Category: Hieroglyph
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Featured Conversation: Deep Archives
How can we create a permanent vessel to preserve human knowledge for the distant future? Futurist librarian and Long Now Foundation intern Heath Rezabek started a thread exploring the possibilities for extremely long term preservation and imagining alternatives to storing information in a purely electronic form. Visit the Big Ideas Forum and join the conversation about…
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Featured Contributor: Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture and the future. She’s the editor in chief of io9, a publication that covers science and science fiction, and the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013). Annalee has also written for Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.…
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Featured Contributor: Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear has accomplished quite a lot during her science fiction career. The awards alone are almost endless: a John W. Campbell Award in 2005 for Best New Writer, an Audie Award in 2012 for Best Original Work, a Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award, three Hugo Awards…the list goes on and on. After working across…
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Featured Contributor: Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker is a pretty excellent example of a well-rounded individual. Not only has he become well known for his work in mathematics, computer science and philosophy, but he’s an award-winning science fiction author to boot. As if that wasn’t quite enough for one person to accomplish, he is also one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement.…
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Dispatches from the Age of Networked Matter
Several of our Hieroglyph collaborators – Madeline Ashby, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker and Cory Doctorow – have contributed original stories to the anthology An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter. The collection is published by the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a non-profit think tank in Palo Alto, CA that…
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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…
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Insider Information: Groups
What is the deal with groups? Maybe you are losing sleep wondering about the difference between Hieroglyph groups and forums, and why you would want a group in the first place. Or maybe your next door neighbor is just really into Halo and plays all night with the surround sound blasting. We can’t do anything…
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Cory Doctorow and the Clarion Write-a-Thon
Hieroglyph author Cory Doctorow has recently announced his participation in the 2013 Clarion Write-a-Thon. This annual fundraiser collects donations for the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, a celebrated non-profit institution that has long served as a boot camp for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction. Over the course of forty days, Doctorow will be working on…
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Featured Contributor: Brenda Cooper
Brenda Cooper is a science fiction author, futurist, tech executive and the current Chief Information Officer for the city of Kirkland, Washington. She is the author of the Endeavor award winner for distinguished Science Fiction of 2008: The Silver Ship and the Sea, and its sequels, Reading the Wind and Wings of Creation.…
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Neal Stephenson Interview Podcast on Slate
“We’ve seen obvious lapses in the ability of our technologies to give us things that we want.” – Neal Stephenson Our colleagues at Future Tense have launched a new podcast series on science fiction and their first guest is Neal Stephenson. Check out the interview to hear Tim Wu ask Neal about getting big stuff…