Stranger Than Fiction, Neal Stephenson Edition (Podcast)
Stranger Than Fiction, Neal Stephenson Edition
April 29, 2013
by Tim Wu
Slate
Welcome to Stranger Than Fiction, a new six-episode podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Each week, Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.
In the debut episode, Wu talks to Neal Stephenson, the award-winning science fiction author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and more. They discuss the purpose of science fiction, geek culture, and whether—contrary to our constant hand-wringing about “everything changing so fastâ€â€”innovation has really slowed down.
http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/04/neal_stephenson_joins_us_for_the_first_stranger_than_fiction_podcast.htm
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