Former computer programmer turned author Ellen Ullman, author of Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, joined Plutopia News Network’s Maggie Duval for a conversation about engineering as a…
This year is the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s enigmatic sci-fi masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and the film has seen revival screenings in 70mm and Imax (the spectacular Imax…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
