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…
In part 2 of our interview with Joe Nick Patoski, we focus on essential Texas and Austin food, and on Austin’s unique cultural history and evolution. We cover a lot…
Joe Nick Patoski gives us an insider’s analysis of the changes wrought upon the state capital and “sleepy college town” that became an alternative to the stereotype of “Texas Culture.”
Vinay Gupta is CEO of Mattereum, an organization dedicated to “Organizing the world’s property and making it universally accessible and useful” – riffing on the Google mission statement and applying…
Brian Bushway lost his sight to optic nerve atrophy when he was 14 years old. Despite the loss of site, Brian finished high school, graduated from Pepperdine University, and pursued…
Writer and cultural critic Mark Dery has written (and fed into) cyberculture, Afrofuturism (a term he coined), and evil clowns, but his latest work is about the surreal illustrator and…
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,…
Bijoy Goswami is an energetic and insightful entrepreneurial philosopher based in Austin, coincidentally the wild west stomping ground for our Plutopia News Network. Author of The Human Fabric: Unleashing the…
Plutopia News Network recorded this talk by Jeremy Smith, Executive Director of Register2Vote, a TX 501c4 focused on increasing access to voting rights. Register2Vote and the related app, MapTheVote, are…