Podcasts about Anathem

Let's talk about books today. What was the last book that inspired you? Was it a novel, a non-fiction book, a design book, a music book or a cookbook?    In this episode, I share three books that inspired my sound way of thinking, experiencing the world with an open ear and what has led to developing music thinking, the framework, the jam cards, the book and the podcast.  I will briefly discuss Nada Brahma by Joachim Ernst Berend, The Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer, and The Glass Bead Game, the prize-winning novel by Hermann Hesse. These three books directly and indirectly influenced the ideas in The Power of Music Thinking.  But my book also influenced another author, and he used parts of the music thinking framework described in the book to explain his idea of rebels in digital development in Belgium.  Today I speak with Geert de Mol, a CDO for the leading Belgian Bank for 16 years, during their development of ‘the best app in the world'. Geert is a music lover of rock and pop, and he shares with us how music thinking and the book helped him to pen his story.   Show notes Connect with Geert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geert-van-mol-1779812/  Music from the world of Anathem: https://soundcloud.com/ztutz/sets/iolet-music-from-the-world-of-anathem    Show support Please choose one or more of the ‘three ways to support the show': Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps! I appreciate your support; it helps the show! Tell your friends about the podcast and musicthinking.com Buy the book The Power of Music Thinking and/or the Jam Cards at a 20% discount using musicthinking20 at the check-out of the BIS Publishers website only.​​

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ladislav Thon (@ladicek) about: Didaktik Gama to Red Hat, early programming experiences with Basic and Karel, learning Pascal and C in school, working with Java in university and early career, joining Red Hat as a quality engineer for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, testing clustering and load balancing with SmartFrog, transitioning to WildFly Swarm / Thorntail development, becoming Thorntail project lead, moving to quarkus development, involvement in CDI specification improvements, discussion about portable extensions in CDI, interest in science fiction literature, mention of favorite authors and books including Neal Stephenson's Anathem and The Expanse series Ladislav Thon on github: @ladicek

The algorithm has come to rule media, and it is a voracious beast. It consumes as much content as people can create, as often as they can create. The ones who rise to the top seem to be those who create the most content, on as many platforms as possible, but what do the economics of this look like? Mark asks the question whether playing the content game is worth it for a business, and if so, what kind of business?   Many would agree that making content purely for quantity's sake, to appease the algorithm and get in front of as many eyeballs as possible, can be a soul sucking endeavour, but not all businesses seem to benefit equally from this type of marketing effort. Some businesses, espcially highly skilled service providers, do just fine relying on word of mouth marketing, and in fact, the more ubiquitous content creation becomes, the more special and valuable word of mouth referrals become.   Books referenced in this episode: Anathem by Neal Stephenson   Mark Butler The Money School: https://moneyschool.works https://markbutler.com https://letsdothebooks.com   YNAB https://www.youneedabudget.com

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss Sarah's revenge birthday pick while Amberlee and Kim struggle to make sense while sick with a cold.

Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Anathem, returns to Lexman for an intense discussion on lal, catechumenates, purveyance, geyserite, and ninepins.

Plato is one of the towering figures in the world of philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead infamously called all of Western philosophy a series of footnotes to Plato. In this episode, we discuss Plato's Apology. This dialogue is a great introduction to reading Plato. For one, it is much shorter than texts like Republic. It is also dialectically straightforward — since most of the text is a monologue from Socrates, it can be easier to grasp the structure of the arguments. And finally, it is emotionally engaging in a way that some of Plato's other dialogues are not. → Support us on SubstackFor $5 per month, you get access to bonus episodes and discussion thread, plus you get to help us choose future books for the show. www.theclassicalmind.com→ Read along with us!We post the books in advance, giving listeners time to read these great books. Check out our reading list. → End NotesEvery month, we each recommend a book or other piece of media.Wesley: ‘Gorgias' by Plato and Plato's Philosophers by Catherine ZuckertJared: ‘Timaeus' by Plato and Anathem by Neil Stephenson→ Contact and Social MediaTwitter: @mindclassicalTikTok: @theclassicalmindpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Kyj04yISmHr1V-UlJz4egEmail: theclassicalmind@substack.com Get full access to The Classical Mind at www.theclassicalmind.com/subscribe

Guest Samuel Wein Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. On today's episode, we are very excited to have as our guest, Samuel Wein, who is a core developer and Executive Chairman of the OpenMS Foundation, a Post Doc at University of Tuebingen in Germany, and the head of a software consultancy specializing in analysis of RNA using Mass Spectrometry. Samuel fills us in on OpenMS and Mass Spectrometry and how he's trying to make it better and expand it. He explains more about the governance process, how the funding process is going, training programs he's done, and an internship program in the works to get more diversity. Samuel shares some great groups to get involved in the open source projects sciences area, and what he would like to change with OpenMS. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more! [00:02:14] Samuel is a scientist, so we find out how he ended up being a coder. [00:03:27] Samuel explains OpenMS and Mass Spectrometry, and Justin wonders if this was instrumental in the mRNA research from Moderna and the other place that Pfizer teamed up with. [00:06:47] Justin wonders how many times Samuel has been trying to get recruited from companies, such as Moderna, since they are probably looking for people like Samuel, and what's keeping him away from them. [00:08:14] Richard wonders what the governance process was like. [00:11:09] Samuel has three partnerships for funding right now and Justin wonders if they are his go-to or if he needs to get more funding from different partners. [00:13:08] Richard asks Samuel if he can talk about how he's keeping the project from ending up bending the corporate interest and what it looks like for him. [00:14:29] Justin wonders what other revenue streams Samuel has besides his donors and grants and if he has any training programs that he's put together. [00:17:34] Besides documentation, Richard is curious to know if Samuel could think of looking at his organization and then the wider field as a whole of really improving JEDI work, and if there's anything he's working on besides that. [00:20:00] Samuel explains how people can get involved and what was helpful for him. [00:22:17] We find out what Samuel is interested in learning and changing, as well as other things he's interested in doing with OpenMS. [00:24:07] Samuel suggests some groups that have useful to him to join, such as Open Bio, EuBIC-MS, and HUPO PSI. [00:25:45] Find out where you can follow Samuel on the internet. Quotes [00:08:19] “My experience with scientific projects developed in labs is that they unfortunately tend to have a lifecycle that is contingent upon the career path of the core developer.” [00:08:45] "There are issues with sustainability and maintainability once the original developer has left.” [00:09:39] “[On community organizing in OSS] It's all volunteer, it's all passion projects, and you need to steer people towards their passions.” [00:16:20] “We're looking for a Community Manager.” [00:22:41] “I would like to convince more scientists of the importance of choosing their software based on it's openness.” Spotlight [00:27:23] Justin's spotlight is BioJS. [00:27:56] Richard's spotlight is _The Wheel of Time _books by Robert Jordan. [00:28:45] Samuel's spotlight is Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Samuel Wein PhD Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-wein-phd-20700323) Samuel Wein GitHub (https://github.com/poshul) OpenMS (https://www.openms.de/) sam@samwein.com (mailto:sam@samwein.com) Otakon (https://www.otakon.com/) Open Bioinformatics Foundation (https://www.open-bio.org/) EuBIC-MS (European Bioinformatics Community for Mass Spectrometry) (https://eubic-ms.org/) HUPO-PSI (HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative) (https://psidev.info/) BioJs (https://biojs.net/#/) [The Eye of the World: Book One of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan](https://www.amazon.com/Eye-World-Book-Wheel-Time/dp/1250832365/ref=sr14?keywords=the+wheel+of+time&qid=1639498260&sr=8-4) [Anathem by Neal Stephenson](https://www.amazon.com/Anathem-Neal-Stephenson/dp/006147410X/ref=sr13?crid=16WXX28YH3HTQ&keywords=neil+stevenson+books&qid=1639498801&sprefix=neil+ste%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-3) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Samuel Wein.

This week I am talking again with Eager Question about another fascinating book, Anathem. This book is involved and interesting and requires its readers to think with a critical mind while challenging them to relate fiction to reality in new ways and it was an honor to get to learn about it from an enthusiastic reader! To hear more from Eager Question check out her subreddit r/Eager_Question_Writes and soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/eager-question/tracks You can also check out her book list here https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/61635722-oriana-carciente?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=to-read To submit to be on the show you may use the website https://theturtlestack.wixsite.com/theturtlestack Help grow the turtle stack by rating, liking and subscribing https://ratethispodcast.com/theturtlestack Intro and Outro music credit to NewsSting by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4124-newssting License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Memes. Are they propaganda or something worse? Nate and i talk about another Stephenson book as a way of avoiding finishing Anathem. Nate read Snow Crash years ago; I read it for the first time this month. We talk about language, rationality, and the internet.Lisa Swanstrom - "Capsules and Nodes and Ruptures and Flows: Circulating Subjectivity in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40649585] Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) [https://www.openculture.com/2019/06/michel-foucault-and-noam-chomsky-debate-human-nature-power-on-dutch-tv-1971.html]Follow me on Instagram at @unknownreasonspodEmail - unknownreasonspodcast@gmail.comMusic is "Signal to Noise" by Scott Buckley [https://www.free-stock-music.com/scott-buckley-signal-to-noise.html] 

The plot is starting to pick up speed but we still have a long way to go. We spend a lot of time talking about boxes and putting things in them, in terms of quantum mechanics and politics. We ask the important questions like "where did Schrodinger get that box?"Follow me on Instagram at @unknownreasonspodEmail - unknownreasonspodcast@gmail.comMusic is "Signal to Noise" by Scott Buckley [https://www.free-stock-music.com/scott-buckley-signal-to-noise.html]

Nate returns to talk about part 2 of Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Still lots of descriptions of architecture, but at least we finally get out of the math and into the Secular World.Follow me on Instagram at @unknownreasonspodEmail - unknownreasonspodcast@gmail.comMusic is "Signal to Noise" by Scott Buckley [https://www.free-stock-music.com/scott-buckley-signal-to-noise.html]

Just when you thought we were done with Anathem, get ready for some shameless fanservice/host indulgence. Really though, adding this to our earlier coverage of Anathem feels like the completing of a personal project of worth. Hope it does something for anyone else too!   Read Beyond Critique's chapter on Foucault   Editing by Luisa Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals: http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/   Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy   Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/   Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com   If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you!   Sibling shows:   Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/   Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/   Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/   Recent appearances:  Aaron was recently on Cog Dis to talk Monster Island. Show some cult love! https://dissonancepod.libsyn.com/episode-547-aaron-rabinowitz-v4c-2019-part-9?tdest_id=124104   CONTENT PREVIEW: Listener Q and A

My guest Nate is a friend and colleague from grad school. We discuss first part of Anathem. We give an overview of the book and explain somethings that come up in part 1 which leads us to talking about Platonism, parallel worlds, and academia. Follow me on Instagram at @unknownreasonspodMusic is "Signal to Noise" by Scott Buckley [https://www.free-stock-music.com/scott-buckley-signal-to-noise.html]

The incantor chanting was successful! We've reached the timeline where we all survived Anathem and learned a valuable lesson about picking the right timeline. Thanks again to Noah for chanting us safely through and hope you enjoy this discussion of Polycosmic Platonism.  Many Worlds Interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#:~:text=The%20many%2Dworlds%20interpretation%20(MWI,some%20%22world%22%20or%20universe. Arbre to Earth Translations:  https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Arbre_Correlations Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/  Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/  Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances:  Aaron had a wonderful time with This Film is Lit talking about the epic A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. Stick around for me trying to keep it together through reading the afterword.  https://thisfilmislit.podiant.co/e/a-scanner-darkly-feat-aaron-rabinowitz-388b34bda8a870/ CONTENT PREVIEW: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Buddhist Care Ethics

The epic longnwalkin continues with Anthem part two! We cross Arbre and 120 years of philosophical history at the same time. I do my best to explain how philosophy got really obsessed with language for a few decades in the early 1900's and now philosophy is healing. Arbre seems to have never escaped the linguistic turn and that fact explains so much of the subtext of the Mathic world. Hope this helps add another layer of interesting to the mix. The Linguistic Turn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn#:~:text=The%20linguistic%20turn%20was%20a,language%20users%2C%20and%20the%20world. Nominalism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-metaphysics/ Arbre to Earth Translations:  https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Arbre_Correlations Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/  Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/  Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances:  Aaron had a wonderful time with This Film is Lit talking about the epic A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. Stick around for me trying to keep it together through reading the afterword.  https://thisfilmislit.podiant.co/e/a-scanner-darkly-feat-aaron-rabinowitz-388b34bda8a870/ CONTENT PREVIEW: Anathem and Polycosmic Protism Term pt.3

Pod-Apert has finally arrived! Throw open the doors of the RSS feed and let some causal wisdom trickle down the wick. We're doing a three part journey though Neal Stephenson's Anathem, and we're joined by the Grandfraa Jad to my Fraa Erasmus, Noah Lugeons! This is by far the most requested pairing of material and guest we've ever had, and there's no question why. This is what this show was built for. For part one, we cover Platonism (Protism) and the theory of Forms (Cnoons) Platonism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism/ Arbre to Earth Translations: https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Arbre_Correlations Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/  Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/  Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances:  Aaron had a wonderful time with This Film is Lit talking about the epic A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. Stick around for me trying to keep it together through reading the afterword.  https://thisfilmislit.podiant.co/e/a-scanner-darkly-feat-aaron-rabinowitz-388b34bda8a870/ CONTENT PREVIEW: Anathem and Nominalism/The Linguistic Term pt.2

So, apparently no matter what timeline we're in, I'm always going to end up in a debate about free will. At least this is a good one! Thomas brought some great short stories to the party and we continue to hash out what of Dennett's compatibilism is valuable and where does it fall short. After you listen make sure to submit questions for our last episode on Dennett before we move on to ANATHEM! Also, new intro quotes! Questions for next episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/questions-on-and-38720799 Dennett on Free Will as Moral Competence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbnGqOrAEM Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/0G  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy Join our Facebook discussion group (make sure to answer the questions to join): https://www.facebook.com/groups/985828008244018/  Email us at: philosophersinspace@gmail.com If you have time, please write us a review on iTunes. It really really helps. Please and thank you! Sibling shows: Serious Inquiries Only: https://seriouspod.com/ Opening Arguments: https://openargs.com/  Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ Recent appearances:  Aaron had a wonderful time with This Film is Lit talking about the epic A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. Stick around for me trying to keep it together through reading the afterword.  https://thisfilmislit.podiant.co/e/a-scanner-darkly-feat-aaron-rabinowitz-388b34bda8a870/ CONTENT PREVIEW: Psychopass and Dennett Q and A

This week, Jaz and Lulav are joined by Xava De Cordova, host of the queer Talmud podcast Xai, how are you? We talk about why a staff helps bring religious traditions together, how cool it is to have 250 union organizers as biblical characters, and the beauty of a time-travelling anarchist visionary. Xava also reveals her secret title as head of the Anti-Moses Sentiment Committee. (Lulav says she's not a member of that particular committee, and instead belongs to the rival Moshe-was-Progressive-to-Some-Extent-But-as-Soon-as-He-Got-a-Taste-of-Power-Became-a-Bootlicking-Liberal Brigade.) Full transcript here. You can support Xava on Patreon, follow her on Twitter at @xaihowareyou, and listen to her podcast in a variety of places, including on Soundcloud. All of us reference sci-fi books this episode! Jaz references the book The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, and Xava speaks to the novel The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Lulav references Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Also, Xava and Lulav discuss Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Of the four of those, I think we can most wholeheartedly recommend The Dispossessed. Content note: this episode includes non-graphic discussion of death. Support us on Patreon! Send us questions or comments at kosherqueers@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @kosherqueers, and like us on Facebook at Kosher Queers. Our music is by the band Brivele. This week, our audio was edited by Ezra Faust, and our transcript was written by Reuben Shachar Rose and Jaz Twersky. Our logo is by Lior Gross, and we are not endorsed by or affiliated with the Orthodox Union.Support the show (http://patreon.com/kosherqueers)

Crystal McKellar is the Founder and Managing Partner of Anathem Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that have developed breakthrough technology that they are pragmatically leveraging to win and own uncrowded, high-margin markets. Crystal currently serves on the board of Cooler Heads, and previously served as a board member at Siren, Neurable, and DoubleDutch (acquired by Cvent) and as a board observer at Fractyl.   Crystal is a Kauffman Fellows Mentor, and has served as a mentor to the TechStars MetLife Digital Accelerator and the Ad Astra tech incubator program. Crystal is a proud member of All Raise and is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation at technology conferences and finance events. In this episode, you'll learn: When raising a fund, what recommendations are there for first-time fundraisers? What are the relationship dynamics between a Venture Capitalist and the Limited Partners (LPs)? The life of a VC, how is it really? What are some of the positives and negatives of the role? What are the advantages of keeping the fund size small?   We would like to thank Maya Tussing for making the introduction which allowed for today's episode. Thank you for the support! HELP US OUT!   Please take a few seconds and leave us a positive review as it helps the show grow and motivates us to create content. Thank you for helping and giving back to the show!   CONNECT WITH CRYSTAL LinkedIn| Website | Email  CONNECT WITH SHAWN: https://linktr.ee/ShawnflynnSV   Shawn Flynn's Twitter Account Shawn Flynn's LinkedIn Account Silicon Valley LinkedIn Group Account Shawn Flynn's Facebook Account Change to Shawn@thesiliconvalleypodcast.com      

Crystal McKellar is the Founder and Managing Partner of Anathem Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that have developed breakthrough technology that they are pragmatically leveraging to win and own uncrowded, high-margin markets. Crystal currently serves on the board of Cooler Heads, and previously served as a board member at Siren, Neurable, and DoubleDutch (acquired by Cvent) and as a board observer at Fractyl. Crystal is a Kauffman Fellows Mentor, and has served as a mentor to the TechStars MetLife Digital Accelerator and the Ad Astra tech incubator program. Crystal is a proud member of All Raise and is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation at technology conferences and finance events.In this episode, you’ll learn:When raising a fund, what recommendations are there for first-time fundraisers?What are the relationship dynamics between a Venture Capitalist and the Limited Partners (LPs)?The life of a VC, how is it really? What are some of the positives and negatives of the role?What are the advantages of keeping the fund size small?We would like to thank Maya Tussing for making the introduction which allowed for today’s episode. Thank you for the support!HELP US OUT!Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!Tweet your comments about this episode directly to Shawn Flynn and the rest of The Investor’s Podcast Community using #TIPSiliconValley.BOOKS AND RESOURCESDownload your free audiobook at Audible.Capital One. This is Banking Reimagined.Experience a real estate investing platform that is powered by an investor-first model with Fundrise.Make your money work harder with Wealthsimple.Affordable, private online counseling. Anytime, anywhere with Betterhelp. CONNECT WITH CRYSTALLinkedIn| Website | Email GET IN TOUCH WITH SHAWNShawn Flynn’s Twitter AccountShawn Flynn’s LinkedIn AccountSilicon Valley LinkedIn Group AccountShawn Flynn’s Facebook AccountEmail: Shawn@TheInvestorsPodcast.com

This week we’re looking at three scifi films that came out in 2018 with coincidentally strong parental themes. We start with Rpatz at the tender mercies of psycho-space nurse Juliette Binoche in High Life (2018). Next up is father-daughter extraterrestrial camping trip Prospect (2018), with a Shakespearian Pedro Pascal. We finish with the Swedish generation ship cruise liner Aniara (2018) adrift in space, based on the poem from 1956.Also: Twiglet (2008). Silent Running (1972). Sunshine (2007). Bathos. Prospect, the original short. Anathem (2010). The Defiant Ones (1958). Dudievins by Ilona Balina. Passengers (2016). Saudade. Mentats and the Butlerian Jihad. Avenue 5 (2020). Hilarity ensues? Annihilation (2018). Dirac equation. We play a game of “The Ends of Existentialism” with outrageous French accents.

Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Today we're going to look at the impact Stewart Brand had on computing. Brand was one of the greatest muses of the interactive computing and then the internet revolutions. This isn't to take anything away from his capacity to create, but the inspiration he provided gave him far more reach than nearly anyone in computing. There's a decent chance you might not know who he his. There's even a chance that you've never heard of any of his creations. But you live and breath some of his ideas on a daily basis. So who was this guy and what did he do? Well, Stewart Brand was born in 1938, in Rockford, Illinois. He would go on to study biology at Stanford, enter the military and then study design and photography at other schools in the San Francisco area. This was a special time in San Francisco. Revolution was in the air. And one of the earliest scientific studies had him legitimately dosing on LSD. One of my all-time favorite books was The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe. In the book, Wolfe follows Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters along a journey of LSD and Benzedrine riddled hippy goodness, riding a converted school bus across the country and delivering a new kind of culture straight out of Haight-Ashbury and to the heart of middle America. All while steering clear of the shoes FBI agents of the day wore. Here he would have met members of the Grateful Dead, Neal Cassady, members of the Hells Angels, Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, and maybe even Kerouac and Ginsberg. This was a transition from the Beat Generation to the Hippies of the 60s. Then he started the Whole Earth Catalog. Here, he showed the first satallite imagery of the planet Earth, which he'd begun campaigning NASA to release two years earlier. In the 5 years he made the magazine, he spread ideals like ecology, a do it yourself mentality, self-sufficiency, and what the next wave of progress would look like. People like Craig Newmark of Craig's List would see the magazine and it would help to form a new world view. In fact, the Whole Earth Catalog was a direct influence on Craig's List. Steve Jobs compared the Whole Earth Catalog to a 60s era Google. It inspired Wired Magazine. Earth Day would be created two years later. Brand would loan equipment and inspire spinoffs of dozens of magazines and books. And even an inspiration for many early websites. The catalog put him in touch with so, so many influential people. One of the first was Doug Engelbart and The Mother Of All Demos involves him in the invention of the mouse and the first video conferencing. In fact, Brand helped produce the Mother Of All Demos! As we moved into the 70s he chronicled the oncoming hacker culture, and the connection to the 60s-era counterculture. He inspired and worked with Larry Brilliant, Lee Felsenstein, and Ted Nelson. He basically invented being a “futurist” founding CoEvolution Quarterly and spreading the word of digital utopianism. The Whole Earth Software Review would come along with the advent of personal computers. The end of the 70s would also see him become a special advisor to former California governor Jerry Brown. In the 70s and 80s, he saw the Internet form and went on to found one of the earliest Internet communities, called The WELL, or Whole Earth Lectronic Link. Collaborations in the WELL gave us Barlow's The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a safe haunt for Kevin Mitnick while on the run, Grateful Dead tape trading, and many other Digerati. There would be other virtual communities and innovations to the concept like social networks, eventually giving us online forums, 4chan, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn, and corporate virtual communities. But it started with The Well. He would go on to become a visiting scientist in the MIT Media Lab, organize conferences, found the Global Business Network with Peter Schwarts, Jay Ogilvy and other great thinkers to help with promoting values and various planning like scenario planning, a corporate strategy that involves thinking from the outside in. This is now a practice inside Deloitte. The decades proceeded on and Brand inspired whole new generations to leverage humor to push the buttons of authority. Much as the pranksters inspired him on the bus. But it wasn't just anti-authority. It was a new and innovative approach in an upcoming era of maximizing short-term profits at the expense of the future. Brand founded The Long Now Foundation with an outlook that looked 10,000 years in the future. They started a clock on Jeff Bezos' land in Texas, they started archiving languages approaching extinction, Brian Eno led seminars about long-term thinking, and inspired Anathem, a novel from one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson. Peter Norton, Pierre Omidyar, Bruce Sterling, Chris Anderson of the Economist and many others are also involved. But Brand inspired other counter-cultures as well. In the era of e-zines, he inspired Jesse Dresden, who Brand knew as Jefferson Airplane Spencer Drydens kid. The kid turned out to be dFx, who would found HoHo Con an inspiration for DefCon. Stewart Brand wrote 5 books in addition to the countless hours he spent editing books, magazines, web sites, and papers. Today, you'll find him pimping blockchain and cryptocurrency, in an attempt to continue decentralization and innovation. He inherited a playful counter-culture. He watched the rise and fall and has since both watched and inspired the innovative iterations of countless technologies, extending of course into bio-hacking. He's hobnobbed with the hippies, the minicomputer timeshares, the PC hackers, the founders of the internet, the tycoons of the web, and then helped set strategy for industry, NGOs, and governments. He left something with each. Urania was the muse of astronomy, some of the top science in ancient Greece. And he would probably giggle if anyone compared him to the muse. Both on the bus in the 60s, and in his 80s today. He's one of the greats and we're lucky he graced us with his presence on this rock - that he helped us see from above for the first time. Just as I'm lucky you elected to listen to this episode. So next time you're arguing about silly little things at work, think about what really matters and listen to one of his Ted Talks. Context. 10,000 years. Have a great week and thanks for listening to this episode of the History of Computing Podcast.

Neal Stephenson author of Fall, or Dodge in Hell in conversation with Long Now Board Member, Kevin Kelly. Tickets include a signed copy of Fall, or Dodge in Hell. The Interval at Long Now: check-in starts at 12 noon. The talk will begin @ 12:30pm. Neal Stephenson will inscribe books after the event from 1:30 to 2pm. Additional books will be on sale before and after the talk thanks to Borderlands Books. Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line." He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Bestselling author Neal Stephenson is known for delivering novels with poignant and incisive reflections on our present and future. Now the acclaimed novelist joins us for a Town Hall conversation about his latest book Fall; or, Dodge in Hell. The story follows billionaire magnate Richard “Dodge” Forthrast who is left suddenly braindead after a mishap during a routine medical procedure. Per his will, Dodge’s brain is scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud until it can eventually be revived. When Dodge’s digital brain is reactivated, the accomplishment shatters the human understanding of death and leads to the creation of an eternal digital afterlife. But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem. Stephenson took the stage to discuss this grand drama of analog and digital, raising profound existential questions and touching on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Join Stephenson for a deep dive into his latest mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. Neal Stephenson is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. Recorded live at The Great Hall by Town Hall Seattle on June 3, 2019. 

Greetings, Shenanites! This week, we talk phoenix tattoos, stick legs, and weaponized reporting. Is party time? Or is it time for swarming bottlenecks? Here’s a non sequitur pro-tip: if you read Anathem, you’ll have something to chat with Adam about. Questions answered (abbreviated): - Offampie Lomhoo: So this devops handbook says that there is never more than a single bottleneck in a value stream. But the guy with the shovel behind and the starving guy ahead are maybe not equipped to help. Which of the two do you think should help out? - Beekie Boppaboop: I'm wondering why you decided to ditch the random names and went back to people being able to name themselves, as well as if the new podcast page could allow you to see the questions answered in the newest podcast. - Retro Banana Man NL: Where does the name “bug” come from? To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk). If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to podcast@bscotch.net, and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to http://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to http://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

Science fiction has long inspired new technologies, from robots to flip phones to artificial intelligence and more. Yet it's provocative to consider that sci-fi is more often descriptive than predictive. Dystopias can reflect contemporary fears and biases. Utopias may contain robot characters more developed than women characters. Still, the clear path from imagined worlds to today's tech products is worth celebrating. Speaking of which, this episode marks the end of Season 1. Thanks for listening. Show Notes Welcome (0:12) Conversation with Brittney Gallagher, host and executive producer of Digital Culture LA (2:02) Brittney's show on KPFK (2:02) “Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.” - Ursula Le Guin (4:54) Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (7:30) Social science fiction explained (9:29) Foundation by Isaac Asimov (9:41) 1984 by George Orwell (9:48) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (9:49) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (11:07) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (11:08) The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft (11:52) The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft (13:45) Anathem by Neal Stephenson (16:56) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (19:33) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (20:21) Evernote's Three Laws of Data Protection (21:35) Dune by Frank Herbert (25:36) Ready Player One (30:35) The Matrix (30:35) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (32:31) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (34:43) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which referenced transparent aluminum and voice commands for computers (35:05) Listener questions (41:29) You missed the obvious question, given your clear commitment to it: What impact is 42 having on diversity in the pipeline for developers? (42:05) Can you share your thinking on blockchain for business? Various comments on the show give a negative impression of the technology. While it was created to support cryptocurrency, there are possible uses for various business scenarios. For example, procurement agreements that require definitive validation and perhaps an alternative to PGP servers for email encryption that would require storing a public key on a blockchain. (44:43) David Mazières' white paper on the Stellar Consensus Protocol (48:02) Jessica's graphic novel Adventures in Galactic Consensus (48:15) End of Season One: Thank you (50:35) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

While recognizing that quantum mechanics “demands serious attention,” Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished that the theory “does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One.” Aware that “there are deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself,” 94-year-old theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has chronicled the stories of those who were engaged in solving some of the most challenging quandaries of twentieth-century physics. To offer us a rare glimpse into scientific history, Dyson came to our stage to share his life story through a series of autobiographical letters and recount many major advances in science that made the field what it is today. Dyson met for a conversation with renowned speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson—and the pair were joined by moderator Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Dyson and Stephenson delved into Dyson’s letters to relatives, which rendered a historic account of modern science and its greatest players, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Dyson reflected on the horrors of World War II, the moral dilemmas of nuclear development, the challenges of the space program, and the considerable demands of raising six children. Join Dyson and Stephenson for a firsthand account of one of the greatest periods of scientific discovery of our modern age. Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Freeman Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician. His work unified the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga, and he went on to work on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology. He is the author of numerous books including Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, and Origins of Life. Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of numerous works of speculative fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction. His work includes books such as Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, The Diamond Age, and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.. He has received multiple accolades for his books, including the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novel (The Diamond Age), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Quicksilver), and the 2009 Prometheus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (The System of the World). Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study and Leon Levy Professor since July 2012, is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. His research focuses on the interface between mathematics and particle physics. In addition to finding surprising and deep connections between matrix models, topological string theory, and supersymmetric quantum field theory, Dijkgraaf has developed precise formulas for the counting of bound states that explain the entropy of certain black holes. For his contributions to science, Dijkgraaf was awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands, in 2003. Recorded live at Meydenbauer Center Theatre on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. 

We all know that "correlation does not equal causation" but it is still counterintuitive. There are many questions in healthcare that just cannot be approached by the randomized controlled trial (RCT) requiring us to depend on observational data which is extremely susceptible to this confounding correlation problem. Are there any visual tools that we can use to help keep our thinking honest and not fall for spurious correlations? YES! Join us on an exploration of directed acyclic graphs!!! THIS ARTICLE IS CURRENTLY OPEN ACCESS SO FOLLOW THE LINK TO READ IT! Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data. Rohrer JM. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. First Published January 29, 2018. Here is the Amazon link to the book Erik was talking about, Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Due to copyright laws, unless the article is open source we cannot legally post the PDF on the website for the world to download at will. That said, if you are having difficulty obtaining an article, contact us. Music for PT Inquest: "The Science of Selling Yourself Short" by Less Than Jake Used by Permission

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about fandoms, Harry Potter spoilers, relative ages, Hogwarts Houses, ghost books, goofy names, a spiky killer tree, very long board games, games that aren't games, cool science, flat earths, long periods of time, groundhogs day-ing. (Recorded on August 28, 2017.) Links Jesse finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and he's going to start The Tale of Beren and Lúthien soon. J. K. Rowling is writing a crime mystery series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Kevin spent his Labor Day weekend playing Twilight Imperium. Kevin made a pinhole projector for the solar eclipse. Jesse recommends Annie Dillard's essay about the 1979 total solar eclipse. Kevin has done an experiment that proves the earth is not flat. Kevin recommends Anathem and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.

Thema der Woche: Positive Zukunftsvissionen Teil 3 Im letzen Teil der „Positiven Zukunftsvisonen Reihe“ befassen wir und mit positiven Gesellschaftsentwürfen. In „Anathem“ von Neal Stephenson ist die Lösung für die Probleme der Welt das alle intelligenten Leute von der restlichen („säkularen“) Welt seperiert werden und in abgeschlossenen Klostern ihr eigenes Ding machen. Einen Gegenentwurf zu […]

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Noveno y último programa de la primera temporada de "Leyendo Ciencia Ficción" con los habituales @David_Baltha, @slaimer, @hynnot y todos vosotros! Libros comentados en el programa: - SevenEves de Neal Stephenson. - Anathem de Neal Stephenson. - La trilogía de Marte de Kim Stanley Robinson. - Station Eleven de Emily St. John Mandel. - Patria de Robert Harris. - Dune de Frank Herbert. - La fundación de Isaac Asimov. - El Mundo Anillo de Larry Niven. - La penúltima verdad de Philip K Dick. - Mecanoscrito del segundo origen - Manuel de Pedrolo. - Ciberiada - Stanislaw Lem. - La paja en el ojo de dios - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle - La vieja guardia - John Scalzi - Trilogía “2001: Una odisea espacial” (Arthur C. Clark) - Cita con Rama (Arthur C. Clark) - Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) - La guerra de la salamandras de Karel ?apek - Los cantos de Hyperion de Dan Simmons - Ready Player One de Ernest Cline La canción con licencia Creative Commons que nos acompaña en este programa es "Paint the Sky" del artista "Hans Atom".

Dr. Rick Kopak stuck around for a second episode to discuss the power of highlighting in digital text, urban fantasy, cyberpunk and the staying power of iconic books. Rick is an educator & researcher at the iSchool at the University of British of Columbia. e-readers like the Kindle offer some good tools to highlight and make notes about the information we’re consuming. However, copyright and other legal issues may be limiting usability. Copyright is a funny thing. Rick tells us about the Open Journal Project. Paul reminds us that Amazon and Netflix used to be the alternate business models and now they are the established norm. There are loads of reading recommendations in this show: Cory Doctorow often offers his books for free at Craphound. William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Anathem, Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle). Charles Stross (The Atrocity Archives, Saturn’s Children). Asimov Heinlein Larry Corriea, Monster Hunters International. William Dufris is a voice actor who has narrated several audio books from the authors above. Scribd now offers a subscription service to audio books & ebooks. It’s like the Netflix for books. $8.99 for as many books as you can read in a month. The 007 Reloaded audio books are a series of James Bond audio books read by famous British actors like Hugh Bonneville & David Tennant. Hachette vs. Amazon. Rick recommends Roam Mobility an inexpensive way to use your mobile phone when traveling. Thanks again to Rick for making the time to join us! If your interested in learning more about information design, check out the iSchool at UBC. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Kristoffer och Tobias rekommenderar science fiction-böcker och pratar lite politik. Länkar Ancillary justice Alastair Reynolds Borg Peter F. Hamilton Hård science fiction Commonwealth saga Voidtrilogin Looper Hamiltons första trilogi The Abyss beyond dreams Neal Stephenson Seveneves Snow crash Neuromancer Cryptonomicon Reamde Tom Clancy The Baroque cycle Anathem Spelet Neal Stephenson ville göra William Gibson The Peripheral Zero history Pattern recognition Cyberpunk Johnny Mnemonic Count Zero Cyberspace Accelerando Charles Stross Singularity sky Jimmie Åkesson sjukskriven Björn Söder Åsa Romson och det uteblivna drevet Titlar Boksnack Köns-assignment i språket Prata om hur man äter sina flingor Cyberpunk och super-episk science fiction De är lite ledsna för att de förlorade

Who on Earth has an encyclopedic understanding of 1990s crypto-wars, knows what it is to look into the terrifying face of the Republican primary electorate, and can tell you which open source database platform was enabled by the porn industry? (That last one is a lie.)Only Ken Kennedy. This week's guest is a self-described tech activist and recovering libertarian with a deep knowledge of tech and the policies that help and hinder it, and who pretends to sound enlightened when I rant about how terrible the cover art of most sci-fi and fantasy novels is.Ken and I have been Internet friends for many years, and this is the first time he and I have ever actually spoken to each other using our human voices. It seemed to work out, evidenced by the fact that even after extensive editing, I still couldn't get the show below 80 minutes. There's just that much to say!Duration: 81 minutesSubscribe to the Obcast in iTunes or through this link.Links from the show:   Ken's website and podcast Kenzoid's Autonomous Zone.Ken at Google+ and as @kenzoid on Twitter.On the Media: "Pulling Back the Curtain" - Piece on the editing and clean-up done at NPR. The World's Smallest Political Quiz (I turn out to be a liberal, if you can believe it) The Name of the Wind cover art Anathem cover art  

In this Iteration we talk about recent events, read listener feedback and go off on many a tangent.Image Source: Northern Arizona UniversityYou can find Jim's other podcast, Transmissions From the Ninth World, HERE.You can find Kent's video podcast at the Distorted Order site, HERE.RECOMMENDATIONS: Jon recommends the comic Fables and the book Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Jim recommends the book The Reckoning: the Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl and the game Dungeon World.Also Mentioned in this Iteration:Steel-Toed ShoesMythbustersENNie AwardsMonte Cook / NumeneraGenConDragon*ConPacific RimRon Perlman / Sons of AnarchyGuillermo del Toro / HellboyCharlie HunnamThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / LegolasMatthew Wayne SelznickWotC / PaizoGern Blanston / Steve MartinBill Willingham / Scourge of the Slave Lords / Vault of the DrowVertigoMentatChristopher MarloweKen & Robin Talk About Stuff / Kenneth Hite / Robin D. LawsCastle Amber (X2)FATE Core / FATE Accelerated / FATE Core KickstarterNaked Singularity / Andromeda Epoch Iteration 11 - Find a Naked Singularity Download

Tim Wu talks with Neal Stephenson, a science fiction writer and author of such books as Anathem and Snow Crash. Stranger Than Fiction is a co-production of Slate and the New America Foundation.

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Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing (William Morrow & Company) Neal Stephenson, the beloved and bestselling author of modern speculative fiction classics including Reamde, Anathem, and Snow Crash, will discuss and sign his brand-new collection of essays, Some Remarks. "Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits." —Salon Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde; Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac.  He lives in Seattle, Washington. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS AUGUST 8, 2012.

Neal Stephenson appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" ("Quicksilver," "The Confusion" and "The System of the World") and the novels "Cryptonomicon," "The Diamond Age," "Snow Crash," "Zodiac" and "Anathem." Last year, Stephenson introduced "The "Mongoliad," a fiction project distributed primarily as a series of apps for smartphone. Stephenson's new novel, "Reamde" (William Morrow) is the story of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5300.

In a world, divided by history, separate but equal, teetering on the brink of the cosmos, one podcast dares to defy the axioms and go where no podcast has gone bef... well you get the idea. This week we're talking Anathem! Neal Stephenson's latest work of spec-fic awesomery is ripe with headiness, so we decided to bring on couple of powerhouses in the brain department. Former-KTXT and current Llano Idea DJ Benjamin Brown returns to duke it out in a literary smackdown for the ages with veteran Bad Philosopher and aspiring YouTube reviewer Kevin Saunders. If this were a book, it'd be a genuine page-turner. But you read with your ears, right? Of course you do. So have a listen... The post Episode 040: Meta-Mathic Smackdown first appeared on Bad Philosophy.

In a world, divided by history, separate but equal, teetering on the brink of the cosmos, one podcast dares to defy the axioms and go where no podcast has gone bef... well you get the idea. This week we're talking Anathem! Neal Stephenson's latest work of spec-fic awesomery is ripe with headiness, so we decided to bring on couple of powerhouses in the brain department. Former-KTXT and current Llano Idea DJ Benjamin Brown returns to duke it out in a literary smackdown for the ages with veteran Bad Philosopher and aspiring YouTube reviewer Kevin Saunders. If this were a book, it'd be a genuine page-turner. But you read with your ears, right? Of course you do. So have a listen...

We talk about Wrath of the Lich King, Neal Stephenson's 'Anathem', A Kingdom for Keflings and Left 4 Dead multiplayer.With Danjo, Someguy, SoulMusic is 'Only Good for War' by the Suit Corporation 24 min. chat / 4.30 min. music  16.3 MB Email us

Andrew Harrison talks to author Neal Stephenson about his acclaimed "Baroque Cycle" and his new book "Anathem".

At an event hosted by the Long Now Foundation, science fiction author Neal Stephenson reads from his latest novel Anathem.