Video from the Stross and Doctorow show at MakerBot in Brooklyn

Joly MacFie captured video of Charlie Stross's and my tour-stop at Brooklyn's MakerBot this week. We were there in support of our new novel Rapture of the Nerds, and did a talk, reading and Q&A that touched on the Singularity, its precedents, its discontents, and its inherent comedy -- all while 3D printers chattered in the background. And afterwards everyone got 3D printed miniatures of our heads!

We're making our final stops of tour tomorrow -- Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! -- in Rochester, NY, at RIT. Tell your friends!

Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross - The Rapture of the Nerds (Thanks, Joly!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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OMG, please run the audio through a filter to get rid of that high-pitched whine. Then repost.
- twianto
  
  Well, since my other comment was apparently ruled redundant, let me just confirm that there is indeed a very annoying high-pitched whine that makes it all but impossible to watch this video for some people.
  
  That is all.
  - http://twitter.com/funkyfresh funkyfresh
    
    Hey man, that’s just how Cory’s voice sounds ;-).
    
    But yeah, bad idea to have that 3d printer whining away the whole time ;-(.
politeruin

A fun, frantic talk and visually nice to watch but boy you seemed to be shouting over the noise of those stuff makers at certain points.
Nicky G

3D printers are obviously a disruptive technology — when you’re trying to give a reading in front of a few of them that are in full-swing!
peterblue11

argh. i do hate that “ehhhh u havent reead that book xyz” . that’s indeed the typical rage of the nerds. people read all kinds of books, i think a good recommendation would have sufficed.
- http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC
  
  Which part of the video are you refering to? Charlie talking about Fedorovsky?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Duanburge/100000313244887 Mark Duanburge

Is the miniature head the same as this: http://www.shapeways.com/model/276427/cory-doctorow-s-head.html ?
Dustin Kurtz

I thought I recognized Joly’s rig there.