Annalee Newitz Quotes

American - Journalist Born: 1969

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

Capitalism, Inequality, Economic, System

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

People, Amazing, World, Born, Late, Web

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

Change, Time, Character, People, I Am

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

Technology, Best, Become, Go, Us

A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth. Annalee Newitz

Education, Growth, Children, Women, More

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

Age, New, Seeing, Inheritance, Where

Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. Annalee Newitz

Leader, Great, Wolves, Guilt, Alien, Old

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent. Annalee Newitz

American, America, Immigrants, Crime

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm. Annalee Newitz

Doctor, Tracking, Convinced, Journalist

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

Future, History, Past, Mistakes, Results

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. Annalee Newitz

Hope, Perspective, Fall, Rise, Kind

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago. Annalee Newitz

People, Environmental, Energy, Down, Us

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe. Annalee Newitz

Change, Easy, Technological, Observe

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

Alone, Problems, Living, Comfort, Almost

In the 1920s and 30s, when Radio Shack was young, a much earlier generation of nerds swarmed into these tiny shops to talk excitedly about building radios and other transmission devices. You might say that Radio Shack helped define gadget culture for four generations, from radio whizzes up to smartphone dorks. Annalee Newitz

Culture, Generation, Building, You, Talk

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. Annalee Newitz

End, World, True, Will, End Of The World

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

Die, You, Know, Years, Evidence, Over

Humans have obviously contributed a great deal of carbon to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up. Annalee Newitz

Great, Up, Planet, Deal, Carbon, Humans

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops. Annalee Newitz

Great, Losing, Looking, Lose, Animals

Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Annalee Newitz

Year, Debate, Down, You, Alien, Race

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before. Annalee Newitz

Science, World, Universe, Promises, Seen

Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down. Annalee Newitz

Down, Years, Google, Two, Out, Feed

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet. Annalee Newitz

Today, Culture, People, Internet, Know

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

New, Last, Seen, First, Horrible, Web

I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres. Annalee Newitz

Home, Journey, Space, Back, Bubble

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

Science, Name, You, Know, Real, Inspired

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