Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitzis an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has written for periodicals such as Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008 she wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000–2004 she was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004 she became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She also co-founded other magazine with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
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.
We believe that shield laws should apply to anyone gathering information and reporting to the public regardless of the medium, ... If you are gathering that information for your blog, you should qualify and you should be protected.
'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.
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.
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.
Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race.
When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?
Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.
Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.