Novelist Eliot Peper talks about fiction as a foreign country

Published July 4, 2016

unspecified This week on the Technotopia podcast I talked to Eliot Peper, the author of the cyberpunk novel Cumulus. Peper talked about the value of science fiction as travel for the mind. He has been an entrepreneur and VC and finds that those industries are often more about checking off boxes in a spreadsheet rather than true exploration. By writing – and reading – speculative fiction… Read More

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Google Acquires Divshot To Join Its Firebase Team, Will Shut Down In December

Published October 13, 2015

divshot Google has acquired Divshot, an HTML5 web-hosting platform that it says is “tailored for performance and developer productivity.”
It will shut down on December 14, 2015, and will be joining the Firebase team. Google acquired Firebase last October. Read More

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A Conversation With DemocracyOS, The YC Non-Profit That Built A Latin American Political Party

Published April 17, 2015

One of the stranger things that Y Combinator has supported — among the many more interesting things they’ve started to back like prosthetic legs, macrobiotic research and Uber-for-marijuana startups — is a non-profit that built an entire political party in Buenos Aires, Argentina. DemocracyOS is a software platform that allows regular voters to debate and forward policy ideas.… Read More

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