Warren Ellis at MIT

>>8744793
is this pop sci garbage or actually good?

>>8744802
What about you watch it and decide for yourself?

>>8744802
Not usually, but I think he's pretty good with it.

Ellis usually digs up some weird real life stories and even talks with people about real life shit for use in his books.

>>8744804
Shut the fuck up self.

They're mentioned about how fiction affects public opinion on science and therefore affects how science gets developed and funded.

>>8744793
I enjoyed reading the Transmetropolitan series

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>>8744816
I enjoyed it too, but it terrifies me how it is bleeding into reality.

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Ooo. Talking about how he worked with some Oslo scientists and used their research into RFID signals into a book.

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>>8744823
One thing they did was visually mapping signal strength on video.

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I got Normal signed at a shop across the river in Boston he stopped at.

The whole "thinking about the end of all day" driving you insane seems too familiar to me this past year.

It's about people specializing in climate change and other futurist fields planning for end of civilization scenarios. And how they go insane from working on horrifying end scenarios.

I think there was someone he talked to who worked on urban planning and about how horrifyingly easily it was for a city to literally drown in its own shit when the city plumbing goes wrong.

"The science in your science fiction is no bullshit."
"Ehh. It's a little bullshit."

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"Hoping for flying space daddy will get you killed. The only thing that can save us is us."

I should check this author out, never heard of him.