Hardware by Richard Staley

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The film is about an artist who collects a street trash and makes sculptures out of it. Her boy friend, sca, scavenges from wrecked military vehicles and robots and brings her the parts. It touches upon this notion that as technology becomes commoditized, the bits and pieces of it are relegated to a like, tradable trash like,. There's enough of it around that you can strip it offofthe machines, or it's extraneous, and sell it for money.

Given the technology's transformative potential, there is a surprising dearth of quality Science Fiction written about autonomous vehicles. Into that breach steps Patrick McGinty, whose upcoming novel "Test Drive" explores important themes related to AVs as it follows the lives of three test drivers in a climate crisis-stricken Pittsburgh of the near future. McGinty joins the gang to discuss his excellent new fiction, discuss a wide variety of topics, and make the case for renaissance in AV-related SciFi.