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Episodes
Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For my latest podcast, I read my January 2018 Locus column, Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention. The essay proposes that we a...
Podcast: In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For my latest podcast, I read my Copyright Week post for EFF’s Deeplinks blog, , In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis. The e...
The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For my latest podcast, I read my Guardian Cities column, “The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states,” wh...
Radicalized is a Canada Reads finalist, will be a graphic novel, and is eligible for the Hugo Award!
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My 2019 book Radicalized has been named one of the five finalists for Canada Reads, the CBC’s annual book prize — Canada’s leading n...
Inaction is a form of action
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my latest Locus column, Inaction is a Form of Action,, where I I discuss how the US government’s unwillingnes...
Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail editorial, Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better thi...
Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 4) (the final part!)
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I conclude my serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Wa...
My annual Daddy-Daughter Xmas Podcast: interview with an 11-year-old
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, I record a short podcast with my daughter, Poesy. Originally, we’d just sing Christmas carols, but with Poesy being nearly 12, we...
Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 3)
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I continue my serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Wa...
Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 2)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I continue my serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Wa...
Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 1)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I’ve started a serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my n...
Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs’s plan to build a surveilling “smart city” in Toronto
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been closely following the plan by Google sister company Sidewalk Labs to build a surveilling “smart city” in Toronto; last we...
Talking Adversarial Interoperability with Y Combinator
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month while I was in San Francisco, I went over to the Y Combinator incubator to record a podcast (MP3); we talked for more than an hour ...
The Engagement-Maximization Presidency
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my May, 2018 Locus column, “The Engagement-Maximization Presidency,” where I propose a theory to explai...
Talking about Disney’s 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2007, I wrote a science fiction novella called “The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrrow,” about an immortal, transhuman survivor of an a...
Jeannette Ng Was Right: John W. Campbell Was a Fascist
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my new Locus column, “Jeannette Ng Was Right: John W. Campbell Was a Fascist,“which revisits Jeannette ...
Talking with The Storyteller’s Thread about YA literature, activism, and technological rebellion
03 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Séan Connors is a young adult literature researcher at the University of Arkansas, whose podcast, The Storyteller’s Thread, features long-form ...
Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my short story “Affordances,” which was commissioned for Slate/ASU’s Future Tense Fiction. itR...
Can we change our politics with science fiction? A conversation with the How Do You Like It So Far podcast
26 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Jenkins (previously) is the preeminent scholar of fandom and culture; Colin Maclay is a communications researcher with a background in tech poli...
Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll Sean Carroll is a physicist at JPL a...
Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my short story “Materiality,” which was commissioned for Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Archite...
False Flag
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Green European Journal short story about the terrible European Copyright Directive which passed last March, Fals...
Part two of my novella “Martian Chronicles” on Escape Pod: who cleans the toilets in libertopia?
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the Escape Pod podcast published part one of a reading of my YA novella “Martian Chronicles,” which I wrote for Jonathan Straha...
Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail column, Why do people believe the Earth is flat?, which connects the rise of conspiratorial think...
“Martian Chronicles”: Escape Pod releases a reading of my YA story about rich sociopaths colonizing Mars
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2011, I wrote a young adult novella called “Martian Chronicles,” which I podcasted as it was in progress; it’s a story about...
Podcast: DRM Broke Its Promise
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my new Locus column, DRM Broke Its Promise, which recalls the days when digital rights management was pitched to us...
Podcast: Barlow’s Legacy
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Even though I’m at Burning Man, I’ve snuck out an extra scheduled podcast episode (MP3): Barlow’s Legacy is my contribution to the D...
Podcast: Barlow’s Legacy
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Even though I’m at Burning Man, I’ve snuck out an extra scheduled podcast episode (MP3): Barlow’s Legacy is my contribution to the D...
My MMT Podcast appearance, part 2: monopoly, money, and the power of narrative
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the Modern Monetary Theory Podcast ran part 1 of my interview with co-host Christian Reilly; they’ve just published the second and fi...
Podcast: A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay “A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition̶...
My appearance on the MMT podcast
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been following the Modern Monetary Theory debate for about 18 months, and I’m largely a convert: governments spend money into existen...
Podcast: Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay “Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle, published today on EFF’s Deeplinks; itR...
Podcast: “IBM PC Compatible”: how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay “IBM PC Compatible”: how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization, published...
Podcast: Adblocking: How About Nah?
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay Adblocking: How About Nah?, published last week on EFF’s Deeplinks; it’s the latest installmen...
Podcast: Adversarial Interoperability is Judo for Network Effects
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial Interoperability is Judo for Network Effects, published last week on EFFR...
Appearance on the Jim Rutt Podcast
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Rutt — former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute and ex-Network Solutions CEO — just launched his new podcast, and included me in the ...
Podcast: Occupy Gotham
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay Occupy Gotham, published in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman, commemorating the 1000th issue of Batman...
Steering with the Windshield Wipers
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my May Locus column: Steering with the Windshield Wipers. It makes the argument that much of the dysfunction of tec...
Fake News is an Oracle
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast, I read my new Locus column: Fake News is an Oracle. For many years, I’ve been arguing that while science fiction can’...
Podcast number 300: “Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today’s Monopolies”
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I just published the 300th installment of my podcast, which has been going since 2006 (!); I present a reading of my EFF Deeplinks essay Adversarial I...
“What does it mean to keep the internet free?” An in-depth discussion with Why? on North Dakota Public Radio
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a long, in-depth discussion on the subject of “What does it mean to keep the internet free” with Jack Ru...
How the diverse internet became a monoculture
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I appeared on this week’s Canadaland podcast (MP3) with Jesse Brown to talk about the promise of the internet 20 years ago, when it seemed that ...
Talking Radicalized, monopoly and DRM with the Techdirt podcast
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I’m on this week’s Techdirt podcast (MP3) talking about my latest book Radicalized — this being Techdirt, the talk quickly moved to ...
Interview with the Left Field podcast about Radicalized and the EU Copyright Directive
07 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While I was out on tour with Radicalized, I recorded an interview (MP3) with the Left Field podcast (“A couple of socialists with a couple of be...
Interview with My Summer Lair
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Another great podcast interview from my Radicalized book tour: this one with My Summer Lair (MP3) where host Sammy Younan and I discussed the book fro...
Talking Radicalized, rum, writing, self-care and technological self-determination with Security Sandbox
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During my book tour for Radicalized, I recorded a podcast interview (MP4) with the Security Sandbox podcast (formerly Hacker Culture). Host Sean Sun a...
Talking Radicalized on CBC’s Day 6, with Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail
23 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This morning, CBC’s flagship weekend programme Day Six aired its latest episode (MP3), a conversation between host Brent Bambury, me, and Tim Ma...
Interview with Taming the Net: “How to preserve the freedom of the internet without letting the internet destroy democracy.”
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I recently recorded an interview with Yascha Mounk for Slate’s “Taming the Net podcast (MP3), whose mission is: “How to preserve the...
Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday’s Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday, hundreds of us gathered at the Internet Archive, at the invitation of Creative Commons, to celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Dom...
Interview on A World That Might Just Work with Terrence McNally
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I sat down for an interview (MP3) with Terrence McNally for his World That Just Might Work show to talk about information politics, science...
Video from the launch of the EFF/McSweeney’s “End of Trust” project launch with Cindy Cohn, Annalee Newitz, and me!
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The End of Trust is the first-ever nonfiction issue of McSweeney’s, co-edited by McSweeney’s editors and the staff of the Electronic Front...
Christmas podcast with Poesy, 2018 edition
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An annual tradition (MP3)! Poesy is now 10 — nearly 11! — and this year, she’s decided to offer us a detailed makeup tutorial, with ...
Podcast: “Sole and Despotic Dominion” and “What is the Internet For?”
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s my reading (MP3) of my Locus column, “What is the Internet For?” (which asks, “Is the internet a revolutionary technolo...
Talking dystopia, utopia, science fiction and theories of change on the Netzpolitik podcast
15 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When I was in Berlin last month, I stopped into the offices of Netzpolitik (previously), the outstanding German digital rights activist group, where I...
Talking about the DMCA and 20 years of tech law malpractice on PRI’s Marketplace
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act — tech’s stupidest law — turns 20 this year; I chatted with Molly Wood on Marketplace Tech abou...
Talking about Ron Howard’s Haunted Mansion album with the Comedy on Vinyl podcast
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been two years since I last sat down with Jason Klamm for his Comedy on Vinyl podcast (we were discussing Allan Sherman’s My Son, The...
Podcast: Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s my reading (MP3) of Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back, written for EFF Deeplinks on the morning of the EU’s catas...
Interview with EdSurge about educational technology, school surveillance, open access, and radical pedagogy
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At this year’s World Science Fiction, Tina Nazerian from EdSurge interviewed me (MP3) for a podcast about the future of educational technology, ...
Interview with Fringe FM on Surveillance Capitalism, Big Tech and the future of the internet
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
While at the World Science Fiction Convention, I sat down with Matt Ward from the FringeFM podcast for an interview (MP3) about the future of the inte...
Deep dive into my backlist with the B&N Podcast
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Talking with the B&N Podcast at San Diego Comic-Con is becoming an annual tradition for me; this year’s interview (MP3) with Joel Cunningham...
Talking surveillance, elections, monopolies, and Facebook on the Bots and Ballots podcast
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Burningham interviewed me for his Bots and Ballots podcast (MP3), covering a bunch of extremely timely tech-politics issues: Facebook and the im...
Talking the hard questions of privacy and freedom with the Yale Privacy Lab podcast
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I sat down for an hour-long interview with the Yale Privacy Lab‘s Sean O’Brien (MP3); Sean is a frequent Boing Boing contributo...
Talking copyright, internet freedom, artistic business models, and antitrust with Steal This Show
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I’m on the latest episode of Torrentfreak’s Steal This Show podcast (MP3), where I talk with host Jamie King about “Whether file-sha...
Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s my reading (MP3) of Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags, a Locus Magazine column about the corruption implicit in surveillance capitalism, w...
Podcast: Let’s get better at demanding better from tech
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s my reading (MP3) of Let’s get better at demanding better from tech, a Locus Magazine column about the need to enlist moral, ethical...
Podcast: Petard, Part 04 — CONCLUSION
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the fourth and final part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one, part two, part three), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tom...
Podcast: Petard, Part 03
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the third part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one, part two), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce...
Talking Walkaway, anarchism, social justice and revolution with The Final Straw Radio
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded a great interview (MP3) about my novel Walkaway and how it fits into radical politics; a free, fair and open internet; the Nym Wars, parent...
Talking the writers’ life with the Australia Broadcasting Company’s Green Room show
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this spring, while I was on my Australia/NZ tour, I sat down with Australian author Nick Earls for his Green Room show, (MP3) to gossip, compl...
Podcast: Petard, Part 02
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the second part of my reading (MP3) of Petard (part one), a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling...
Talking privacy and GDPR with Thomson Reuters
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thomson Reuters interviewed me for their new series on data privacy and the EU General Data Protection Regulation; here’s the audio! What if you...
Announcing “Petard,” a new science fiction story reading on my podcast
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the first part of my reading (MP3) of Petard, a story from MIT Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling; a story in...
Interview with Monocle’s Meet the Writers
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, while at Adelaide Writers Week, I sat down with the excellent Georgina Godwin to record an interview (MP3) for Monocole’s “Mee...
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 08: the FINAL INSTALLMENT
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the eighth and final part of my reading (MP3) (part seven, part six, part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who...
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 07
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part seven of my reading (MP3) (part six, part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-wi...
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 06 [FIXED]
18 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part six of my reading (MP3) (part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novell...
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 05 [FIXED]
18 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part five of my reading (MP3) (part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first pu...
Do We Need a New Internet?
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I was one of the interview subjects on an episode of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World called Do We Need a New Internet? (MP3); it’s a fascinat...
The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 04 [FIXED]
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part four of my reading (MP3) (part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in ...
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 03
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part three of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories...
The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 02
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part two of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories a...
Interview with the National Science Teachers Association’s Lab Out Loud podcast
08 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2010, I appeared as a guest on the National Science Teachers Association’s Lab Out Loud podcast, and this year, they had me back as part...
A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: An interview with PRI’s Innovation Hub
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I chatted with Innovation Hub, distributed by PRI, about the role of science fiction and dystopia in helping to shape the future (MP3). Three Takeaway...
Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 01
03 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part one of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories a...
Reviving my Christmas daddy-daughter podcast, with Poesy!
23 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly every year since my daughter Poesy was old enough to sing, we’ve recorded a Christmas podcast; but we missed it in 2016, due to the s...
Talking Walkaway on the Barnes and Noble podcast
16 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded this interview last summer at San Diego Comic-Con; glad to hear it finally live! Authors are, without exception, readers, and behind every ...
Talking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
CNet has started a new book-club podcast, and they honored me by picking my novel Walkaway as their second-ever title. We had a long and far-ranging d...
A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: interview with Innovation Hub
29 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I’m on the latest episode of Innovation Hub (MP3): Science-fiction is a genre that imagines the future. It doesn’t necessarily predict the fut...
Interview with Wired UK’s Upvote podcast
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Back in May, I stopped by Wired UK while on my British tour for my novel Walkaway to talk about the novel, surveillance, elections, and, of course, DR...
Audio from my NYPL appearance with Edward Snowden
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, I appeared onstage with Edward Snowden at the NYPL, hosted by Paul Holdengraber, discussing my novel Walkaway. The library has just posted...
Talking about contestable futures on the Imaginary Worlds podcast
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I’m in the latest episode of Imaginary Worlds, “Imagining the Internet” (MP3), talking about the future as a contestable place that ...
My guest-appearance on Hello From the Magic Tavern
29 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I’m a huge fan of the fantastically rude improv/current affairs/high fantasy podcast Hello From the Magic Tavern, I’ve enjoyed it ever sin...
Talking Walkaway on the Techdirt podcast
16 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last week I sat down with Mike Masnick, the crusading technology journalist who coined the “Streisand Effect” and runs the fantastic site ...
A chat with the NEA, about WALKAWAY and sundry subjects
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The National Endowment for the Arts podcast recorded a great, wide-ranging interview with me (MP3) about my novel Walkaway and a variety of subjects, ...
Announcing the Walkaway audiobook, with Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Amanda Palmer and more!
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s Wil Wheaton reading “Communist Party,” the opening chapter of “Walkaway,” my first novel for adults since 2009...
Talking Walkaway on the Author Stories podcast
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My novel Walkaway came out today and I sat down yesterday with the Author Stories Podcast to talk about writing, publishing, and, of course, the novel...
Reply All covers DRM and the W3C
02 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Reply All, a fantastic tech podcast, the hosts and producers discuss the situation with DRM, the future of the web, and the W...
Free audiobook of Car Wars, my self-driving car/crypto back-door apocalypse story
21 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, Melbourne’s Deakin University published Car Wars, a short story I wrote to inspire thinking and discussion about the engineering eth...
Everything is a Remix, including Star Wars, and that’s how I became a writer
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirby Ferguson, who created the remarkable Everything is a Remix series, has a new podcast hosted by the Recreate Coalition called Copy This and he ho...
Interview with IEEE-USA Insight Podcast
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I was interviewed for the IEEE-USA Insight Podcast last summer in New Orleans, during their Future Leaders Summit, where I was privileged to give the ...