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Spanning over seven years, Follow for Now includes interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, Douglas Rushkoff, DJ Spooky, Philip K.... read full description

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Jan 10, 2009
Elevate Difference rated it: 4 of 5 stars
There is a lot to love about Follow for Now, a collection of forty-three selected Q & A’s from the archives of frontwheeldrive.com. Here’s one: Most of the interviews are well under 2000 words, which keeps the pages turning at a quick clip. And here’s another: In the first half of the book, the well-known and obscure interviewees deliver lucid, fascinating answers (and pose further questions) about the state of technology, biology, consumer psychology, and all the intersections among them.
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Mar 12, 2008
Ken rated it: 4 of 5 stars
A fantastic aggregate of interviews collected from Roy Christopher's own web site frontwheeldrive.com (now simply roychristopher.com). We don't just hear from scientists, writers, musicians, artists, technologists, and culture watchdogs, but rather people who span multiple classifications. That's what makes these interviewees really fascinating.

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Jan 15, 2009
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lots of fascinating (and bite-sized) interviews with the technorati class. since many of these come from the turn of the century, the collection is becoming more and more a part of the historical record rather than prognostications about the future.
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