Hacking State
Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.
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60 - Garrett Dailey: A Neighborhood Where All Your Friends Live (opens the original)
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Garrett Dailey is a designer and brand consultant, and the founder of Lucid, a consultancy that helps startups simplify their pitches and messaging. He is a former philosophy writer and a fixture of the Austin startup ecosystem. We discuss the death of third places, Walt Disney's original plan for EPCOT, why the network state fails, charter cities, Dunbar's number, his three-house co-op on an Austin cul-de-sac, and how to build a neighborhood where all your friends live. pitchlucid.comx.com/garr
59 - Tom Mullaney: How We Disappear — The Art of Being Forgotten (opens the original)
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I sit down with Thomas S. Mullaney — professor of modern Chinese history and the history of technology at Stanford, Guggenheim Fellow, and director of Stanford's Program in Science, Technology & Society — to discuss his new book, How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information (W. W. Norton). It's his eighth book and first with a trade press, following The Chinese Typewriter and The Chinese Computer, and it turns from how information comes into being toward how it degrades, collapses, and di
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