Madeline Ashby is a freelance futurist and author of Glass Houses, a near-future sci-fi thriller about creepy tech, creepier tech bros, and the woman who dares challenge both. The first Unfrozen interview with a novelist takes us on a journey to desert islands, bland design-hotel furniture, evil architecture tropes, and much more.


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Intro/Outro: "I am not a woman, I am a god," by Halsey


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Show Notes:


- Previous work:




- Strategic Foresight and Innovation Program - OCAD University


- The Old Dark House, 1932


- Institute for the Future - Age of Networked Matter


- Haunted Objects, Greg and Dana Newkirk


- Major inspo: Michael Mann movies



- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex


- David Cronenberg's Brutalist Toronto


- Toshiya Ueno and "Cultural Odorlessness"


- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross collaboration on Halsey's 2021 album "If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power."


- The tendency of AI to generate from the baseline average of all things on the internet - usually porn, maybe hentai


- "Domestic Violence," Madeline Ashby, Slate, 2018


- Samantha Bee - "Excuse Me, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Canada?"


- Network states


- Augmented Cities, Cornell Tech


- The decline of dating apps and replacement by AI bot boyfriends and girlfriends / The fracking of human consciousness


- DARVO


- Movie version would almost certainly star Kristen Bell or Kristen Stewart








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