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 …

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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