Just Beyond the Horizon: What SXSW 2025 Reveals About The Next Five Years
SXSW 2025 unveils a profound technological convergence where innovation across space exploration, quantum computing, and AI isn't just creating more powerful tools, but fundamentally expanding the canvas of human creativity and potential.
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Living in Metal and Stars: Space, Robotics, and Quantum Computing (SXSW 2025 Day 5)
At SXSW's final day, technology transcended science fiction as bionic limbs that feel, space imagery that connects us, and quantum computing that may unlock nature's deepest secrets reminded us that our future isn't just about what these tools can do—but how they'll transform what it means to be human.
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Human-Centered Tech: Finding Balance in the AI Revolution (Day 4 at SXSW)
On Day 4 of SXSW 2025, I retreated to my hotel room to watch keynotes about AI workplace transformation and user-controlled social media, discovering how tomorrow's technology needs human-centered thinking to truly succeed.
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Beyond the Visible: Webb Telescope Rewrites Our Cosmic Understanding (Day 3 at SXSW)
From the Webb telescope's galaxy-shattering discoveries to Colossal's de-extinction breakthroughs, Day 3 at SXSW 2025 revealed how humanity stands at the threshold of understanding our cosmic origins and biological future.
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Living Intelligence: The Era of Robots Has Finally Arrived (Day 2 at SXSW)
The robots are coming—for real this time—as Amy Webb unveils how "Living Intelligence" is finally teaching clumsy machines to navigate our messy human world, while Europe wonders if America's race to market might be missing something important: the human touch.
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SXSW 2025 Day 1: Small Language Models, Quantum Computing, and the AI Revolution
SXSW 2025 kicks off with a focus on hard sciences, revealing how Small Language Models, quantum computing, and robotics are converging to reshape medicine, research, and everyday life—though some technologies show more immediate promise than others.
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Beyond the Academic Publishing Crisis: Building an Open Access Nonprofit Actually Works
Watching the 20th editorial board resignation since 2023 reminded us how important it was to continue finding new publishing models that serve authors. Late last year, we launched Play Story Press with a bold vision.
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Ready for a New Chapter in Digital Storytelling (Let's Talk)
After more than two decades of leading content strategy initiatives, managing publishing operations, and scaling teams, I'm exploring the next phase of my career. Let's chat at SXSW 2025 or over virtual coffee.
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This Could Be Important, My Conversation with Pamela McCorduck
In 2019, the ETC Press published Pamela McCorduck's book, THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT. Here, I'm releasing clips of our conversation about her life as one of the early science + technology writers.
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A SXSW Guide to Surviving the Nerdpocalypse
A compendium of what I've learned in my twenty-five years navigating SXSW Interactive, the greatest show on earth.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel: She Was Our Rock God Writer
Elizabeth Wurtzel was—and forever will be—our GenX Rock God Writer.
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GenX Tribe: On Trauma, Growing Up, Media, & How We Interact with the World
Back in January, I posted a tweet about Generation X that turned my life a little bit bonkers for about […]
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GenX, That Damned Newsweek Editorial, George Michael, and the Twitter Hellscape
In 1993, Newsweek labeled GenX as the "The Whiny Generation." We've been not giving a shit about that since. Also—George Michael is pretty great.
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GenX Tribe: Breaking Bones and Other Stories of Walking it Off
GenXers grew up breaking bones, having accidents, and dealing with mayhem—and many times going to the doctor was the LAST thing we did. So—share your story of GenX Catastrophes!
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The Books that Influence My Writing Life
My favorite conversation: What books influenced you? These are the books that influenced my life as a writer.
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The Fourth of July and the Meaning of the Declaration
My middle school history teacher John Viall—a dedicated and decorated teacher—wrote a wonderful post about America, the Fourth, and e pluribus unum.
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Won't You Be My Neighbor, or How Mister Rogers Took on a Border Wall
King Friday XIII orders a border wall to be built. Lady Aberlin takes balloons, tied with messages of peace and love, and floats them across the wall.
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Fitzgerald, in Volumes
Whenever I see Fitzgerald in the bookstore, I can't but recall fondly how his books taught me to write.
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Circle City New Play Fest
Circle City New Play Fest brings national and local playwrights to Indy for the development of new work. With four staged readings over one weekend, Circle City New Play Fest invites audiences to be part of the process of taking these plays to the next level.
Read More ›Scripted: Letters Sent by Janice Hibbard
For our December edition of Scripted, we'll hear Letters Sent by Janice Hibbard. Claire sent a lot of letters - some loving, some toxic. She never thought she'd be around to see the consequences, but now she is. A empathetic, but never sappy, portrait of a woman struggling to figure out what to do next.
Read More ›Scripted: J. Eyre by Paige Scott
For our first Scripted on November 13th, we'll hear Act One of J. Eyre by Paige Scott. This musical adaptation of Jane Eyre is a reimagining of the story that is passionate, funny, and packed full of surprises.
Read More ›Scripted: Between the Page and the Stage
Scripted is a new monthly reading series from The Geeky Press, starting November 2016. New works written by local playwrights and read by local actors. Hosted by Elise @The Geeky Press.
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By Acclamation
We must find a way to create spaces for women where they are free to push and explore the boundaries of what they can do. A note on what I've heard this weekend.
Read More ›The Geeky Press/Youshare Project Reading Series, Vol. 1
Join us Friday, July 15, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Metonymy Media for The Geeky Press/Youshare Project Reading Series! 8 Readers on "The Moment Everything Changed."
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