Protesting Pai with Wi-Fi
EFF-Austin activists organized a “silent, very nerdy: protest when Ajit Pai gave a talk in Austin on August 3. The organization set up wifi hotspots that would be visible to…
EFF-Austin activists organized a “silent, very nerdy: protest when Ajit Pai gave a talk in Austin on August 3. The organization set up wifi hotspots that would be visible to…
What is net neutrality, from the activist’s perspective, and from a technical perspective? The term was coined in 2003 by Tim Wu as an extension of the common carrier concept,…
Is net neutrality dead? Many are confused about net neutrality and what its elimination means. Jon and Scoop joined EFF-Austin president Kevin Welch for a brief interview before his talk…
Anne Boysen is a strategic foresight professional and international speaker who consults for nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies on consumer trends and generational change. Boysen uses strategic foresight to help…
Arthur Brock devotes his time to projects that he believes support and accelerate the harmonious evolution of humanity, most recently building targeted currencies to shape the social dynamics of an…
It seems everyone wants to be an indie producer. ITunes has 250,000 podcasts online, with more coming online every day, and YouTube has tons of independent content, and a passel…
We discuss the state and future of free jazz with one of the hardest working bassists in contemporary jazz, Ingebright Håker Flaten. Born in Norway, Ingebrigt migrated to Austin, Texas, drawn…
Christopher Brown is the author of Tropic of Kansas: A Novel, published in 2017 by Harper Voyager. He was a World Fantasy Award nominee for the anthology he co-edited, Three…
Our second Ed Ward interview is an informed discussion of the future of food.
In 2011,we conducted this interview with Ed Ward, author of The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963 and Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar…
“Miller is as quirky and delightful as ever, treating the Southwest as a vast midden from which he plucks many odorous but tasty treasures. The fun, as usual, comes from…
“I don’t call myself an artist, I just make things.” Tom Jennings builds bridges between technology and art, and is currently on faculty with the Calarts Art+Technology Program. He’s a…
David DeMaris is a brilliant convergent renaissance man. By day he’s engaged in the design of VLSI (very large-scale integration) systems, but his interests also include nonlinear dynamics and oscillation…
We learned about Orbotix and its product, Sphero™, a smartphone-controlled robotic ball, when they signed on as a sponsor of Plutopia 2011. When we saw the video of Sphero™ in…
RU Sirius (aka Ken Goffman), as instigator of Reality Hackers and cofounder and executive editor of Mondo 2000, was a seminal figure in the emerging technoculture of the computer-mediated 1990s.…
Douglas Rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age. He is the author of fifteen bestselling books on media, technology, and…