What is the role of the sci-fi author today? Few people, if any, are more qualified to tackle this question than our guest today, media ecologist and author Paul Levinson. Listen to the beginning of what is sure to be an ongoing conversation on falling in love with A.I., modern computer interfaces, the role of

Before computer hacking, the analogue, mechanical telephone system was the play-thing of “phone phreaks” like Steve Wozniak. But few are aware of the unbelievable life of this subversive past-time’s founder—Joybubbles—who started it all in the 50s before he turned eight. Documentary Film Director Rachael Morrison joins the New Explorations Podcast to retrieve one of the

Is there any hope our private selves aren’t too far gone? Does total surveillance and data analytics pull our agency and very being inside-out? Are we becoming, as McLuhan said of Narcissus over fifty years ago, “the servomechanism of own extended or repeated image?” Professor Derrick de Kerckhove, 25-year director of the McLuhan Center