Robert Jackson Bennett uses magic to make sense of how technology shapes our lives

In my latest column for Techdirt, I talk to Robert Jackson Bennett about the political consequences of technology, the power of imagination, and his critically-acclaimed new novel, Foundryside:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181106/17231941000/robert-jackson-bennett-uses-magic-to-make-sense-how-technology-shapes-our-lives.shtml

Robert and I were on a panel together last month at New York Comic Con and I featured Foundryside in this edition of my reading recommendations newsletter.

Complement with Polygon on the political simulation game I co-designedAnnalee Newitz on science fiction and capitalism, and Ars Technica on the future extrapolated in Borderless.

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