Tag: Karl Schroeder

  • Kathryn Cramer at Google: Why Hieroglyph is a Verb

    I’d like to thank Google for having us here today; and Neal Stephenson, Ed Finn, and Jennifer Brehl, for the chance to collaborate on the anthology Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future. And thank you all for joining us for the first event of our Hieroglyph Roadshow. In July of 2011, Neal asked me…

  • Featured Contributor: Karl Schroeder

    Featured Contributor: Karl Schroeder

    Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian science fiction author and a consultant in the areas of foresight studies and technology. Karl is recognized for inventing the term thalience, a concept that speculates about the possibility of engineered systems that could generate their own categories for understanding the world. These systems could help humans determine what reality…