Techs on Texts

Techs on Texts is a podcast featuring conversations with technologists about the literature that has influenced them. Hosted and produced by Jed Sundwall.Learn more at https://techsontexts.net

Techs on Texts is a arts podcast hosted by Jed Sundwall, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jed Sundwall hosts Techs on Texts, a arts show with 29 episodes published.

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  Techs on Texts is on Hiatus

  Jun 30, 20263 min

  I'm too busy to do this thing the way I want to, so I'm taking a few months off before coming back with something better. In the meantime, please check out: The Ends of Information: Searching for Truth in the Digital Age by Nissim Lebovits: https://symposeum.us/the-ends-of-information/ Downtown Loyal Heights: https://dtlh.org Tons of CNG (Cloud-Native Geo) events this year: https://cloudnativegeo.org/events Email me at jed at techsontexts.net 🫰 If you enjoyed this, please share it. Produced by Jed Sundwall . Write to jed at techsontexts.net with feedback and suggestions for books or guests. Intro music by Secret School . Outro music is "3/10th of the Population" by WE™ . Please donate to Radiant Earth .

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  Episode #28

  Episode #28: George Dyson on The Tale of the Big Computer

  May 31, 20261h 10mS0

  <p>George Dyson – historian, boat maker, and volunteer Staff Historian at Radiant Earth – returns for his fourth appearance to discuss The Tale of the Big Computer, written by Hannes Alfvén in 1966 under the pseudonym Olof Johannesson. Published in Swedish in 1966, the novel is a remarkably prescient vision of how machine intelligence could quietly take over the organization of society. We discuss Alfvén's "sociological complexity theorem," his uncannily accurate predictions of the internet and neural interfaces, a devastating early joke about open-source code as a safeguard, how influence technology now outpaces vote-counting technology, the case for local governance, and why we...

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  Episode #27

  Episode #27: Justin Kiggins on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  Apr 29, 20261h 12mS0

  <p>Justin Kiggins, neuroscientist, artisinal oboe reed maker, and builder at the intersection of AI and biology, joins us to discuss Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. We explore the book's concept of Quality, what it is, where it lives in the scientific method, and whether AI will make it more or less elusive.</p> <h3>Show notes:</h3> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on Wikipedia Plato's Phaedrus and the myth of Theuth and Thamus — Socrates recounts an Egyptian myth: Theuth, inventor of writing, brings it to King Thamus as a gift for memory; Thamus re...

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  Episode #26

  Episode #26: JB Flinders on Sneakers

  Mar 31, 20261h 25mS0

  <p>JB Flinders – omnitechnologist, fellow Ute, and co-host of the Andy and Ammon's Excellent Odyssey podcast: joins us to discuss the 1993 film Sneakers. We discuss data as the primary seat of power, the ethics of privacy protection work, panopticons, Heidegger's "standing reserve," fear as the driver behind nearly every decision in the film (and in life), and what Martin Bishop means when he says "There's nobody there."</p> <p>This was a continuation of conversations JB and I have had for 30 years. What a joy.</p> <h3>Show notes:</h3> Sneakers on Wikipedia Phil Alden Robinson: director and co-writer of Sn...

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  Episode #25

  Episode #25: Kate Chapman on Wool by Hugh Howey

  Feb 28, 20261h 28mS0

  <p>Kate Chapman, geographer and technologist, joins us to discuss Hugh Howey's Wool. We discuss failures of governance, the perils of IT supremacy, the difficult ethics of constrained environments, and competitive goating.</p> <p>Kate shares her background building digital public infrastructure (Common Space, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Open Supply Hub) and currently providing fractional CTO work and AI enablement. We discuss how Wool serves as a cautionary tale about bad governance, the intersection of information control and governance, and what happens when humans can't push boundaries or explore frontiers.</p> <h3>Show notes:</h3> Wool by Hugh Howey - Originally published...

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