Jon Lebkowsky

Originally published at rewired.com It’s a hassle to edge past 50 and realize that the dreams pumped into your head by "the dreamer fthp" (see Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, where SF authors form a kind of dreamer caste as seen by elephant-b…

I should probably be cranking out alerts about the dangerous instabilities within the human component of our tiny planet right now, but others are doing that pretty effectively.

“The map is not the territory…” ~ Alfred Korzybski Recently driving my 2025 Elantra Hybrid to a meeting with an author friend who’s in town for research, I used Google Maps to find the most efficient route through morning traffic.

New Orleans is one of the most culturally and racially mixed cities in the South, with a majority Black population, a growing Hispanic community, and deep historical roots in African, French, Spanish, and Caribbean cultures — all of which continue to shape

Originally published in the last issue of Whole Earth Magazine (aka Whole Earth Review), Spring 2003 History In the sixties and early seventies my g-g-generation caught fire with concern for the environment; we added it to our charm bracelet of concerns w…

A talk presented by Jon Lebkowsky and Kevin Welch at ACTLab 2019.

Originally published in 21C, 1997 The global Internet’s awash with email lists, chats, and online conferences for discussion of governance and what goes with it: the politics of issues and of personalities, trad partisan thrashes, visionary thrusts (e.g.

I created the list below for the State of the World 2018 conversation (which is something I do every year with Bruce Sterling). 2017 was a nervous year of overwrought blustery political cultures, a year of normalized psychosis amplified by media distortio…

This is my RSVP for IndieWebCamp Austin, and I hope you’ll join me there!

We were watching the excellent new Amazon series, The Marvelous Mrs.

[I posted this on Facebook, seems it struck a nerve based on the likes and responses.

Here’s a list of trends I see going into 2015, created for this year’s “State of the World” conversation.

In 2013, The New Yorker published a revealing, troubling piece called “Taken,” an in-depth investigation into the practice of civil asset forfeiture, where American citizens can have their property (cash, cars, homes) confiscated by police, even though th…

Saw this at bOING bOING (via Cory Doctorow) and ported it over here: In comments on the video at Youtube, someone posted this Bukowski quote: “I think my writing is really pretty fucking powerful stuff but I think after I’m dead and safe, they’re going to…