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&nbsp;It’s Time To Imagine Harder&nbsp;and co-authored&nbsp;The Manual of Design Fiction. He also wrote the influential essay,&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.    TOOLS: 0:00 – Intro 0:34 –&nbsp; 7:43 –&nbsp; 17:08 –&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp; 24:23 –&nbsp;&nbsp;+&nbsp;  &nbsp; For show notes and transcript visit:  To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form:

409: Julian Bleecker

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Our guest this week is Daniel Schaefer. Daniel is the kind of person who often finds himself in too many interesting situations to choose just a few to throw in a bio, but through his photography, his writing, and the various nonsense in his pockets, you may be able to glean just a little bit about what he brings to the table. For show notes: https://kk.org/cooltools/daniel-schaefer-photographer/

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252: Daniel Schaefer

In each episode of the Cool Tools Show, Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder talk to a guest about some of his or her favorite uncommon and uncommonly good tools they think others should know about. 

409: Julian Bleecker

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