Come join David White for the beginning of a salon series dedicated to exploring the themes, ideas, and world-building of science fiction. We will begin by looking at several Asimov short stories and establishing a general scaffolding for analyzing worlds very different from our own. Science fiction serves as an important culture touchstone and imaginative…
Join us for this special episode of our History of Love series where we'll build on the history of love to explore the future of love. To conclude our seven-month series which started with prehistoric dating, we will build upon texts by some of our favourite contemporary thinkers – Amia Srinivasan, Moira Weigel, Ross Douthat,…
Do you remember library card catalogs? What if our entire world were represented in library card catalogs? Join librarian Jay L. Colbert to discuss the role metadata plays in our daily lives, and the power it gives to people, institutions, and systems. "Metadata is data about data." ...sure. "Metadata is the sum total of what…
Join legendary tech investor Cyan Banister and Interintellect founder Anna Gát for an intimate story-sharing SuperSalon about resilience, individualism, and finding success on one's own terms. Few thinkers in the world…
Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh dream big, but also do. Replit’s mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. This power couple are on their way to make the infinite excursion of their imagination, knowledge, and courage into a reality in this tiny, finite, concrete timeline of ours. Join Violeta Kristóf in this SuperSalon…
Join Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a special Interintellect book club discussion to celebrate the Stripe Press reprint of Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush. Instrumental to the…
You know the saying "never judge a book by its cover?" What would happen if we ignored that advice? Join librarian Jay L. Colbert in a discussion about our aesthetic…
Come join David White for the next installment of a salon series dedicated to exploring the themes, ideas, and world-building of science fiction. We will be exploring the world of Dune and discussing…
Join Josh Pollock, Interintellect's engineering team lead, for a members-only Salon for a preview of the next evolution of Interintellect.com. For the last several months, the Interintellect team has been working on a new version of our platform. We are getting close to launching the new site. Attendees will be able to try out the new…
Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. This is the 7th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…
Come join David White for the next installment of a salon series dedicated to exploring the themes, ideas, and world-building of science fiction. We will be exploring the world of Oryx and Crake and discussing the consequences of a bioengineering disaster, socioeconomic effects of widespread genetic engineering, and how the tension between humanities and technology grow as scientific…
Political polarisation, Substack, Netflix, TikTok - the modern world seems to conspire against the introspective reading of long fictional texts. Anna Gát looks at the chances of survival for the novel in the 21st century. A seminal experience of my adolescence: withdrawing and curling up with a book, re-emerging days later shaken, fulfilled, accomplished, a…
