Science fiction does more than predict future inventions. Stories are a testbed for exploring the unexpected ways people could incorporate technology into their cultures. Science journalist and novelist Annalee Newitz will discuss how scientists, innovators, and the rest of us benefit from the crucible of imaginative fictions. Her books include the novel Autonomous and the non-fiction Scatter, Adapt, and Remember.
The Interval at Long Now welcomesAnnalee Newitz (author, journalist)
Science Needs Fiction
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Thanks to Borderlands Books who will have Annalee's books on sale; she will sign after the talk.
"Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet."— Neal Stephenson (author of ?Anathem, ?Seveneves, ?Snow Crash)
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
"Few things are more enjoyable than touring the apocalypse from the safety of your living room. Even as Scatter, Adapt, and Remember cheerfully reminds us that asteroid impacts, mega-volcanos and methane eruptions are certain to come, it suggests how humankind can survive and even thrive."— Charles Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet and 1491
Annalee Newitz is the author of the bestselling novel Autonomous. Her nonfiction book Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She is the founding editor of io9.com and formerly the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Currently she is editor-at-large for Ars Technica.
Her work has appeared in New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Technology Review, 2600, and many other publications. Formerly she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She received a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.
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The Interval at Long Now welcomesAnnalee Newitz (author, journalist)
Science Needs Fiction
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Thanks to Borderlands Books who will have Annalee's books on sale; she will sign after the talk.
"Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet."— Neal Stephenson (author of ?Anathem, ?Seveneves, ?Snow Crash)
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
"Few things are more enjoyable than touring the apocalypse from the safety of your living room. Even as Scatter, Adapt, and Remember cheerfully reminds us that asteroid impacts, mega-volcanos and methane eruptions are certain to come, it suggests how humankind can survive and even thrive."— Charles Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet and 1491
Annalee Newitz is the author of the bestselling novel Autonomous. Her nonfiction book Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She is the founding editor of io9.com and formerly the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Currently she is editor-at-large for Ars Technica.
Her work has appeared in New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Technology Review, 2600, and many other publications. Formerly she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She received a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.
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Science fiction does more than predict future inventions. Stories are a testbed for exploring the unexpected ways people could incorporate technology into their cultures. Science journalist and novelist Annalee Newitz will discuss how scientists, innovators, and the rest of us benefit from the crucible of imaginative fictions. Her books include the novel Autonomous and the non-fiction Scatter, Adapt, and Remember.
The Interval at Long Now welcomesAnnalee Newitz (author, journalist)
Science Needs Fiction
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Thanks to Borderlands Books who will have Annalee's books on sale; she will sign after the talk.
"Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet."— Neal Stephenson (author of ?Anathem, ?Seveneves, ?Snow Crash)
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
"Few things are more enjoyable than touring the apocalypse from the safety of your living room. Even as Scatter, Adapt, and Remember cheerfully reminds us that asteroid impacts, mega-volcanos and methane eruptions are certain to come, it suggests how humankind can survive and even thrive."— Charles Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet and 1491
Annalee Newitz is the author of the bestselling novel Autonomous. Her nonfiction book Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She is the founding editor of io9.com and formerly the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Currently she is editor-at-large for Ars Technica.
Her work has appeared in New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Technology Review, 2600, and many other publications. Formerly she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She received a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.
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The Interval at Long Now welcomesAnnalee Newitz (author, journalist)
Science Needs Fiction
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Thanks to Borderlands Books who will have Annalee's books on sale; she will sign after the talk.
"Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet."— Neal Stephenson (author of ?Anathem, ?Seveneves, ?Snow Crash)
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
"Few things are more enjoyable than touring the apocalypse from the safety of your living room. Even as Scatter, Adapt, and Remember cheerfully reminds us that asteroid impacts, mega-volcanos and methane eruptions are certain to come, it suggests how humankind can survive and even thrive."— Charles Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet and 1491
Annalee Newitz is the author of the bestselling novel Autonomous. Her nonfiction book Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She is the founding editor of io9.com and formerly the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Currently she is editor-at-large for Ars Technica.
Her work has appeared in New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Technology Review, 2600, and many other publications. Formerly she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She received a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.
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