CNet has started a new book-club podcast, and they honored me by picking my novel Walkaway as their second-ever title. Read the rest
Talking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast
Landscape With Invisible Hand: Late Stage Capitalism, by way of a YA alien invasion novel
In 2002, MT Anderson blew up the YA dystopia world with Feed, his zeitgeisty, prescient novel about "identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains" -- in his latest, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Anderson takes us to a world where neoliberal aliens have sold Earth's plutocrats the technologies to make work obsolete and with it, nearly human being on earth.
Post-scarcity hacker convention: !!Con
Sumana is helping put on a new kind of hacker conference in NYC, !!Con (pronounced "Bang bang con"). Unlike other hacker cons, !!Con has no ranking, no winners, and no dominance displays: "Whenever possible, Hacker School culture assumes abundance rather than scarcity; attempts to rank projects or people would defile our ecology." Read the rest
