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Mary DeMarle speaks with Nora Young about the challenges of writing fiction in a deeply interactive medium.

Aaron Brindle on mapping the Canadian Arctic. Jerry Brotton on his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps. Jon Kalish on scout troops for the digital age. Michelle Parise in defense of paper maps. Andrew Turner on the future of maps.

Jerry Brotton speaks with Nora Young about his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps

Nora Young speaks with Andrew Turner about the future of digital mapmaking. Andrew is CTO of the Esri Research and Development Center in Washington, D.C. where he's involved with open tools for mapmaking.

Shantanu Gupta on big, big data. Caitlin Fisher gives a tour of York U's Augmented Reality Lab. Bonnie Stewart on online babysitters. Diane Zorn on turning a philosophy course into a game. Elizabeth Lawley on the gameful design of university life.

Diane Zorn speaks with Nora Young about how she turned her course into a role playing game.

Nora Young speaks with Elizabeth Lawley. She's a professor of interactive games and media, and head of "Just Press Play" at the Rochester Institute of Technology. They talk about adding a "game layer" to education.

Hristo Bojinov on subconscious passwords. Ariel Garten on thought-controlled computing. Howard Rheingold on how to maximize your social capital. Henrik Moltke on QR-coded gravestones. Vivek Venkatesh on heavy metal forums as a model for online learning.

Vivek Venkatesh explains what online educators can learn from heavy metal forums.

Daniel Kammen on solutions for better power security. Ivan Owen on open-source design plans for prosthetic fingers. Hannu Toivonen on sleep musicalization. Dr. Diane Boivan on turning off tech for better sleep. Karmen Franinovic on sonic interaction desig

Nora speaks with Daniel Kammen, member of the UN's Sustainable Energy for All task force. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, we wanted to talk with him about access to power.

Nora Young speaks with thinker, technologist, and newly-minted author Robin Sloan about his debut novel.

Nora Young speaks with thinker, technologist, and newly-minted author Robin Sloan about his debut novel.

Denis Carmel and Bernard Lord on cell phone theft in Canada. Howard Rheingold on his new book "Net Smart". Chriz Miller on ride-sharing apps as hitch hiking 2.0. Michelle Parise asks the question how have you taken an online friendship, offline? And Steve

Nora speaks with Steven Johnson about his new book, Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age. He tells her he wanted the book to be "provocatively utopian", and argues the peer-to-peer structure of the internet can be applied to a new poli