Techs on Texts is on Hiatus
I'm too busy to do this thing the way I want to, so I'm taking a few months off before coming back with something better. In the meantime, please check out: The Ends of Information: Searching for Tr...
30 Jun 3min
Episode #28: George Dyson on The Tale of the Big Computer
George Dyson – historian, boat maker, and volunteer Staff Historian at Radiant Earth – returns for his fourth appearance to discuss The Tale of the Big Computer, written by Hannes Alfvén in 1966 under...
31 Mai 1h 9min
Episode #27: Justin Kiggins on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Justin Kiggins, neuroscientist, artisinal oboe reed maker, and builder at the intersection of AI and biology, joins us to discuss Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. We explore ...
30 Apr 1h 12min
Episode #26: JB Flinders on Sneakers
JB Flinders – omnitechnologist, fellow Ute, and co-host of the Andy and Ammon's Excellent Odyssey podcast: joins us to discuss the 1993 film Sneakers. We discuss data as the primary seat of power, the...
1 Apr 1h 24min
Episode #25: Kate Chapman on Wool by Hugh Howey
Kate Chapman, geographer and technologist, joins us to discuss Hugh Howey's Wool. We discuss failures of governance, the perils of IT supremacy, the difficult ethics of constrained environments, and c...
28 Feb 1h 28min
Episode #24: Kevin Bullock on Pluribus by Vince Gilligan
Kevin Bullock joins us to discuss the sublime first season of Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. Yes, TV is a "text," especially when Vince Gilligan is making it. We talk about individual morality, the ethics...
31 Jan 1h 26min
Episode #23: Cyd Harrell on “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges
Cyd Harrell, devout civic technologist, joins us to discuss Jorge Luis Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." We talk about tungsten cubes, techno cults, and our guesses about the "horrifying or banal...
31 Des 20251h 27min
