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Podcast #109. “Juicy Ghost.”

June 25, 2019. “Juicy Ghost” is a fairly intense political SF story. For more on the story, and the full text, see my June 24 blog post, or check out my anthology Complete Stories. Press the arrow below to play “Juicy Ghost.” And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

“Juicy Ghost.” A Political SF Story.

This was a story I couldn’t stop myself from writing. I felt a need to take a stand. Not that I’m urging anyone to follow my character Curtis Winch’s example. But I definitely took satisfaction in crafting his tale. The writing and revising ran from January to June of 2019, which is a very long […]

Blockchain in Miami Beach

I was at a conference on cryptocurrency & blockchain in Miami Beach last month. I was the guest of the company IOHK, which is developing blockchain technology. Don’t worry if you don’t know what blockchain is, I barely know myself. One of the treats of going to the con was that my old friend Stephen […]

Painting & Publishing

I’ve been busy with various things the last few months. I ran a Kickstarter campaign for Million Mile Road Trip, did some promo for the Night Shade edition, gave a talk at a cryptocurrency conference in Miami Beach, wrote a story, and did a couple of paintings. Let’s start with the latest painting “Mexico” oil […]

Guanajuato, Part 2

Today I’ll post the rest of my photos from my March trip to Guanajuato in Mexico with Sylvia. I did the initial post on March 29, 2019. But first a word from our sponsor, that is, me. I made a fairly cool book trailer for my novel Million Mile Road Trip, which went into print […]

Podcast #108. Lifebox for Telepathy and Immortality

April 18, 2019. Talk at IOHK Summit conference in Miami Beach. 20 min. Lifebox, Natural Language, Telepathy, Immortality. Slides draft and an audio link on Rudy’s Blog at http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2019/0... Press arrow below to play here. Or Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

Podcast #107. Cyberpunk Use Cases.

April 18, 2019. Talk at the IOHK Summit blockchain conference in Miami Beach. 20 min. Topics: Cyberpunk, personal web cralwers, telepathy. The slides slides and a rough draft of the talk can be viewed as a post on Rudy’s Blog at http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2019/0... Press the arrow below to play the audio of “Cyberpunk Use Cases.” And, […]

Podcast #106. Rucker & Wolfram on Computation, Reality, and the Mind

April 18, 2019. Conversation with Stephen Wolfram while at the IOHK blockchain conference in Miami Beach. Topics: AI, unpredictable computations, the nature of reality. Press the arrow below to play “Rucker & Wolfram on Computation, Reality, and the Mind.” And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

Talk on “Cyberpunk Use Cases”

I gave two presentations at the IOHK Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, April 18, 2019. IOHK is a crypto/blockchain company with the full name Input Output Hong Kong, although in fact they’re not currently based in Hong Kong. I gave a large audience a twnty minute talk, described in this post, and small audience a […]

“Cyberpunk Use Cases”

I’m posting drafts of two presentations to be delivered at the IOHK Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, April 18, 2019. 1.Talk: “Cyberpunk Use Cases” 2. Workshop: “Lifebox for Telepathy and Immortality” This is a draft of the first presentation by Rudy Rucker. CYBERPUNK USE CASES Where I’m From I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky during […]