Geeks Unite! Annalee Newitz is a must-see at Trinity University Wednesday night.
io9 Editor-in-Chief, journalist, author, and hacker Annalee Newitz will visit San Antonio’s Trinity University as part of the school’s “Reality Hackers” lecture series, this Wednesday, March 10 at 7pm in the Fiesta Room. Her talk is entitled “Curse of the Meatsack: Biohacking, Immortality, and Science Fiction.”
Newitz’s work has been published in Popular Science, The Believer, New Scientist, Wired Magazine, and Wall Street Journal. She is a fellow-traveler of the emerging biopunk movement who argues passionately on behalf of open-sourced genomic databases. She co-edited (along with io9′s Charlie Jane Anders) the anthology She’s Such A Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff, a “hopeful book that looks forward to the day when women will invent molecular motors, design the next ultra-tiny supercomputer, and run the government.”
