Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends. – Annalee Newitz
I think a lot of us responded intensely to ‘True Detective’ because it was so incredibly earnest. That’s what made it heartbreaking and involving. – Annalee Newitz
When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world – many of them programmers – wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born. – Annalee Newitz
‘Interstellar’ is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan’s last original film, ‘Inception’. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions. – Annalee Newitz
There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet’s sixth mass extinction. It’s hard to know for sure if you’re in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a – usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years. – Annalee Newitz
Your fragile mind can’t have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known ‘Scorpion’. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium. – Annalee Newitz
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements. – Annalee Newitz
With technology tracking us everywhere we go, ‘cosplay’ might become our best defense against surveillance. – Annalee Newitz
Once you’ve worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns. – Annalee Newitz
Watching ‘Interstellar’ is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other. – Annalee Newitz
To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media. – Annalee Newitz
There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it’s clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone. – Annalee Newitz
Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic. – Annalee Newitz
Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores. – Annalee Newitz
io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company’s other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered. – Annalee Newitz
You’ve probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine ‘Omni’ combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don’t know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all. – Annalee Newitz
At last we’ve seen the first installment of Joss Whedon’s new web series, ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,’ and it’s sweeter than we’d ever imagined. – Annalee Newitz