For those of you living near San Francisco you can go to donate-what-you-wish Long Now Foundation lectures where "the conversation is very different" -- informative and useful, I'd add (I attend as regularly as possible).

For those of you not living near San Fran', there is a newsletter that includes Stewart Brand's summaries of the events usually the day after they've happened.

Schedule and newsletter signups available at http://www.longnow.org/

And please don't forget that while time flies like the wind, fruit flys like bananas.