Tom Standage talks about his book, "Writing on the Wall: Social Media -- The First 2,000 Years."
Tom Standage talks about his book, "Writing on the Wall: Social Media -- The First 2,000 Years."
There's money in the future. It's Liz Crawford's job to help big corporations figure out how to make it.
Satish Kumar became a Jain monk at the age of nine. Now he's the editor of Resurgence magazine...
Historian Ron Numbers talks with Steve Paulson. Numbers was once an ardent creationist and is the author of "The Creationists," the definitive history of the anti-evolutionist movement.
Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff takes us on a tour through the virtual world of Second Life.
Dan Lyons was a magazine writer and the technology editor at Newsweek. But one Friday morning, he found out that he'd lost his job. He was 50 with a wife and two kids. What was he going to do? And then he had an idea -- since he had so much experience reporting on Silicon Valley and the tech explosing, why not join it? So Dan scored a gig with HubSpot, a Boston start-up flush with 100 million dollars in venture capital. It was an experience, to say the least.
Wendy Burden is the author of "Dead End Gene Pool," a memoir of her childhood among wealthy but highly dysfunctional remnants of the Vanderbilt fortune.