{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"409: Julian Bleecker","description":"Julian Bleecker, Ph.D., is an accomplished engineer and author with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, an MSEng from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz. He founded Near Future Laboratory in 2005 and OMATA, a one-person innovative hardware product design studio, in 2014, which he sold in 2022. Julian has written&amp;nbsp;It\u2019s Time To Imagine Harder&amp;nbsp;and co-authored&amp;nbsp;The Manual of Design Fiction. He also wrote the influential essay,&amp;nbsp;Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction. His engineering expertise and innovative work in Design Fiction have significantly shaped creative practices worldwide. Near Future Laboratory Podcast LinkedIn Instagram TOOLS: 0:00 \u2013 Intro 0:34 \u2013&amp;nbsp;Baofeng 5RM Multi-Band Ham Radio 7:43 \u2013&amp;nbsp;Make Playing Cards 17:08 \u2013&amp;nbsp;Sendy.co&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Instructions 24:23 \u2013&amp;nbsp;Astro&amp;nbsp;+&amp;nbsp;Netlify Watch on YouTube &amp;nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit: https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/julian-bleecker-engineer-and-author\/ To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form: https:\/\/forms.gle\/qc496XB6bGbrAEKK7 ","author_name":"Cool Tools","author_url":"http:\/\/cool-tools.org\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33409432\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/179481497"}