Talk:A Short History of Progress

Lecture Availability

Keep your eyes open: I found the second lecture was available from the Ideas Canada podcast on www.radio4all.net.

Keep your eyes open as you never know more of the series of five lecture might become available through this service (search on radio4all or subscibe to trhe podcast and please update the links when this occurs... The complete package of five is available commercially from the publisher and CBC Canada and believe me they are VERY VERY good and certainly well worth the price! (The author has to make a buck after all and deserves to but I am hoping that with the release of the book and now after seemingly an upcoming documentary then the complete series of lectures might become more widely available. I for one will be looking out for the movie - congradulations Ronald Wright!) Mattjs 14:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

OK Done! I updated the article with the Audio CD Lecture details - least I can do since I got mine for nothing. Only thing is I don't have the subtitles for the last three lectures so someone who has the CDs might like to fill them in - the first two come from the Ideas Canada podcast of only the first two that are publicly available! The details of the individual lecture names are interesting and informative and bear in mind that the public Lectures (then the CD's), came before the Book! Mattjs 15:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually that is wrong the book was published before the lectures and has been corrected in the article. 122.148.173.37 (talk) 05:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually incorrect: the book was published after the Massey Lectures by Anansi Press. 122.148.173.37 (talk) 01:26, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Gosh: glad to see i am the only one taking an interest in this article (means i've got it all to myself). I am going to flesh it out with more details over the next week so please dont bother editing out or reverting any of the current almost "stub" sections. 122.148.173.37 (talk) 15:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

To Do List

Notes to myself and others:

(A) A little more on precautionary principle before conclusion?... 122.148.173.37 (talk) 05:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

(B) Have to weave Wright's comments on "elites" into the article... 122.148.173.37 (talk) 12:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

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(?) Merge book chapters with synopsis... eventually... mmm... maybe very eventually... 122.148.173.37 (talk) 13:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your enhancements – but please next time use the key "show preview" until you think it's done and then use "save page". Thus, you do not create a countless number of versions of the article. These versions make it hard for others to check what has been changed and also each version is stored until eternity at the Wikipedia servers, thus wasting memory space. Thank you in advance --Cyfal (talk) 19:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

OK I will do that. But wouldn't it be nice have an archive flush ability? You are right about show preview and I need to use it! But you can happily trash all previous versions of this article as there have been no major deletions or controversies. Regards, 122.148.173.37 (talk) 03:53, 21 May 2008 (UTC)