Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future Audiobook (Free)

Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future, from some of today’s leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries that reignites the iconic and positive visions of the golden age group of science fiction.

In his 2011 article “Innovation Starvation,” Neal Stephenson argued that we-the society whose earlier scientists and engineers witnessed the airplane, the automobile, nuclear energy, the computer, and space exploration-must reignite our about Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future ambitions to think boldly and do Big Stuff. He also advanced the Hieroglyph Theory which illuminates the power of technology fiction to inspire the inventive creativity: “Good SF gives a plausible, completely thought-out picture of another reality where some kind of compelling innovation has taken place.”

In 2012, Az State University established the guts for Science as well as the Creativity to bring together writers, artists, and creative thinkers with scientists, technical engineers, and technologists to cultivate and expand on “moon shot ideas” that inspire the imagination and catalyze real-world innovations.

Today comes this remarkable anthology uniting twenty of today’s leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries-among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Carry, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson-to contribute functions of “techno-optimism” that problem us to dream and do Big Stuff. Interesting, mind-bending, provocative, and imaginative, Hieroglyph offers a forward-thinking method of the intersection of artwork and technology which has the power to improve our world.