Play Episode Podcast 3 weird things about Seattle’s Archie McPhee: It’s original, national, and some of its products flop Play Pickles that yodel. Foot-tall punching nuns. Inflatable unicorn horns for cats. A rubber chicken museum. And, of course, a wide… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Behind the scenes at Cinerama: Landmark movie house becomes an international pop culture draw Play You may think of Seattle’s Cinerama theater as just a cool place to watch movies. Yet for some, it represents… Read More
Play Episode Podcast How this workshop creates some of the world’s top sci-fi and fantasy writers, inside a Seattle house Play This and every summer around the first of August, 18 students leave a house in Seattle’s University District, after an… Read More
Play Episode Podcast How science fiction can predict the future and help tech innovators make better decisions Play Organizations may do better in planning for the future by thinking less like business leaders and more like science-fiction writers.… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Seattle Art Museum’s first-ever CTO sculpts SAM’s technology future on a non-profit budget Play Even in a region of technology giants and in an age of screens, it might be possible to overdo tech… Read More
Podcast Inside MoPOP’s world-premiere Marvel exhibit: The human sides of heroes and their creators If you only know Marvel from the movies, you don’t really know Marvel. That’s the sense you get when you enter… Read More
Podcast Library of Congress saves the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other online ‘web cultures’ If you had to describe the unique “culture” of the web by highlighting a bunch of websites, would you choose… Read More
Podcast Dystopia or utopia? Author and futurist Ramez Naam revisits his 2015 predictions for the world At GeekWire, we don’t mind being held accountable for our predictions. But if we can hold others accountable — well,… Read More
Podcast Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech If you were to ask globally known clean energy expert Ramez Naam what makes him optimistic about technology and the… Read More
Podcast From Harry Potter to Star Trek Beyond, behind the scenes with Seattle Symphony’s multi-sensory tech What do Casablanca, Star Trek Beyond, and Looney Tunes have in common? All have been accompanied on the big screen… Read More
Podcast Tech fad or real trend? Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs places bets in newest exhibits What makes a tech development a fad or a trend? Sometimes, the answer isn’t clear. Yet trend-or-fad math appears to… Read More
Podcast How this museum makes moldy machines work again, saving historic computers for the future It came from a garage in North Carolina. “We’d been looking for many years for an IBM 360,” Lath Carlson… Read More
Podcast Public radio’s digital moment: Smartphones, streaming, and the future of listening Public radio and digital tech are having a moment. Not only has National Public Radio listenership hit an all-time high, NPR… Read More
Podcast Hey, obsessed pop culture fan: You may have something museums want Those science-fiction film lobby cards you rescued from the back of a movie theater about to shutter? That dusty prop… Read More
Podcast Preserving the future: How MoPOP protects and presents our ever-changing popular culture There can be magic in an object that represents a beloved memory or moment. But, as with any pursuit of… Read More
Podcast So you want to write sci-fi? Tips from the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Want to be a science fiction or fantasy writer? You’d better sit down. That’s the advice from Cat Rambo, a… Read More
Podcast Game writers to be honored with Nebula Award in first for professional science fiction and fantasy org Ever since the success of Valve’s Half-Life nearly 20 years ago, video games of all types have been increasingly expected… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Science fiction has won the war: Best-selling author Greg Bear on the genre’s new ‘golden age’ Play From the perspective of one of science fiction’s best-selling and longtime authors, the state of science fiction is golden. Golden… Read More
