Annalee Newitz

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Evolution, climate change, and the construction of the physical universe down to its atoms are processes that we measure in millions or billions of years.

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.

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.

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.