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
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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.
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.
'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.