Richard Powers has been writing books for nearly 40 years, and from the outset, in his homeland of America, has been ...

Richard Powers has long been fascinated by artificial intelligence. As far back as 1995, his novel “Galatea 2.2” reimagined the Pygmalion story through that lens, unfolding in a computer lab ...

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UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Richard Powers in Conversation with Pico Iyer, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23 at UCSB Campbell Hall. “Operating at the ...