Y2K & Tech Prophecy

Software engineering consultant Edward Yourdon, author of Time Bomb 2000, joins Art Bell to break down the Y2K computer crisis from the programming side after live Hurricane Bonnie coverage from North Carolina. Art takes calls from residents enduring 100-mile-per-hour winds and widespread power outages affecting 240...

Art Bell welcomes Stuart Rodman, a researcher who has studied the North American Electric Reliability Council's assessment of Y2K vulnerabilities in the continental power grid. Rodman explains that the real threat lies not in computers, which handle mostly billing functions, but in automated embedded chips found in...

Art Bell opens the phone lines with Y2K just sixteen days away, fielding calls from across North America as anxiety builds toward the millennium rollover. He reports that a Nebraska bank posted signs limiting cash withdrawals to three thousand dollars, sparking the very panic officials hoped to avoid. Massachusetts...

Art Bell broadcasts a special early edition on New Year's Eve, beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific time to track the millennium's arrival across every time zone. News reports confirm that Y2K computer fears have so far produced only minor glitches worldwide, though a credit card failure across Britain days earlier serves as...

Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green, the 77-year-old editor of 73 Magazine, to discuss a landmark FCC ruling that reduces the Morse code requirement for all amateur radio license classes to just five words per minute. Both men celebrate the change as essential to reversing the steep decline in new ham operators, noting th...

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku to discuss how science will reshape daily life in the 21st century. Dr. Kaku describes what he calls the third stage of computing, predicting that by 2020 computer chips will cost a penny and be embedded in clothing, eyeglasses, and even toilets that monitor he...

Wayne Green, legendary publisher of 73 Magazine and founder of Byte magazine, joins Art Bell for a sprawling conversation that covers nearly every frontier of human curiosity. Green, who has visited 132 countries, piloted nuclear submarines, and helped launch the personal computer revolution, brings his trademark ma...

Art Bell speaks with Peter Cochrane, former head of British Telecom Research, about pervasive electronic surveillance. Cochrane explains RFID technology, tiny radio chips that will replace barcodes on every product, enabling instant scanning and tracking goods from factory to consumer. He describes how shipping cont...

Art Bell is joined by Dr. Lauren Weinstein, one of the original architects of the internet who began his involvement in the early 1970s at the first ARPANET site. Lauren co-founded People for Internet Responsibility and created the Privacy Forum over twelve years ago. Together they examine how the network originally...

Art Bell welcomes George Ure and his associate Cliff, a software programmer who developed "web bot" technology originally designed to predict stock market movements. Using intelligent software agents that scan the internet for emotionally charged language, they stumbled onto something far larger than financial forec...

Art Bell interviews technology author Howard Rheingold about the social implications of the Internet and mobile communication revolution. The conversation opens with the staggering growth of connectivity, from a few hundred thousand users a decade earlier to nearly half a billion people online, and Rheingold argues...

Nostradamus scholar John Hogue joins Art Bell to discuss Y2K, religion, terrorism prophecy, and Nostradamus after Art's postmortem on the millennium rollover. Art opens with a postmortem on Y2K, declaring it largely a non-event while urging listeners to keep their emergency preparations for increasingly severe weath...

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Colm Kelleher of the National Institute for Discovery Science about early results from their new UFO hotline, then shifts to preparedness experts Stan and Holly Deyo broadcasting from Australia. Kelleher describes roughly 70 reports received in just weeks, including a massive silent triangul...

Art Bell welcomes Lia Marie Danks, author of Building Your Arc, to discuss Y2K preparedness from a practical, household perspective. Danks, a Texas native living in rural Arkansas, shares that her research began three years earlier when a college professor handed her an early draft of Ed Yourdon's Time Bomb 2000. Sh...

Art Bell interviews Gary North, a prolific author and economist who has spent years documenting the Year 2000 computer problem. North lays out a cascading failure scenario rooted in the original programming shortcut of using two-digit dates on 1950s punch cards, a practice that spread throughout decades of mainframe...

Wayne Green, legendary publisher of 73 Magazine and lifelong ham radio operator, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging conversation that spans decades of adventure and unconventional thinking. From his World War II submarine service to his views on the decline of amateur radio, Green brings a rebellious spirit to every...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for an update on the much-discussed November 7th date and the mysterious objects reportedly captured on video during a solar eclipse in Turkey. Hoagland reveals that after extensive analysis, the objects turned out to be flashbulbs and light poles in a crowd shot, undermining th...

Art Bell returns after a six-month absence to welcome Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of technology, nuclear threats, and parallel worlds. The discussion begins with the Mumbai terror attacks and quickly pivots to the nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan, where Dr. Kaku explains...

Art Bell welcomes internet pioneer Lauren Weinstein to discuss privacy, censorship, and the future of the web. Broadcasting from Manila, Art reflects on online censorship in the Philippines, where religious influence has led to content filtering, and asks Weinstein how such filtering works technically. Weinstein exp...

Art Bell welcomes internet pioneer Lauren Weinstein to discuss digital privacy and technology's impact on society. Weinstein addresses the battle between piracy and legitimate downloading, warning that overly broad copy protection measures could harm non-infringing uses. He examines the NSA domestic surveillance con...

Art Bell welcomes pole shift researcher Lloyd Stewart Carpenter, who presents alarming scientific indicators suggesting the Earth may be approaching a magnetic reversal. Lloyd reports that the sun's magnetic field has doubled since 1963 according to Russian scientists, that the Chandler wobble has mysteriously stopp...

Art Bell welcomes Professor Jan Newcomb Hodges, a robotics pioneer who built the first mobile robot to enter the damaged Three Mile Island reactor in 1979. Hodges explains how his decades of work in robotics, including systems for bomb squads, space exploration, and the stealth B-2 bomber program, led him into parti...

Art Bell interviews Kevin Mitnick, widely regarded as the world's most famous computer hacker, in his first appearance on the program after years of listener requests. Mitnick traces his fascination with technology back to age 16, when he and friends physically entered a Pacific Bell facility and walked out with tec...

Art Bell hosts a debate between Richard C. Hoagland and Wayne Green over a Fox television special questioning whether Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Hoagland, who served as Walter Cronkite's science advisor during the missions, addresses claims about missing stars in photographs, inconsistent shadows, and rad...

Art Bell devotes this deeply personal broadcast to addressing a nightmare that has consumed his life for over a year. He introduces his attorney, Gerald Fox of Fox, Sigler and Spillane in Los Angeles, to explain two major defamation lawsuits filed on Art's behalf. The first targets Ted Gunderson, David Hinkson, and...

Art Bell opens with a quick update from Richard C. Hoagland on the predicted December 7th event in central Arizona. Hoagland identifies Turret Mountain, located at the geometric center of the state, as the specific location where something may occur. He provides coordinates and warns listeners that the situation cou...

Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green, veteran ham radio publisher and technology pioneer, for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with health controversies before veering into one of the most provocative claims in modern history. Wayne argues that the Apollo moon landings were faked, citing the absence of stars in luna...

Philip Hoag, a Montana-based preparedness expert and author of No Such Thing as Doomsday, joins Art Bell to make the case that civilian shelter building is not paranoia but practical necessity. Hoag draws on over a decade of hands-on experience, including organizing the construction of a 7,000-square-foot undergroun...

Wayne Green, the iconoclastic editor and publisher of 73 Magazine, returns for a wide-ranging conversation with Art Bell covering amateur radio, cold fusion energy, electronic health devices, and his famous list of books that challenge conventional thinking. Green, who helped pioneer repeater technology that became...

Wayne Green, editor and publisher of 73 Magazine since 1960, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging conversation beginning with the history and future of amateur radio. Green recounts starting a radio teletype newsletter in 1949, editing CQ Magazine, and launching 73 Magazine after selling his Porsche, airplane, and boat...

Art Bell opens the show with a startling announcement: all long-distance telephone service to Pahrump, Nevada, has been down since late afternoon, leaving him unable to take calls from the outside world. With only local lines working, he transforms the broadcast into an unprecedented Pahrump-only open lines night, i...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for an all-topics evening and designates a special line for callers to share their worst dating experiences. Listeners recount tales of forgotten concert tickets, disastrous blind dates, jealous roommates, and being thrown out on Christmas Eve in a Montana snowstorm. Art also discusses...

Art Bell interviews Joel Skousen, a high-security designer and consultant who authored Strategic Relocation: North American Guide to Safe Places. Skousen identifies two primary strategic threats facing the United States: the Y2K computer crisis and a future nuclear attack from Russia that he believes Western elites...

Art Bell welcomes Terence McKenna, calling from a remote solar-powered home on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano via a cutting-edge one-megabyte wireless internet link. McKenna surveys recent scientific milestones including anti-gravitational forces, water on the moon, and quantum teleportation. He and Art consider whether...

Art Bell welcomes science writer Jennifer Ouellette, author of "The Physics of the Buffyverse" and "Black Bodies and Quantum Cats," for a conversation exploring the intersection of real physics and science fiction. They discuss the newly announced 16-qubit quantum computer from a Vancouver company, and Ouellette exp...

Art Bell speaks with Roger Tolces, a Los Angeles private investigator specializing in electronic countermeasures, about the erosion of privacy under warrantless wiretapping and data mining. The conversation follows House passage of a bill legalizing the Bush administration surveillance program, with Art playing devi...