Madeline Ashby is a freelance futurist and author of Glass Houses, a near-future sci-fi thriller about creepy tech, creepier tech bros, and the woman who dares challenge both. The first Unfrozen interview with a novelist takes us on a journey to desert islands, bland design-hotel furniture, evil architecture tropes, and much more.
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Intro/Outro: "I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
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Show Notes:
- Previous work:
- - The Machine Dynasty series
- Strategic Foresight and Innovation Program - OCAD University
- The Old Dark House, 1932
- Institute for the Future - Age of Networked Matter
- Haunted Objects, Greg and Dana Newkirk
- Major inspo: Michael Mann movies
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- David Cronenberg's Brutalist Toronto
- Toshiya Ueno and "Cultural Odorlessness"
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross collaboration on Halsey's 2021 album "If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power."
- The tendency of AI to generate from the baseline average of all things on the internet - usually porn, maybe hentai
- "Domestic Violence," Madeline Ashby, Slate, 2018
- Samantha Bee - "Excuse Me, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Canada?"
- Augmented Cities, Cornell Tech
- The decline of dating apps and replacement by AI bot boyfriends and girlfriends / The fracking of human consciousness
- DARVO
- Movie version would almost certainly star Kristen Bell or Kristen Stewart
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