Plutopia News Network

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We talk to interesting people via podcast and weekly livestream.

Episode Date
Richard Wolinsky: Science Fiction
Sep 07, 2026
Data Centers, Political Chaos, and the Cost of the AI Boom
Aug 31, 2026
Finn Myrstad: Reclaiming the Internet
Aug 24, 2026
Peter Wang: Beyond Skynet
Aug 17, 2026
Leonie Tanczer: Technology and Control
Aug 10, 2026
Amber Case: Calm Technology
Aug 04, 2026
Brett Hurt: Love Conquers Fear
Jul 27, 2026
Rob van Eijk: Privacy, AI, and Digital Sovereignty
Jul 20, 2026
Living Your Truth: Counseling, Community, and LGBTQ Resilience
Jul 13, 2026
Texas at a Crossroads
Jul 06, 2026
Peter Richardson: Brand New Beat
Jun 29, 2026
Hugh Forrest: Growing Experiences
Jun 22, 2026
Steven Bellovin: Don’t Get Hacked!
Jun 15, 2026
Deborah Cohen: Bad Influence
Jun 08, 2026
Patient Power in the Age of AI
Jun 01, 2026
Plutopia Tribal Chat
May 25, 2026
Cindy Cohn: Privacy’s Defender
May 18, 2026
David Miles: The Viral Sneeze
May 11, 2026
Nathan Schneider: Governable Spaces and Democracy
May 04, 2026
Ed Lenert: AI, Truth, and Political Kayfabe
Apr 27, 2026
Helen Pearson: Beyond Belief
Apr 20, 2026
Tereza Pultarova: Space, Science, and Drone Wars
Apr 13, 2026
Stephen Dulaney: The AI Ambition
Apr 07, 2026
Paulina Borsook on Tech, AI, and Billionaire Madness
Mar 30, 2026
Anne Boysen: AI Hype, Agents, and Risk
Mar 23, 2026
Marc Abrahams: Improbable Research and Ig Nobel Prizes
Mar 16, 2026
Roy Casagranda on Iran, War, and Global Fallout
Mar 09, 2026
Kate Devlin: Robot Love
Mar 02, 2026
Gareth Branwyn in Slumberland
Feb 23, 2026
Shira Chess: The Unseen Internet
Feb 16, 2026
David Weinberger on AI
Feb 10, 2026
Jon Lebkowsky interviewed by Doomscroll
Feb 09, 2026
Ken MacLeod: Imagined Futures
Feb 03, 2026
Adam Roberts: Fantasy
Jan 26, 2026
Dave Evans: Does It Square?
Jan 19, 2026
Living Philosophy
Jan 12, 2026
Roy Casagranda: Reviewing 2025
Jan 05, 2026
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification
Dec 29, 2025
Paul Robbins: Resilience
Dec 22, 2025
Deborah Hyde: Skeptical Inquiry into the Supernatural
Dec 16, 2025
Johannes Grenzfurthner: Hacking at Leaves
Dec 09, 2025
Bruce Schneier: Rewiring Democracy
Dec 01, 2025
Próspera: Governance as a Service (GaaS)
Nov 24, 2025
Jennifer Granick: Surveillance and Cybersecurity
Nov 18, 2025
Pete Cochrane: Pursuing Truth
Nov 10, 2025
Sophie Nightingale: Our Minds on Digital Technology
Nov 04, 2025
Ben Collier: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
Oct 27, 2025
Colin Wright: Juggling Mathematics
Oct 20, 2025
Sumner Erickson: Actors of Sound
Oct 13, 2025
Mike Aaron: Digital Lifeguard
Oct 06, 2025
Roy Casagranda: Politics 2025
Sep 29, 2025
Nate Wilcox: The State of the Union
Sep 22, 2025
Paulina Borsook and Brian Maggi: In Formation Magazine
Sep 15, 2025
Jeremy Faludi: Sustainable Design
Sep 08, 2025
Hugh Forrest: Community Experience
Sep 01, 2025
James L. Wayman: Automated Human Identification
Aug 25, 2025
It’s All Balcones Fault!
Aug 17, 2025
Michael Marshall: Compassionate Skepticism
Aug 11, 2025
John Seabrook: The Spinach King
Aug 04, 2025
Chris Tomlinson: Texas Flood
Jul 27, 2025
Pat Cadigan: Ultraseven and Beyond
Jul 21, 2025
Charles Herrman: Honor and Dignity
Jul 14, 2025
The World, the Flesh, and SXSW 1994
Jul 12, 2025
Brendan McNally: Traitor’s Odyssey
Jul 07, 2025
James Wright: Medieval Myth-Busting and the Archaeology of Buildings
Jun 30, 2025
Talking Heads from Plutopia!
Jun 23, 2025
Chris French: A Skeptic’s Skeptic
Jun 16, 2025
Patrick Ball: Data and Human Rights
Jun 09, 2025
Neal Baer: The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
Jun 02, 2025
Jonathan Kamens: A Technologist’s Warning
May 26, 2025
Cindy Cohn and Kevin Welch: Settling the Electronic Frontier
May 19, 2025
Sandy Stone: Finding Girl Island
May 12, 2025
Will Kreth: Human and Digital
May 05, 2025
Michael Tobis: The Canada Divide
Apr 28, 2025
Travels with Ray Thompson
Apr 21, 2025
Axon: For All
Apr 14, 2025
Darryl Cunningham on Musk the Oligarch
Apr 07, 2025
Paul Alan Levy: Defending Free Speech
Apr 01, 2025
JFK Died for Our Sins
Mar 24, 2025
Pat Cadigan: Cyberpunk Redux
Mar 17, 2025
Red Flag Warning: Wildfire Politics
Mar 11, 2025
Alan Watts on Meow Wolf
Mar 03, 2025
The Barking DOGE
Feb 25, 2025
Empowered Patients and AI
Feb 17, 2025
Resistance is Not Futile
Feb 10, 2025
Rebecca Mercuri: Electronic Voting
Feb 04, 2025
David Miles: Viruses and Vaccines
Jan 27, 2025
Roy Casagranda: Inauguration 2025
Jan 19, 2025
Jon and Scoop: Chaos Navigators
Jan 13, 2025
Robert Fripp: The Art of Frippertronics
Jan 06, 2025
Michelle Gladieux: Communicate with Courage
Dec 30, 2024
Ahana Datta: CyberSecurity
Dec 24, 2024
Gathering Online: Social Media vs Community
Dec 16, 2024
Vietnam Redux
Dec 09, 2024
Ann-Marie Wilson: Opposing FGM Globally
Dec 02, 2024
Jane Hirshfield and Tiffany Lee Brown: Sanity and Gratitude
Nov 25, 2024
Jaye Robinson: Practical AI
Nov 19, 2024
Lee Felsenstein: Big Ideas
Nov 11, 2024
Roy Casagranda: Election 2024
Nov 03, 2024
Jeff Jarvis: Weaving the World-Wide Web
Oct 28, 2024
Joanna Price: Building Community Online
Oct 21, 2024
R.U. Sirius: Mondo 2024
Oct 14, 2024
Ken Flippin: The Green Wave
Oct 07, 2024
Glenn Smith: Authoritarianism and the Fight for Democracy
Sep 30, 2024
Christopher Brown: A Natural History of Empty Lots
Sep 23, 2024
Gil Friend: Natural Logic
Sep 17, 2024
Nadya Wynd: At Her Feet
Sep 09, 2024
Linda Castellani and Tim Powers on Philip K. Dick
Sep 02, 2024
Michael Tobis: Racing Toward the Worst
Aug 26, 2024
Susan McCarthy: The Crowdstrike Apology
Aug 19, 2024
Nick Selby: Law Enforcement and Security
Aug 12, 2024
Bruce Sterling: Cyberpunk, Space, and Design
Aug 05, 2024
David Miles: How Vaccines Work
Jul 29, 2024
James Ball: How Bullshit Conquered the World
Jul 22, 2024
A Plutopian Juncture
Jul 16, 2024
Nate Wilcox: Realpolitik
Jul 08, 2024
Ian Forrester: Media R&D
Jul 01, 2024
Stanton Friedman on UFOs
Jun 24, 2024
Plutopian History, Analog Media, and Attacks on Democracy
Jun 18, 2024
The Plutopian Buzz
Jun 10, 2024
Patrick Lichty: Digital Art
Jun 03, 2024
Plutopian Jam: Worms Ate Our Brains
May 21, 2024
Jay Stanley: Privacy and Civil Liberties
May 13, 2024
Madeline Bocaro: Infinite Yoko
May 06, 2024
Mike Nelson: Technology Policy
Apr 29, 2024
Snow Crash
Apr 28, 2024
Science Friction!
Apr 15, 2024
Friedrich Moser: How to Build a Truth Engine
Apr 09, 2024
Susannah Fox: Rebel Health
Apr 01, 2024
Woke Plutopians Wax Philosophical!
Mar 25, 2024
David Gans: Psychedelia and Groove
Mar 12, 2024
Jen Persson: Defend Digital Me
Mar 05, 2024
Jake Dunagan: Politics and Governance
Feb 26, 2024
Football Feverish
Feb 20, 2024
Moira Meltzer-Cohen: Justice Struggles
Feb 12, 2024
Richard Bartle: Virtual Worlds
Feb 06, 2024
Renshin Bunce: Remembering Myogen Steve Stücky
Jan 29, 2024
Brenda Laurel: Games for Girls
Jan 23, 2024
joey lopez phd: Making Media
Jan 15, 2024
Fact-checking the Infosphere
Jan 10, 2024
State of Social Media
Jan 09, 2024
Johannes Ernst and Tom Brown: The Fediverse
Jan 08, 2024
Ed Cavazos: AI and the Law
Jan 02, 2024
Gus Hosein: Technology and Human Rights
Dec 26, 2023
Pat Cadigan: The Queen of Cyberpunk
Dec 18, 2023
Andy Cohen’s Blues
Dec 11, 2023
Jon Lebkowsky: A Personal History of the Early Internet
Dec 05, 2023
Cindy Grimm and Bill Smart: Robotics
Nov 27, 2023
Don Norman: Design for a Better World
Nov 20, 2023
Patrick Lichty: The Road Ahead
Nov 13, 2023
Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con
Nov 06, 2023
John Schwartz: Journalism and Climate
Oct 31, 2023
Karen Levy: Data Driven
Oct 23, 2023
Tom Parish: The Human Use of AI
Oct 16, 2023
Stay Awake for Halloween!
Oct 15, 2023
Jeff Jarvis: Beyond the Gutenberg Parenthesis
Oct 10, 2023
Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy: Good and Bad Apologies
Oct 02, 2023
We’re not mentioning Trump by name!
Sep 26, 2023
Laurie Kaye: Confessions of a Rock ‘N’ Roll Name Dropper
Sep 11, 2023
Amy Bruckman: Online Communities
Sep 04, 2023
Rob van Eijk: Hyper-Nudging
Aug 28, 2023
Hugo Campos: Engaged and Empowered Patients
Aug 21, 2023
Wagner James Au: A Metaverse that Matters
Aug 14, 2023
Michael Tobis: Heat Wave!
Aug 07, 2023
Andrew Alden: Deep Oakland
Jul 31, 2023
Max Nofziger’s Climate Activism
Jul 24, 2023
Renshin Bunce: No Gaining Idea
Jul 17, 2023
Alan Chamberlain: Herban Cowboy
Jul 11, 2023
Dave deBronkart and Doc Searls: e-Patients Ride the Cluetrain
Jul 04, 2023
Howard Rheingold: Virtual Communities and the Internet
Jun 26, 2023
Joanna Bryson: Artificial and Natural Intelligence
Jun 19, 2023
Bruce Schneier: A Hacker’s Mind
Jun 12, 2023
Claire Fitch: Human Geography and VR
Jun 05, 2023
Daniel Roesler: OAUTH Explained
May 30, 2023
Ethan Smith: Student Housing Crisis at U.T. Austin
May 22, 2023
Michael Webb: Meditative Inquiry
May 15, 2023
Michael Tobis: The Heat
May 08, 2023
Max Nofziger on the Live Music Capital of the World
May 01, 2023
Nancy White: Life Online
Apr 24, 2023
Wendy Grossman: net.wars
Apr 17, 2023
Tracey Schulz on the SXSW Film Festival 2023
Apr 10, 2023
Jaquita Wilson on Politics
Apr 03, 2023
Robert Wall: Natural Language
Mar 21, 2023
Timothy Leary and Dr. Stephen Pittel: Psychoactivity
Mar 14, 2023
Everything you didn’t know about Texas…but didn’t care enough to ask!
Mar 06, 2023
David Demaris: AI and Technology Power
Feb 28, 2023
Judi Clark: Emergency Preparedness
Feb 20, 2023
Nathan Wilcox: The Flip Side
Feb 13, 2023
Carl Stone and Eric Theise: A Conversation
Jan 30, 2023
Tracey Schulz: Tune In And Turn On The Radio!
Jan 23, 2023
SO LONG MOM, I’M OFF TO DROP THE BOMB!
Jan 16, 2023
2022 Postmortem, Part 2
Jan 10, 2023
Plutopian Postmortem: 2022
Jan 02, 2023
Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism
Dec 26, 2022
Casey Walker: Changing the News
Dec 19, 2022
Pablo Vazquez: Multireligious
Dec 13, 2022
Douglas Rushkoff: The Mindset
Nov 29, 2022
Patrick Lichty: Distributing the Future
Nov 21, 2022
Mid-term Election Debrief
Nov 14, 2022
Midterm Voting, Twitter, and the Wyrd
Nov 07, 2022
Daniel Hope: A Spiritual Direction
Nov 01, 2022
Robert Freeman Wexler: Surreality
Oct 24, 2022
Exploring Political Madness
Oct 18, 2022
Lane Becker: From Actlab to Wikimedia
Oct 10, 2022
Political Obsession
Oct 04, 2022
Roboexotica and Razzennest
Sep 25, 2022
Current Events (Are Making Us Tense!)
Sep 11, 2022
EFF-Austin!
Sep 06, 2022
Red vs Blue Blues
Aug 30, 2022
The Human Journey
Aug 22, 2022
Dark Brandon Rises!
Aug 15, 2022
Searching for Meaning
Aug 08, 2022
Language is a Virus from Outer Space
Aug 01, 2022
Food and Frenzy
Jul 25, 2022
Plutopians on Politics
Jul 18, 2022
Computer Chronicles
Jul 11, 2022
Roy Casagranda on Politics
Jul 04, 2022
Kevin Driscoll: Modem World Convergence
Jun 28, 2022
Stanton Friedman: The Ufologist
Jun 20, 2022
Jim Rutt: The Business of Technology
Jun 14, 2022
More Monsters from the Id
May 22, 2022
Michael Webb and Charles Herrman: Meditative Inquiry
May 18, 2022
Prayer and Mantra for a Sane World
May 11, 2022
Alexandra Alvarez: 21st Century Entrepreneur
May 09, 2022
Free Speech
May 02, 2022
AKMA Adam: Interpretation and Belief
Apr 25, 2022
Cold War Kids
Apr 18, 2022
Jamais Cascio: Epiphany Engines
Apr 12, 2022
Gareth Branwyn: Makers
Apr 05, 2022
Caveat Magister: Turning Your Life Into Art
Mar 28, 2022
Jon and Scoop: After the Ides of March
Mar 21, 2022
A Canadian Perspective with Michael Tobis
Mar 14, 2022
Medicine, Politics, and Free-Ranging Plutopians
Mar 07, 2022
Kevin Driscoll: The Modem World
Feb 21, 2022
Plutopia Live: Field Notes
Feb 12, 2022
Todd Lappin: Free Speech
Feb 07, 2022
Gary Gach on Thich Nhat Hanh
Feb 01, 2022
Lex Pelger: Warrior of the Weird
Jan 24, 2022
On Creativity
Jan 17, 2022
Milagro de Taos
Jan 10, 2022
Plutopian Review of 2021
Jan 10, 2022
2021 Redux!
Jan 03, 2022
Plutopian Week: Frisell, State of the World, Web3
Jan 03, 2022
Plutopian Week: Bill Evans, Culadasa, Red Pill, Rich MacKinnon
Dec 28, 2021
Ed Cavazos: Cyberlaw
Dec 27, 2021
Joe Verona: Brainwave Entrainment
Dec 20, 2021
Plutopian Week: Happy Holidaze, Ambient, Meditation, Utopia, Matrix
Dec 20, 2021
Plutopian Week: SomaFM, Orwell, Pinker, Musk
Dec 14, 2021
Sam the Fungi: Ending Mycophobia
Dec 13, 2021
Felix Stalder on “The Dawn of Everything”
Dec 07, 2021
Kevin Russell: Welcome Mr. Shinyribs!
Dec 06, 2021
Plutopian Week: Let Go of Fear
Dec 06, 2021
Plutopian Week: Beatles, Vaccines, Bateson, Solarpunk, Land Art
Nov 29, 2021
Jasmina Tešanović: Torino, Ibiza, the World
Nov 29, 2021
Plutopian Week: Lloyd, Brain, Politics, Weinberger
Nov 22, 2021
Spike Gillespie: Freewheelin’
Nov 16, 2021
Plutopian Week: Lounge Music, History, Pronoia, Cooking
Nov 15, 2021
Nate Wilcox: Real Politics
Nov 08, 2021
Plutopian Week: Beatles, Supply Chain, Lee, Schrodinger
Nov 08, 2021
Day of the Dead
Nov 01, 2021
The voices in our heads
Oct 31, 2021
Plutopian Week: Coltrane, Sterling, Frauenfelder, Garfield
Oct 30, 2021
Vahid Razavi: Big Tech Stories
Oct 25, 2021
Halloween Utopia
Oct 25, 2021
Pat Cadigan: Alien 3 and Me
Oct 18, 2021
Tom Miller Redux: A Plutopia flashback to an early episode.
Oct 11, 2021
Stephanie Vale: Jane Austen Fan Fiction
Oct 04, 2021
Johannes Grenzfurthner: Nerd Culture
Sep 27, 2021
Chris Zappone: Media, Social Media, and Politics
Sep 20, 2021
Suzanne Stefanac: Radio Free Zorca
Sep 13, 2021
Plutopian Rock and Roll
Sep 06, 2021
Eliza Evans Returns: Art and Activism
Aug 30, 2021
Tom Jennings Redux: Civil War 2021
Aug 23, 2021
Michael Tobis: Climate, Covid, and Crazy Times
Aug 16, 2021
Sandy Stone and the Hound of Heaven
Aug 10, 2021
John Hagel: Passion of the Explorer
Aug 02, 2021
Spike Gillespie: Fear and Loathing in Texas
Jul 26, 2021
Nate Wilcox: Politics Unusual
Jul 19, 2021
David Gans: Music and Community
Jul 12, 2021
Plutopian News Analysis and Ramble, July 2021
Jul 05, 2021
Network Politics: A Manifesto in the Making?
Jul 03, 2021
Paulina Borsook: Writer, Artist, Ghost
Jun 29, 2021
Evelyn Jean Pine: Playwright In The Pandemic
Jun 21, 2021
Angie Coiro: The Art of the Interview
Jun 14, 2021
Remembering Ed Ward
Jun 07, 2021
John Coate: Managing Online Communities
May 31, 2021
Sacred Data and AI: An Indigenous Perspective
May 25, 2021
UFOs: The Truth is Out There
May 17, 2021
Pat Cadigan: Covid and Cancer Won’t Stop Me From Going To Work
May 10, 2021
Patrick Lichty: NFTs and Artechnology
May 03, 2021
Steve Stroh: Broadband Access
Apr 26, 2021
Ed Lenert: Communications and Democracy
Apr 19, 2021
Doc Searls: Digital Age Media
Apr 13, 2021
Jean Russell: Thrivability
Apr 05, 2021
Carol Flake Chapman: Maybe We Will All Become Butterflies
Mar 29, 2021
The Anti-Fragile Playbook
Mar 22, 2021
Plutopia Team: The State of Social Media
Mar 15, 2021
Christopher Rice and Donna Kidwell: The Future of Higher Education
Mar 08, 2021
Joseph Rowe: Postmodern Madness
Mar 01, 2021
Scoop and Jon: Texas Snowpocalypse
Feb 23, 2021