Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY and other novels, short stories, and nonfiction. He works for the Electronic…
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Interview with Toby Johnson – activist, psychotherapist, and spiritual writer; author of Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell.
Christopher Brown returns to the Plutopiaverse to discuss his new dystopian legal noir, Rule of Capture.
Robert Matney is Managing Director of Stream Integrity at New Knowledge, a company that detects, monitors, and mitigates social media manipulation — in various contexts, for diverse clients. The company…
Owen McNally is a researcher and technology analyst in Austin, Texas. An enduring theme in his work over recent decades is the analysis and evaluation of technology based on humanistic…
On February 17, Plutopia’s correspondents Scoop and Jon recorded a reading and talk by physician and science fiction author Michael Blumlein. Michael has published four novels and three story collections,…
Jake Dunagan: The Biology of Disinformation, Weaponized Memes and Viral Alt-Facts
Jake Dunagan is a research director at Institute for the Future (IFTF), where his focus is the examination of social invention and the redesign of systems in light of current…
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…
Many of us are searching for a conscious understanding and a clearer sense of the meaning of our lives in an interdependent evolutionary context, so that we can find our…
Michael Tobis considers himself a cyberneticist, in the original sense of the word cybernetic, where it suggests the optimal use of information in decision-making. He has two degrees in engineering…

