Kevin Bullock joins us to discuss Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. We explore individual morality, the ethics of science, AI, human nature, selfhood and memory, and ghosts.

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 banal...

Matt Price – technology historian and professor – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics.

Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang.

Daniel X. O’Neil, the worldwide entertainment juggernaut of the 21st century, joins us to discuss T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

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 Du...

Johnny Rodgers joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its timeless for humans trying to make things for other humans.

George Dyson is on again, this time to talk about Childhood’s End and what it has to teach us about overlord technologies.

Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang’s masterful “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling.”

In February, Keith Garrett will be on to discuss “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. In March, George Dyson returns to discuss Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.

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, pare...

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. Nathani...

Mark Coatney, long-suffering digital media pioneer, gets me to finally read a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin and I loved it. Topics include our changing world, what the world is for, preindustrial longing...