Uitgelezen: The Power door Naomi Alderman
(@ellecordova’s SciFi book club)
#book #scifi #sciencefiction #NaomiAlderman
Uitgelezen: The Power door Naomi Alderman
(@ellecordova’s SciFi book club)
#book #scifi #sciencefiction #NaomiAlderman
This is the best news I've had in a very very long time.
My favourite app is going to live on. The miracle I was hoping for is happening.
That app carried me through some of the worst years of my life. I can't even begin to describe how happy I am to hear from Abel Township again.
#zombiesrun #naomialderman
Start The Week - BBCRadio4
Digital Futures and Information Crises
Start the Week
How can we reclaim the internet? Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the digital age - its supporters and discontents.
Tech critic Cory Doctorow introduces his new book Enshittification, a blistering diagnosis of how online platforms have decayed — from innovation to exploitation — and what we can do to make it better for ordinary users.
Novelist and broadcaster Naomi Alderman draws on history in Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today, arguing that we’ve lived through information crises before, and that lessons from the invention of writing and the printing press can help us navigate today’s digital turbulence.
Journalist Oliver Moody, the author of Baltic: The Future of Europe, discusses Estonia’s radical embrace of digital governance, and what it reveals about the possibilities — and limits — of a truly connected state.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Assistant Producer: Natalia Fernandez
#BBCStartTheWeek #BBCRadio4
#CoryDoctorow #NaomiAlderman #OliverMoody
(downloadable episodes)
Recommendation for Stacy!
Naomi Alderman (*yuck*) series on great thinkers, "Human Intelligence" episode on Michael Faraday (religious nut ... I mean ... highly religious person and brilliant scientist).
"The modern world is inconceivable without this son of a blacksmith and his meticulous, relentless brain. Naomi Alderman meets the mind behind huge scientific advances – who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, changed the technology by which we live and contributed to our theoretical understanding of the forces underpinning the universe. Faraday also devoted his life to spreading the understanding of science into public life via his lectures at the Royal Institution."
(It goes a bit too far with the "without him we wouldn't have ..." line-of-thinking but otherwise quite good. And, he refused a knighthood which I didn't know about before.)
Der #SFAdventskalender2024
Das 21. Türchen offenbart trotz des Titels einen Blick auf unsere heutige Welt.
>> https://www.sf-lit.de/rezensionen/rezensionen-das-archiv/the-future/