(Originally published in FringeWare Review) In 1993, Jon Lebkowsky had a chat with Tom Jennings, who asked afterwards: “Think you can mention somewhere that I’m a fag anarcho nerd troublemaker/activist?…
I created the list below for the State of the World 2018 conversation (which is something I do every year with Bruce Sterling). 2017 was a nervous year of overwrought…
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…
