The Other Stuff with internetVin The Other Stuff #21 — Benjamin Parry: Infrastructure, Information, and the Medium as Message
Benjamin Parry (https://x.com/_benjaminparry)is currently building The Toronto Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
A conversation that moves from Mark Carney's small modular reactor announcements to the fragmentary nature of social media discourse, exploring how different mediums shape our capacity for understanding complex realities. The discussion weaves between technical policy details and deeper questions about direct experience versus mediated knowledge, ultimately asking whether we've lost the ability to engage with ideas without being "charged" by them.
The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, filmmaker and entrepreneur and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New.
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Timestamps
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Opening: Fall Reflections and GT Snow Racers
- 00:09:18 Mark Carney's Major Infrastructure Projects
- 00:19:32 Small Modular Reactors: Canada's Nuclear Future
- 00:26:03 The Physics and Engineering of Nuclear Power
- 00:44:28 Manufacturing Challenges and Global SMR Development
- 01:03:45 The St. Lawrence River and Montreal's Strategic Port
- 01:18:17 Halifax and Nova Scotia
- 01:41:58 Social Media, McLuhan, and the "Medium is the Message"
- 02:04:07 Direct Experience vs. Mediated Reality
- 02:14:34 Political Violence and the Need for Curiosity
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