Category: Hieroglyph
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Hieroglyph on Slate’s Future Tense Channel
Slate magazine’s Future Tense channel is running a series of stories inspired by and excerpted from Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, exploring about the connections between science fiction storytelling, scientific discovery, public policy, and real-world innovation. Check back to this post for updates as more pieces are published! Elizabeth Bear, “Story: Covenant” Joey Eschrich, “Forget the Tricorder: Why…
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Forget the Tricorder
Slate
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The Future: Powered by Fiction, a SF anthology from ASU and Intel
It turns out that Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future wasn’t the only science fiction anthology published by ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination this month! On Friday, September 5 we published The Future: Powered by Fiction in partnership with Intel’s Tomorrow Project and the Society for Science & the Public. The anthology, which is free to…
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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…
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Interview: Sam Arbesman, Complex Systems Scientist
Sam Arbesman is a complex systems scientist and writer with a PhD in computational biology from Cornell University and a BA in computer science and biology from Brandeis University. Sam’s most recent book, The Half-Life of Facts (Current/Penguin, 2012), explores how different fields of knowledge—medicine, physics, technology—change over time. Sam argues that knowledge in most…
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Project Hieroglyph Launch Events
We’re coming to your town! We hope you can join us for one of our public events to celebrate the publication of Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future! September 10, 7:30pm Kepler’s Books and Magazines Menlo Park, CA Learn more and register September 13, 3:00pm Bakka Phoenix Books Toronto, Canada Learn more September…
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Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto
It’s hard out here for futurists under 30. As we percolated through our respective nations’ education systems, we were exposed to WorldChanging and TED talks, to artfully-designed green consumerism and sustainable development NGOs. Yet we also grew up with doomsday predictions slated to hit before our expected retirement ages, with the slow but inexorable militarization…
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BBC: Fighting Society’s Dystopian Future
Hieroglyph got some great press from BBC News this week. Check out the full article here and the video below: Ed Finn: “A good science fiction story can be very powerful. It can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to rally around something that they want to do.”
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Reinventing architecture’s relationship with energy
Architect Sean Lally’s work is a synthesis of two intense pressures on society today: humanity’s manipulation of the environment and the bioengineering of the human body. The first is changing the makeup of the physical spaces we occupy and the second, the very bodies that perceive that space. Lally’s designs are experiments that report on…
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Launching a 20 kilometer high blimp
Turns out there is an existing market for a long-term platform 20 kilometers up (like Neal Stephenson’s Tall Tower), according to The New York Times. And it may attract NASA money. The idea is to make commercial a really really high-flying blimp. “Stratospheric airships could give us spacelike conditions from a spacelike platform, but without…