I bask in the afterglow of the KSR episode and indulge in a special treat; a reading from Robinson's 2015 novel Aurora. I follow that up with some thoughts on the utopia - dystopia divide and introduce the ideas of some notable utopians I've run into lately.
Transcript: Web (Read/Listen) | PDF | MS Word
David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands: Long Now Foundation (YouTube)
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Long Now Foundation (YouTube)
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures of Cities: (Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast)
Rebecca Solnit: Why Climate Despair is a Luxury (New Statesman)
Matt Oja: Let's Imagine the Coastside Skyway (Half Moon Bay Review)
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