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    Kevin Welch: Net Neutrality 101

    Plutopia News NetworkJuly 18, 201803K views

    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…

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    Anne Boysen: Millennials and Culture Change

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 26, 201803.8K views

    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…

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    Beyond Blockchain to Holochain: A Conversation with Arthur Brock

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 14, 201815K views

    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…

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    Tumbleweed Smith: 50 Years Ahead of the Curve!

    Plutopia News NetworkJune 5, 201803.9K views

    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…

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    Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: The Man with the Bass

    Plutopia News NetworkMay 13, 201806.4K views

    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…

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    Christopher Brown, author of Tropic of Kansas

    Plutopia News NetworkApril 19, 201835.6K views

    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…

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    Ed Ward: The Future of Food

    Plutopia News NetworkApril 11, 201103K views

    Our second Ed Ward interview is an informed discussion of the future of food.

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    Ed Ward: The Future of Music

    Plutopia News NetworkApril 1, 201102.8K views

    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…

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    Border Reality: Plutopia Interview with Tom Miller

    Plutopia News NetworkMarch 29, 201102.9K views

    “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…

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    Tom Jennings: “High tech has become a cult of money”

    Plutopia News NetworkMarch 24, 201105.6K views

    “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…

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    Plutopia Interview: David DeMaris aka DJ Dr. Strangevibe

    Plutopia News NetworkMarch 10, 201102.9K views

    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…

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    Plutopia Interview: Orbotix Cofounder Ian Bernstein

    Plutopia News NetworkMarch 9, 201103.3K views

    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…

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    R.U. Sirius: 20 Minutes into the Future

    Plutopia News NetworkFebruary 8, 201103.1K views

    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.…

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    Doug Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed

    Plutopia News NetworkJanuary 26, 201103.2K views

    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…

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