Category: speaking

• Bridging the personal and the universal

  A key component in great writing is building bridges between the personal and the universal. Without specific incarnation, universals revert to truisms. The insight you’re trying to articulate may be foundational, but cliché drains it of color and weight. Aphorisms can blaze bright on social media because aspiration is a potent fuel for sharing, but…

• Speaking at SXSW: How Fictional Futures Influence Tech

  I’m speaking at SXSW this week on a panel with Kevin Bankston, Malka Older, and Tim Fernholz where we’re going to discuss how fictional futures influence tech: https://schedule.sxsw.com/2019/events/PP86251 “What does it mean when many of the richest and most powerful people on the planet—like Elon Musk, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos—think how they think and…

• Appearing at New York Comic Con October 4-6

  I’ll be participating in two panels at New York Comic Con this year: http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/en/Contributors/6609056/Eliot-Peper The first one explores the politics of modern speculative fiction and the second one grapples with how science fiction tackles the challenges of climate change when politicians don’t. We’ll be doing a joint signing at each panel so come say hi,…

• Speaking at GamesBeat Summit

  Next week I’ll be speaking at GamesBeat Summit in Berkeley. They even wrote up a nice story about it here. This is what we’ll cover: The pace of innovation is accelerating. Technological revolutions that once took millennia to play out now take decades, years, months. At the same time, science fiction has rocketed from nerdy…