Annalee Newitz

If outsider perspectives made 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Dark Knight' into fantastic franchises, imagine what would happen if you brought in the perspectives of women and people of color. ”

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world. ”

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. ”

Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground. ”

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. ”