Edge Cases

Fillers and Spillers

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about his Çingleton 3 presentation, “Fillers and Spillers”: his terms for those who advance human progress (such as scientist, engineers, and artists) and those who propagate those advancements to everyone else.

Links:

• Çingleton Conference
• Wolf Rentzsch tweet: “the entirety of my political philosophy in one animated gif http://imgur.com/oYr4LxF”
• The Prince « Wikipedia
• USA Today « Wikipedia
• Popular Science « Wikipedia
• Discover (magazine) « Wikipedia
• New Scientist « Wikipedia
• Walmart « Wikipedia
• Thomas Kinkade « Wikipedia
• Banksy « Wikipedia
• [C4 release]; « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Q&A with Rentzsch « The Macalope
• Advanced Technology Group « Wikipedia

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Not a Method Dispatch to Be Found
• All of Humanity’s Progress Is Based on Technology
• Not Fighting over Animal Carcasses
• A Spectrum of Respect
• Crusty Graybeard Scientists
• Apple Has, at Times, Lost Sight of Its Fillers
• This Brings Us to Section 3.3.1
• Thou Shalt Not Use Flash
• The Schillers
• A Fiduciary Duty
• I’m Just Describing the Players
• Happy in My Own Little World of Technology
• I’m All for Setting More Fires