From 1961 to 1975, practically before computers, a bunch of strange technologically-inclined people(including a lot of blind kids) started exploring the telephone system, blue boxing themselves several times around the world, and sometimes hacking right into long distance lines using something as simple as a plastic whistle.. the story turns quite fascinating when it runs into the late sixties and all sorts of counter-culture activists (and freaks) start getting hold of this knowledge..

Format: talk, about an hour

Also if there is time

N-DYMELTRYPTAMINE or the reality principle

Ayhuasca is a vegatable extract of great visionary power and surprising phamacological sophistication that has been in use by indigeneous people of the Amazon for thousands of years. In the past hundred years the substance has leaped to the general population of Brazil, giving rise to some very interesting syncretic phenomenons. We'll project a half an hour docuemntary filmed in Barzil last summer..

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