Wednesday Mystery

Delusional music from the 'Roaring Twenties' and 'Dirty Thirties' news clips and audio blips and quips from the radical radio universe. In this episode the evening's "mystery" will be (from Vermont's Equal Time Radio notes): Is the present financial collapse a blip on the road to a high-tech future full of quantum computers, smart robots, and space tourism, or are we seeing the beginning of the collapse of the US empire, leading to shortages of basic goods, breakdown of government services, and breakup of the United States? Or could both happen at the same time? Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, joins the discussion with William Halal, author of Technology's Promise: Expert Knowledge on the Transformation of Business and Society. Carl Etnier hosts. ... in three parts as aired on Vermont's WDEV 23/Feb/09