Idea Machines podcast returns with Ada Palmer on building the future and sci-fi
Ben_Reinhardt · x · 2026-09-25
Ben Reinhardt announces the Idea Machines Podcast is back after a long hiatus, featuring historian and sci-fi author Ada Palmer on building the future, writing fiction, and a mega-spoiler discussion of the Terra Ignota series. He adds that most interviews focus on her Renaissance history work, but her ideas about the future influenced him most, and links a transcript.
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