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Episode #28: George Dyson on The Tale of the Big Computer
George Dyson – historian, boat maker, and volunteer Staff Historian at Radiant Earth – returns for his fourth appearance to discuss The Tale of the Big Computer, written by Hannes Alfvén in 1966…
Episode #27: Justin Kiggins on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Justin Kiggins, neuroscientist, artisinal oboe reed maker, and builder at the intersection of AI and biology, joins us to discuss Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. We explore…
Episode #26: JB Flinders on Sneakers
JB Flinders – omnitechnologist, fellow Ute, and co-host of the Andy and Ammon's Excellent Odyssey podcast: joins us to discuss the 1993 film Sneakers. We discuss data as the primary seat of power,…
Episode #25: Kate Chapman on Wool by Hugh Howey
Kate Chapman, geographer and technologist, joins us to discuss Hugh Howey's Wool. We discuss failures of governance, the perils of IT supremacy, the difficult ethics of constrained environments, and…
Episode #24: Kevin Bullock on Pluribus by Vince Gilligan
Kevin Bullock joins us to discuss the sublime first season of Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. Yes, TV is a "text," especially when Vince Gilligan is making it. We talk about individual morality, the…
Episode #23: Cyd Harrell on “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
Cyd Harrell, devout civic technologist, joins us to discuss Jorge Luis Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." We talk about tungsten cubes, techno cults, and our guesses about the "horrifying or…
Episode #22: Marta Regn on “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” by Ted Chiang
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" on Wikipedia - note the fan art book coverRead "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" on MediumOr buy Exhalation: Stories, the collection containing this storyThe…
Episode #21: George Dyson on The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
George Dyson – historian, boat maker, and volunteer Staff Historian at Radiant Earth – returns to discuss Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud. We discuss the cultural conflicts that arise between scientists…
Episode #20: Mark Chambers on Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Mark Chambers – my friend from high school (and former Chief Sustainability Officer of DC and NYC among other things) – joins us to discuss Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. We talk about the…
Episode #19: Matt Price on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Matt Price – technology historian and dedicated educator – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke's Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics. No…
Episode #18: Noah Iliinsky on China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh's China Mountain Zhang. We talk about what matters, heavy furniture,…
Episode #17: Daniel X. O'Neil on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Daniel X. O'Neil, the worldwide entertainment juggernaut of the 21st century, joins us to discuss T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. You will learn almost nothing about The Waste Land from this discussion,…
Episode #16: Alex Merose on Convenience Store Woman
Alex Merose extols the virtues of lazy action and calls on us to embrace Duchamp into our hearts through discussion of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman and Maurizio Lazzarato's essay "Marcel…
Episode #15: Johnny Rodgers on A Pattern Language
Johnny Rodgers, my friend from Tumblr (among other things), joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. We explore how Alexander's design philosophy has endured and influenced not…
Episode #14: George Dyson on Childhood's End
I had the pleasure of recording this on-site with George in his Bellingham workshop (a former tavern). I experimented with having Claude write shownotes for this episode, and it proposed this as a…
Episode #13: Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang's masterful "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling." We talk about the benefits of forgetfulness, the…
Episode #12: Gina Trapani on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gina Trapani, exemplary human and champion of good things on the web, comes on to talk about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. We talk about creating universes, friendship,…
Episode #11: Nathaniel Raymond on Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, joins me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1974 film, The Conversation.…
Episode #10: Mark Coatney on A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mark Coatney, long-suffering digital media pioneer (Time! Newsweek! Tumblr! Al Jazeera!), gets me to finally read a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin and I loved it. Topics include our changing world, what…
Episode #9: Esther Dyson on Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Spike Jonze’s Her
Esther Dyson, whose bio defies summarization (and who happens to be sister of previous guest George Dyson), discusses Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Spike Jonze's Her. We discuss the substance…
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