecturer at Oxford University as well as the Paris correspondent for the Herald Tribune. On this week's show, he will take us on a tour of the real people who ultimately led to the world's most famous equation, "E=mc²"


Second Interview: Tom Frank
Moira will also speak with Tom Frank, historian and founding editor of "The Baffler." They will be discussing the truths and myths about the Internet Age, and his new book, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy. He'll also answer the question, "What's the single biggest lie about the Internet economy?"

Show Originating on Nov. 14, 2000

First Interview: Jeff Bezos
An encore Tech Nation interview with the founder of Amazon.com. This amusing interview recorded in the Dark Ages of the Internet -- 1996! Tech Nation goes back in time to find out what Jeff Bezos was thinking before Amazon became a household word and I-P-O were 3 initials only a few had heard of.


Second Interview: Sergio Zyman
And now back to the present with the creative founder of Z Marketing in Atlanta. Moira and Sergio will talk about what it takes to be a world class Internet brand today, and discuss his new book, Building Brand-Width.

Show Originating on Nov. 7, 2000

First Interview: Anna Deavere Smith
Moira will talk with Anna Deavere Smith-actor, teacher, playwright and human observer. They will discuss how Ms. Smith goes about identifying genuine speech, and about her study of the American Presidency through its words.

Talk to Me! Listening Between the Lines,
by Anna Deavere Smith.

Second Interv
iew: Tracy Sugarman
Mr. Sugarman, noted illustrator and artist, recently published a recently-discovered collection of his World War II letters and drawings to his wife. They will also discuss his experience of the D-Day Invasion.

My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings,
by Tracy Sugarman.

Show Origination on Oct. 31, 2000

A special Tech Nation program. Dr. Moira Gunn hosts a panel discussion of leading women computer scientists at the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

The panel includes:

Mary Shaw
The Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Barbara Simons
Recent Past President of the ACM

Naseem Bhatti
Director, Computer Training Center
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology

Ruth Davis
Professor, Computer Engineering
Santa Clara University

Suze Woolf
Manager, Advanced Technology Integration Team
Microsoft Corporation

Fran Allen
T.J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corporation

Robin Jeffries
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems.

Satellite Uplink: 10-24-00

First Interview: Mark Breir
Mark's resume includes Vice-President of Marketing at Amazon.com and CEO of Beyond.com, and is considered one of Silicon Valley's hottest e-commerce consultants. Mr. Breir will discuss his latest book, The 10-Second Internet Manager.

Second Interview: Ellen Reid Smith
Ms. Reid Smith runs a popular Web marketing company, Reid Smith and Associates, and was previously Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at IBM. Her loyalty programs have been featured in such publications Brandweek, Adweek, Market Computers and many others.

Moira and Ellen with talk about her latest book, e_Loaylty: How to Keep Customers Coming Back to your Website.

Satellite Uplink: 10-17-00

First Interview: Dr. MARK PESCE
Dr. Pesce is the Founding Chair of the Interactive Media Program at the Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. He is also the creator to the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), which distributes 3D scenes over the Web.

Dr. Pesce will discuss his latest book: The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination.


Second Interview: Dr. HEIDI TOFFLER
Dr. Toffler, together with her husband and co-author, Alvin Toffler, has authored best-selling futurist books, such as Future Shock and The Third Wave, as well as Powershift, War and Anti-War.

Dr. Toffler's more recent book is Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave.

Satellite Uplink: 10-10-00

ROGER LOWENSTEIN,
Former reporter and columnist of The Wall Street Journal,
Author, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management.

MILES HARVEY,
Former managing editor of "In These Times" magazine,
Author, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime.

Satellite Uplink: 10-3-00

SRIVATS SAMPATH
President & CEO, McAfee.com
www.mcafee.com

MALCOLM THOMPSON
President & CEO, Novalux
www.novalux.com

Satellite Uplink: 9-26-00

PAULA SHARP
Author, "I LOVED THEM ALL"

SIMON SINGH
Keeper, "THE CIPHER CHALLENGE"
Author, "THE CODE BOOK
... The Evolution of Secrecy from
Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography"

Satellite Uplink: 9-19-00

MILES SPENCER
Co-Host, "Money Hunt"
Author, "MONEY HUNT - 27 New Rules for Creating and Growing a Breakaway Business"

PHIL CARPENTER
Author, "eBrands-Building an Internet Business at Breakneck Speed"

Satellite Uplink: 9-12-00

PETER MENZEL & FAITH D'ALUISIO
Co-Authors, "ROBOT SAPIENS
... Evolution of a New Species"

KEN GOLDBERG
Professor, UC, Berkeley
Internet/Robot Interactive Art Installations
Editor, "THE ROBOT IN THE GARDEN
... Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the
Age of the Internet"

Satellite Uplink: 9-5-00

ERIK LARSON
Author, "ISAAC'S STORM
... A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History"

ANDREA di SESSA
Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley & Researcher, Science Education
Author, "CHANGING MINDS
... Computers, Learning, and Literacy"

Satellite Uplink: 8-29-00

PETER HIRSHBERG & MICHAEL MARKMAN
TechnoRenaissance Males & Co-Creators, IPOcracy.com

PAULINA BORSOOK
Social Observer & Writer
Author, "CYBERSELFISH
... A Critical Romp Through the
Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech"

Satellite Uplink: 8-22-00

KATHY REICHS
Forensic Anthropologist & Novelist
Author, "DEADLY DECISIONS ... A Novel"

KRISTINE HANNA & PETER CROSBY
Co-Founders, GirlGeeks

Satellite Uplink: 8-15-00

PO BRONSON
Techno-Culture Observer & Writer
Author, "THE NUDIST ON THE LATE SHIFT
... And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley"
Author, "THE FIRST 20 MILLION IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST"

JEF RASKIN
Creator of the Macintosh Project at Apple
Author, "THE HUMANE INTERFACE"

Satellite Uplink: 8-8-00

CASEY CORR
Journalist, VH1
Author, "MONEY FROM THIN AIR
... The Visionary who Invented the Cell Phone Industry
... and His Next Billion-Dollar Idea"

GARY RIVLIN
Journalist, The Industry Standard
Author, "THE PLOT TO GET BILL GATES"

Satellite Uplink: 8-1-00

BILL FLANAGAN
Senior Vice President and Editorial Director, VH1
Author, "A & R ... A Novel"

JEFF GOODELL
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
Author, "SUNNYVALE
... The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family"

Satellite Uplink: 7-25-00

RANDALL STROSS
Contributing Editor, US News and World Report
Author, "EBOYS
... The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work"

STEVE CROSS
Founder & CEO, YourFreeStuff.com

Satellite Uplink: 7-18-00

THEODORE ROSZAK
Professor, California State University, Hayward
Author, "THE GENDERED ATOM
... Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science"

DR. SCIENCE
aka DAN COFFEY
Host, "Ask Dr. Science"

Satellite Uplink: 7-11-00

JEFFREY ROSEN
Professor, George Washington University Law School
Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic
Author, "THE UNWANTED GAZE
... The Destruction of Privacy in America"

JOEY ANUFF
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, suck.com
GARY WOLF
Contributor and Editor, Wired
Co-Authors, "DUMB MONEY
... Adventures of a Day Trader"

Satellite Uplink: 7-4-00

GEOFF MOORE
Author, "LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE
... Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet"
Author, "CROSSING THE CHASM"

TOM GABLE
Chairman and CEO, The Gable Group

Satellite Uplink: 6-27-00

LARRY LESSIG
Professor, Harvard Law School
Author, "CODE ... and Other Laws of Cyberspace"

PAUL LEVINSON
Visiting Professor, Fordham University
Author, "DIGITAL McLUHAN
... A Guide to the Information Millennium"

Satellite Uplink: 6-20-00

CAROLINE ALEXANDER
Author, "THE ENDURANCE
... Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition"

DR. SARAH BLAFFER HRDY
Emeritus Professor, U.C. Davis, Anthropology
Author, " MOTHER NATURE
... A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection"

Satellite Uplink: 6-13-00

ROSALYNN CARTER
Former First Lady of the United States
Author, "HELPING SOMEONE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS"

DIANE RHEM
Host, "The Diane Rhem Show"
Author, "FINDING MY VOICE"

Satellite Uplink: 6-6-00

TOM MURPHY
Founding Managing Editor, CBS MarketWatch
Author, "WEB RULES
... How the Internet Is Changing the Way Consumers Make Choices"

AL & LAURA RIES
Chairman and President, Ries & Ries
Co-Authors, "THE 11 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF INTERNET BRANDING"
Co-Authors, " THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING
... How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand"

Satellite Uplink: 5-30-00

SY MONTGOMERY
Nature Columnist, The Boston Globe
DIANNE TAYLOR-SNOW
Nature Photographer
Co-Authors, "THE JOURNEY OF THE PINK DOLPHINS
... An Amazon Quest"

MARY CATHERINE BATESON
Professor, George Mason University
Author, "Full Circles, Overlapping Lives
... Culture and Generation in Transition"

Satellite Uplink: 5-23-00

GENE KRANTZ
Former Flight Director, NASA
sAuthor, "Failure is Not an Option"

LORI FENA
Co-Founder & Chairman, TRUSTe
Author, "The Hundredth Window
... Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet"

Satellite Uplink: 5-16-00

GEORGE SAUNDERS
Professor, Creative Writing, Syracuse University
Author, "Pastoralia"

JIM LEHRER
Host, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Author, "The Special Prisoner"

Satellite Uplink: 5-9-00

DOROTHY LEONARD
Director of Research, Harvard Business School
WALTER SWAP
Dean of Colleges, Tufts University
Co-Authors, "When Sparks Fly
... Igniting Creativity in Groups"

ROGER LEWIN
Science Writer
BIRUTE REGINE
Developmental Psychologist
Co-Authors, "Complexity
... Life at the Edge of Chaos"

Satellite Uplink: 5-2-00

STEVE JONES
Columnist, London Daily Telegraph
Author, "Darwin's Ghost ... The Origin of Species Updated"

DR. DAVID BERLINSKI
Author, "The Advent of the Algorithm"

Satellite Uplink: 4-25-00

JEREMY RIFKIN
Social Observer
Author, "The Age of Access ... The New Culture of Capitalism
... Where All of Life is a Paid For Experience"

JOANNE CIULLA
Professor, University of Richmond
Author, "The Working Life
... The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work"

Satellite Uplink: 4-18-00

ROBERT SPECTOR
Author, "Amazon.Com
... Get Big Fast: Inside the Revolutionary Business
... Model That Changed the World"

DOUG MERRILL
Journalist and Futurist, Research Group for the Global Future University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Satellite Uplink: 4-11-00

LARRY PAGE & SERGEY BRIN
Co-Founders, Google

PETE GOETTNER
President, CEO & Co-Founder, DigitalThink

Satellite Uplink: 4-4-00

DR. SHERWIN NULAND
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine
Author, "The Mysteries Within
... A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths"

DR. JUDITH ORLOFF
Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA
Author, "Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing"

Satellite Uplink: 3-28-00

JOHN SEABROOK
Writer, The New Yorker
Author, "NoBrow: The Culture of Marketing
... and the Marketing of Culture"

McKAY JENKINS
Author, "The White Death
... Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone"

Satellite Uplink: 3-21-00

RICHARD HART
Host, CNET's "CNET Central" and "Tech Reports"

JOHN SEELY BROWN
Director, Xerox PARC
Author, "The Social Life of Information"

Satellite Uplink: 3-14-00

JON KATZ
Columnist, Media and Technology
Author, "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho"

DAVID BRANCACCIO
Host, "Marketplace"
Author, "Squandering Aimlessly
... My Adventures in the American Marketplace"

Satellite Uplink: 3-7-00

JIM TAYLOR
Management Consultant
Author, "The Visionary's Handbook
... Nine Paradoxes That will Shape the Future of Your Business"

CONNIE HALE & JESSIE SCANLON
Editors, "Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age"

Satellite Uplink: 2-29-00

COLIN THUBRON
World Traveler & Social Observer
Author, "In Siberia"  

GRAY BRECHIN
Historical Geographer
Author, "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin" 

Satellite Uplink: 2-22-00

ROBERT WRIGHT
Contributing editor, The New Republic, Slate
Author, "Nonzero ... The Logic of Human Destiny"  

DOC SEARLES,
Senior Editor, Linux Journal
Author, "The Cluetrain Manifesto"

Satellite Uplink: 2-15-00

FREDERICK LANE
Attorney and Consultant, Internet legal issues
Author, "Obscene Profits
... The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age"  

SIMSON GARFINKEL
Author, "Database Nation
... The Death of Privacy in the 21^st century"  

Satellite Uplink: 2-8-00

JEFFREY TOOBIN
ABC Legal Analyst
Author, "A Vast Conspiracy"  

GINA KOLATA
Science Reporter, The New York Times
Author, "Flu ... The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
... and the Search for the Virus that Caused It"   

Satellite Uplink: 2-1-00

JAMES CHAMPY
Editor, Fast Forward
Author, "The Arc of Ambition"  

TIMOTHY GALLWEY
Author, "The Inner Game of Tennis"
and "The Inner Game of Work"  

Satellite Uplink: 1-25-00

LISA JARDINE
Professor, University of London
Author, "Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution"  

DR. HENRY GEE
Chief Science Writer, Nature
Author, "In Search of Deep Time
... Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life"  

Satellite Uplink: 1-18-00

ANTONIO MENDEZ
Former Member, Central Intelligence Agency
Author, "The Master of Disguise
... My Secret Life in the CIA"  

KEN CROSWELL
Astronomer
Author, "Magnificent Universe"  

Satellite Uplink: 1-11-00

MARY MODAHL
Vice President for Research, Forrester Research
Author, "Now or Never
... How Companies Must Change Today
... to Win the Battle for Internet Customers"  

GEORGE SHAFFNER
Author, "The Arithmetic of Life"  

Satellite Uplink: 1-4-00

BOB EGGINGTON
Project Director, BBC News Online
JERRY TIMMINS,
BBC World Service Regional Head for the Americas

WADE DAVIS
Anthropologist
Author, "Shadows in the Sun
... Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire"