I’ve begun a podcast of my story Human Readable, originally published in 2005’s Future Washington anthology. It’s the tale of a world that’s been upended by hyper-efficient planning algorithms based on ant-colony optimizations, so that Los Angeles has the best traffic in the world. However, when these networks crash, they really crash — cars, surfboards, and many other common conveyances end up catastrophically failing, with concomitant loss of life. It’s long story, so it’ll come in 7 or 8 installments — I’ll post a couple per week until they run out. Hope you enjoy them!