What is the role of the sci-fi author today? Few people, if any, are more qualified to tackle this question than our guest today, media ecologist and author Paul Levinson. Listen to the beginning of what is sure to be an ongoing conversation on

002 Rachael Morrison—Joybubbles

Sep 8th, 2020 40m 48s

Before computer hacking, the analogue, mechanical telephone system was the play-thing of "phone phreaks" like Steve Wozniak. But few are aware of the unbelievable life of this subversive past-time's founder—Joybubbles—who started it all in the

001 Derrick de Kerckhove—The Digital Twin

Aug 27th, 2020 40m 59s

Is there any hope our private selves aren't too far gone? Does total surveillance and data analytics pull our agency and very being inside-out? Are we becoming, as McLuhan said of Narcissus over fifty years ago, "the servomechanism of [our] own

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