A ‘Gates tax’ on robots? ‘Email From the Future’ imagines a world without ultra-rich tech titans Visions of Utopia go back to the year 1516, when Thomas More literally wrote the book on the subject —… Read More
Play Episode Podcast How this former tech columnist bridged her family’s political divide, and what we can learn from it Play What would happen to the divisions in our country if we set aside our phones, and our assumptions, and truly… Read More
Amazon’s bizarre bazaar: Strange final chapter for tech giant’s first bricks-and-mortar bookstore “Best Book Club Ever” read one sign inside Amazon Books at Seattle’s University Village this weekend. On the bookshelves below… Read More
Pacific Northwest forests provide the perfect breeding ground for a sci-fi tale about alien invasion If you’re going to write a novel about an alien fungus threatening the planet, there are few places more suited… Read More
Bill Gates’ holiday book list includes a brain booster, and giveaways at Seattle indy bookshops Voracious reader Bill Gates is constantly consuming information and expanding how much knowledge his brain can hold. Fittingly, a book… Read More
Neal Stephenson talks about his climate thriller — and why the metaverse didn’t match his vision This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal Stephenson thought it would when he came… Read More
Junior Geek of the Month: Orion Razat wrote the book on STEM jokes, and has whale of a new idea Orion Razat is a busy kid. The newly turned 12-year-old is already an accomplished author who is working on his… Read More
Bezos vs. Branson vs. Musk: A reality check on the billionaire space race — and space station sci-fi The state of commercial space travel is changing so quickly that even science-fiction authors are struggling to keep up. That’s… Read More
No pie in the sky: Portland pizza is best in U.S., Nathan Myhrvold says in latest epic cookbook If you think New York is a slam dunk as the best pizza city in the U.S., well, fuggedaboutit! According… Read More
Former Washington Post editor writing ‘Collision of Power,’ touching on Trump, Bezos and newspaper Marty Baron, who retired as executive editor of The Washington Post earlier this year, is writing a book about his… Read More
‘Second Nature’: How technology is remaking our world, for better or worse This is a bad time for Mother Nature — but it’s no use trying to turn the clock back. Instead,… Read More
Bill Gates returns to Reddit for meaty discussion on climate, COVID-19, conspiracies and burgers Bill Gates masked up for his ninth “Ask Me Anything” event on Reddit on Friday, taking questions related to climate… Read More
Former Amazon board member Tom Alberg reviews the new book, ‘Working Backwards’ [Editor’s Note: Tom Alberg, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, was an Amazon investor who served… Read More
Books by young inaugural poet Amanda Gorman become quick best sellers on Amazon Amanda Gorman touched a nerve. With her words, the National Youth Poet Laureate stirred a nation and worldwide audience watching… Read More
Outspoken climate researcher dishes out some advice for Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos If billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos really want to maximize their efforts to solve the global climate crisis,… Read More
‘Five good books for a lousy year’: Bill Gates turns the page on 2020 with his annual holiday list You don’t have to be a genius to get a read on how rough 2020 has been. What kind of… Read More
Bill Gates looks back at ‘The Road Ahead’ after 25 years and some hit-and-miss tech predictions Bill Gates is spending plenty of time these days looking forward to the solutions that will get us out of… Read More
Play Episode Podcast ‘This company was invented for the pandemic’ — Scott Galloway on Amazon in a ‘Post Corona’ world Play Amazon’s big move into the pharmacy business last week wasn’t a surprise at all, and it’s just part of a… Read More
Amazon names best books of 2020, with ‘timely and powerful’ criminal justice memoir atop list Is there a better time to stay in and catch up on all the reading you meant to get to… Read More
Science-fiction master Ted Chiang explores the rights and wrongs of AI What rights does a robot have? If our machines become intelligent in the science-fiction way, that’s likely to become a… Read More
Wizards of the Coast in court: ‘Dragonlance’ authors file suit over rights to classic ‘D&D’ franchise Two of the authors who created the iconic Dragonlance setting for Dungeons & Dragons are taking Wizards of the Coast… Read More
Indie booksellers feeling ‘Boxed Out’ by Amazon respond with campaign targeting tech giant Independent bookstores across the country put out the unwelcome mat for Amazon and the tech giant’s Prime Day shopping extravaganza… Read More
‘Mysterious $60B woman’: Profile offers rare look at MacKenzie Scott’s distribution of Amazon wealth MacKenzie Scott hasn’t given any interviews about her split from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos or her philanthropic pursuits in the… Read More
Portland’s Powell’s Books says it ‘must take a stand’ and will stop selling books through Amazon Powell’s Books, the venerable independent bookstore in Portland, has had enough with Amazon and will no longer sell books through… Read More
Book excerpt: Why brands must deliver compelling visual content or risk losing their audience [Editor’s note: Amy Balliett is founder and CEO of Seattle-based creative content agency Killer Visual Strategies. This excerpt is from… Read More
Elon Musk tweets, ‘Time to break up Amazon’ as he defends author in dispute over COVID-19 book Elon Musk jumped to the defense of an author on Twitter on Thursday who was claiming that his book submission… Read More
Bill Gates shares 5 books on summer list – and much more to read and watch while stuck at home We’re all looking for some sort of distraction from the daily deluge of coronavirus news and stress, and ways to… Read More
From Big Bang to Big Chill, physicist Brian Greene contemplates the beginning (and end) of everything You might think it’s depressing to contemplate the view that the universe is likely to end in everlasting darkness —… Read More
In Amazon’s hometown, we get a read on Barnes & Noble customers as downtown Seattle store closes Another chapter in Seattle’s storied literary and retail history is coming to a close on Saturday. Barnes & Noble is… Read More
Bill Gates reflects on what he read in 2019 and offers up 5 books for your holiday wish list In the recent Netflix documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain,” books are a constant for the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. We get… Read More
