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    Explore " neal stephenson" with insightful episodes like "The Middle Age Dating Buffet w/ Paulina Porizkova", "Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - The wildly entertaining book that invented the Metaverse!", "Rony Abovitz on Magic Leap and Taking Bold Risks", "Science Fiction" and "Implausipod E0003 - Cyberpunk Primer" from podcasts like ""Go Ask Ali", "Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time", "Danielle Newnham Podcast", "Springwald Radio" and "Implausipod"" and more!

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    The Middle Age Dating Buffet w/ Paulina Porizkova

    The Middle Age Dating Buffet w/ Paulina Porizkova

    Actress, writer and former supermodel Paulina Porizkova has been trying to date and, well, it’s even hard for her. No matter who you are or where you’ve been, the middle age dating scene is unfortunately no feast of riches. It’s actually, she says, more like a lunch buffet right before it gets closed down and everything is cold and dry. Ouch. But her outlook has gotten better and the main thing that changed it is her relationship with herself. She says writing her memoir No Filter (which touches on aging, beauty, heartbreak and grief) helped her reconnect to the most important relationship of all.

    And Ali answers a listener’s question.

    If you have questions or guest suggestions, Ali would love to hear from you. Call or text her at (323) 364-6356. Or email go-ask-ali-podcast-at-gmail.com. (No dashes)

    **Go Ask Ali has been nominated for a Webby Award for Best Interview/Talk Show Episode! Please vote for her and the whole team at https://bit.ly/415e8uN by April 20, 2023!

    Links of Interest:

    Paulina’s Newest Book: No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

    Credits:

    Executive Producers: Sandie Bailey, Alex Alcheh, Lauren Hohman, Tyler Klang & Gabrielle Collins

    Producer & Editor: Brooke Peterson-Bell

    Associate Producer: Akiya McKnight

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    Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - The wildly entertaining book that invented the Metaverse!

    Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - The wildly entertaining book that invented the Metaverse!

    Hiro Protagonist is a self-described hacker working as a pizza-delivery driver and living in a storage unit at LAX. He lives in a US that has been fully corporatized - from Judge Bob’s Judicial System to Pastor Wayne’s Pearly Gates. 

    To get away, Hiro spends much of his free-time in the Metaverse, where he wrote many of the subroutines that underpin the virtual world. One of his hacker friends, Da5id, is given a new virtual drug called Snow Crash that not only crashes his computer, but also destroys his brain in the real world. Hiro (and a hilarious cadre of friends) are drawn ever deeper into the worldwide conspiracy that is spilling out of the virtual world to threaten the real world.

    Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer video.

    Keep reading y'all!

    Rony Abovitz on Magic Leap and Taking Bold Risks

    Rony Abovitz on Magic Leap and Taking Bold Risks

    Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz is a serial tech entrepreneur and visionary. He co-founded Mako Surgical in 2004 — a robotics company specialising in manufacturing surgical robotic arm assistance technology utilised by hospitals worldwide. MAKO was acquired by Stryker Corporation in 2013 for $1.65 billion.

    Rony went on to found Magic Leap — a spatial computing company which envisaged a futuristic world, many years ahead of its time. Starting out of his garage in 2010, Rony worked on Magic Leap at night whilst still working at Mako during the day. He partnered with award-winning Weta Workshop in New Zealand and assembled a world-class team of creative scientists before building their own high-tech factory in the US. He remained Magic Leap’s CEO until 2020 when he helped recruit Peggy Johnson to be his successor. Rony remains on the Board of Directors at Magic Leap and is also founder and CEO of Sun and Thunder – which incubates creative tech experiments. He is also strategic advisor to Lamina1, the Layer-1 blockchain for the Open Metaverse co-founded by none other than Neal Stephenson - who famously coined the term “metaverse” in his book, Snow Crash.

    Rony is also working on another startup which we weren’t able to talk about but I am looking forward to having him back on the podcast next year to discuss it.

    This interview was recorded during the pandemic and the sound quality isn’t great so please forgive me for that but it’s still a fascinating interview with a pioneer of our times.

     

    Enjoy!

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    Rony on Twitter / Magic Leap / Sun and Thunder /  Medium

    Danielle on Twitter @daniellenewnham and  Instagram @daniellenewnham   / Newsletter 

    Implausipod E0003 - Cyberpunk Primer

    Implausipod E0003 - Cyberpunk Primer

    Welcome to Episode 3 of the Implausipod.  In this episode, we're taking a quick look at the subgenre of science fiction called cyberpunk.  It's been mentioned a few times in the first few episodes, so I thought it warranted a closer look.  So we'll draw a through line between Bladerunner and the Matrix, and from Neuromancer to the Diamond Age, and touching on the intervening points.  As cyberpunk is a transmedia genre (existing in various versions in film, television, fiction, rpgs, video games, comic books, etc.), we'll cover some of the main tropes and conventions of the genre, and key titles.  This isn't an exhaustive guide, but I hope it's enough to get your feet wet. 

    This episode will also help align our episode numbering with the remainder of Season 4 of Westworld, which will help us stay on topic.  Well, help me at least.

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    Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West

    Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West

    If you’re honest with yourself, you’re likely asking of the last two years: What happened? The COVID-19 pandemic is a prism through which our stories and predictions have refracted…or perhaps it’s a kaleidoscope, through which we can infer relationships and causes, but the pieces all keep shifting. One way to think about humankind’s response to COVID is as a collision between predictive power and understanding, highlighting how far the evolution of our comprehension has trailed behind the evolution of our tools. Another way of looking at it is in terms of bottlenecks and reservoirs — whether it’s N95 mask distribution, log-jammed shipping lanes, or everybody looking up to Tony Fauci, superspreader events or narrative rupture, COVID is a global crash course in how things flow through networks. Ultimately, the effects go even deeper: How has COVID changed our understanding of individuality — the self and its relationship to other selves?

    Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.

    In this special year-end wrap-up episode, we speak with  SFI President David Krakauer and former SFI President and Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West about The Complex Alternative, a new SFI Press volume gathering the perspectives of over 60 members of the complex systems research community on COVID-19 — not just the disease but the webbed and embedded systems it revealed.

    Complexity Podcast will take a winter hiatus over the holidays and return on Wednesday, January 12th. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/give. Please also be aware that PhD students are now welcome to apply for our tuitionless (!) Summer 2022 SFI GAINS residential program in Vienna, Austria. Learn more at santafe.edu/gains.

    Thank you for listening!

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    Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.

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    Related Reading & Listening:

    The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Selected contributions from that volume:
    David Kinney - Why We Can’t Depoliticize A Pandemic
    Simon DeDeo - From Virus To Symptom
    On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)
    Bill Miller on Investment Strategies in Times of Crisis
    Cristopher Moore on the heavy tail of outbreaks
    Sidney Redner on exponential growth processes
    Anthony Eagan - The COVID-19-Induced Explosion of Boutique Narratives
    Carrie Cowan on the future of education
    Melanie Mitchell - The Double-Edged Sword of Imperfect Metaphors
    Danielle Allen, E. Glen Weyl, and Rajiv Sethi - Prediction and Policy in a Complex System

    Additional Media:
    John Kaag - What Thoreau can teach us about the Great Resignation
    Kyle Harper - The Fall of the Roman Empire (SFI Talk)
    Niall Ferguson’s Networld, Part 1 “Disruption” feat. Geoffrey West
    Neal Stephenson, SFI Miller Scholar
    The Limits of Human Scale - David Pakman interviews Geoffrey West
    Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin - The coming battle for the COVID-19 narrative
    Jonathan Rausch - The Constitution of Knowledge
    Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19
    Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions
    Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)
    Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2)

    New Directions in Science Emerge from Disconnection and Discord
    by Yiling Lin, James Allen Evans, Lingfei Wu

    Scaling of Urban Income Inequality in the United States
    by Elisa Heinrich Mora, Jacob J. Jackson, Cate Heine, Geoffrey B. West, Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Christopher P. Kempes

    #54 Luchando contra la tecnología

    #54 Luchando contra la tecnología

    (NOTAS Y ENLACES RECOMENDADOS, AQUÍ: https://www.jaimerodriguezdesantiago.com/kaizen/54-luchando-contra-la-tecnologia/)

    Nunca he hecho el más mínimo esfuerzo en disimular que siempre he sido un poco friky. De hecho, tengo tendencia a dejarlo bastante claro. Me crié pegado a ordenadores y consolas de todo tipo y durante muchos años tuve una enorme fascinación por cualquier cosa con pantalla y teclado. La verdad es que prefiero no pensar las horas que he pasado en mi vida embobado frente a cacharros. 

    Y no sé si es la edad, pero en los últimos años a mi fascinación le he sumado un cierto recelo. Lo que es una mezcla bastante rara, ya lo sé. Y es que me he vuelto más consciente de hasta qué punto la tecnología es un arma de doble filo en nuestras vidas. A medida que hemos ido desarrollando nuevas formas de comunicarnos y de entretenernos ha ido integrándose más en nuestro día a día o, mejor dicho, en nuestro minuto a minuto. Hasta el punto de que ha pasado de ser un apoyo al que acudíamos para obtener información o trabajar, a algo que reclama nuestra atención de manera constante. 

    Y esto ha sido así a pesar de que las tecnologías que hemos desarrollado hasta ahora son de naturaleza “asistencial”, por así decirlo: es decir, sirve para aumentar nuestras capacidades, pero sólo cuando recurrimos a ellas, sacando nuestro teléfono del bolsillo y abriendo una determinada app para, por ejemplo, encontrar nuestra ruta. 

    Pero poco a poco nos vamos acercando a escenarios en los que nuestra experiencia de la tecnología es cada vez más inmersiva, es decir, que vivimos en ella. Así dicho, sé que puede sonar a una ida de olla de las mías, y seguramente lo sea, pero si lo piensas por un momento estamos viviendo una explosión de dispositivos cuya función es estar siempre con nosotros y acompañarnos a todos lados de manera casi transparente: los asistentes de voz, los relojes inteligentes, los cascos inalámbricos o lo que hasta ahora han sido intentos fallidos de tener gafas inteligentes. Y un paso más allá asoma la realidad virtual, que podría distanciarnos de la realidad auténtica más de lo que lo hemos estado nunca. 

    Para mí es indudable que el desarrollo tecnológico que hemos vivido en las últimas décadas alrededor de la informática y las telecomunicaciones tiene más cosas positivas que negativas y nos está permitiendo conseguir logros increíbles como especie. Pero cada vez pienso más que, igual que el automóvil o el avión fueron tecnologías que trajeron muchas cosas positivas y ahora entendemos que su impacto en nuestras sociedades no es sostenible y necesitamos replantearnos su uso; cada vez tengo más la sensación de que nos está empezando a pasar lo mismo con este tipo de tecnologías. 

    Y hay varios focos, más o menos problemáticos, que podríamos discutir y todos ellos bastante actuales. Seguro que has hablado con alguien sobre la privacidad y el uso de nuestros datos, las cámaras de eco que son las redes sociales o la precarización de algunos sectores con la entrada de determinados modelos de negocio. Pero siendo todos estos temas importantísimos, creo que en cierta medida se escapan de nuestro círculo de influencia individual. Sí, podemos actuar sobre ellos de manera más o menos indirecta a través de nuestros votos o nuestras decisiones como consumidores, pero de manera individual ninguno de nosotros vamos a resolverlos. 

    Sin embargo, hay otro aspecto que es seguramente menos importante para nuestras sociedades, pero que puede tener un impacto enorme en nuestra calidad de vida y sobre el que tenemos toda la capacidad para actuar: nuestra propia relación con la tecnología. 

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    Jennifer Rohn & Neal Stephenson at Edinburgh International Book Festival

    Jennifer Rohn & Neal Stephenson at Edinburgh International Book Festival
    Science fiction writing is readily dismissed as mindless escapism but in fact it is a hugely influential and creative genre, able to critique our society and inspire our scientists. New York Times bestseller Neal Stephenson discusses the importance of science fiction on science fact with Jennifer Rohn, of University College London and author of lablit.com in, an event chaired by Pippa Goldschmidt and recorded live at the 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

    Murmur - Episode #8 - Beatles Rock Band, The New Beatles CDs, Reality TV, and What We're Reading

    Murmur - Episode #8 - Beatles Rock Band, The New Beatles CDs, Reality TV, and What We're Reading
    September 29, 2009 - Murmur staffers Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, Paul Montgomery and Jim Mroczkowski get together to talk about a whole mess of topics from across the Murmur spectrum. Along the way there are fond memories of Kozmo.com, Josh tells sordid tales from the set of Junkyard Wars, and Jim slags off Josh's favorite author! Tech: 00:01:13 - Everybody gets to be a Beatle in Beatles Rock Band, where there is no booing no matter how badly you play. Music: 00:14:06 - The remastered Beatles CDs are super groovy! 00:20:05 - Jim's article, "Talk Amongst Ourselves: Does Music Matter" is discussed. The answer is no. No, wait -- yes. Maybe? Television: 00:30:17 - Josh gives a passionate defense of the genre in his article "Calling Reality TV Stupid is Stupid". Literature: 00:42:59 - Kelly Stephenson's article, "Top of the Stack: Fall 2009" inspires everyone to take a hard look at their stacks. 00:43:42 - What's Paul reading? 00:46:35 - What's Josh reading? 00:48:07 - What's Jim reading? 00:50:09 - What's Conor reading? 00:51:21 - Conor read the entire Harry Potter saga over the summer and everyone chimes in. 00:53:25 - Jim and Josh might have to resort to pistols at dawn over Neal Stephenson. Follow everyone on goodreads! Become friends with Conor, Josh, Paul and Jim!
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