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Cataclysm or Cure-All?: Fiction Writers Engage with the Promises and Perils of Our Tech Future
Manage episode 343224595 series 1820282
Kate Folk, James Kennedy, Claire Stanford, Vauhini Vara, Lucile Culver
Four fiction writers, each with an exquisite ear for the tender absurdities of humanity, bring their craft to bear on tech. Kate Folk (“Out There”) looks at intimacy through a futurist lens. Vauhini Vara (“The Immortal King Rao”) examines technological capitalism and climate change. Claire Stanford’s “Happy for You” is set in a tech company developing a “happiness app,” and James Kennedy’s “Dare to Know” in one that has developed the technology to predict death.
116 episoder
Manage episode 343224595 series 1820282
Kate Folk, James Kennedy, Claire Stanford, Vauhini Vara, Lucile Culver
Four fiction writers, each with an exquisite ear for the tender absurdities of humanity, bring their craft to bear on tech. Kate Folk (“Out There”) looks at intimacy through a futurist lens. Vauhini Vara (“The Immortal King Rao”) examines technological capitalism and climate change. Claire Stanford’s “Happy for You” is set in a tech company developing a “happiness app,” and James Kennedy’s “Dare to Know” in one that has developed the technology to predict death.
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