Monthly Archives: March 2010

Next on Copper Robot our guest will be Linden Lab chief product officer Tom Hale. I’ll talk with Tom about Viewer 2.0, and Linden Lab’s plans for Second Life in the springtime and beyond. Join us! WHEN: Wednesday, March 31, … Continue reading →

Chronic City is a novel about how the real world is becoming more unreal, like a virtual reality, so it’s appropriate that I interviewed its author, Jonathan Lethem, in the virtual-reality world of Second Life. Lethem described Chronic City as … Continue reading →

Next on Copper Robot, our guest will be Gina Trapani, author of the book The Complete Guide to Google Wave. We’ll talk to Gina about Google Wave, and the book, and its unusual publishing model. But that’s not all we’ll … Continue reading →

This is short notice, I know, but at 1 pm Pacific time today I’ll be a guest of Smarter Technology, talking about the 2005 science-fiction novel Accelerando, by Charles Stross Accelerando details an effervescent and moving vision of the future … Continue reading →