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'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.
Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.
If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.
The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.
Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.
I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.
Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.
Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.
Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.
When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.
A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.
Humans have obviously contributed a great deal of carbon to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up.
To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.
RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.
Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.
In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.
It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.
Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.
I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.
It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.
At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.
To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.
Evolution, climate change, and the construction of the physical universe down to its atoms are processes that we measure in millions or billions of years.
Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.
Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.
Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.
Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.
You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.
I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.
'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.