Hackers On Planet Earth

Tell Stories, Save the World: How Hackers Are Basically Shakespeare

Kestral Gaian

This talk explores the hidden power of narrative in art, technology, and hacker culture. Drawing on everything from representation and role models to UX and science fiction, Kestral Gaian argues that anyone building any technology is already basically Shakespeare.

Saturday 1600 Gramercy Park Suite

Kestral Gaian is a writer of fiction, theatre, and poetry, whose work explores systems, survival, and the strange beauty of being human. Having spent years working in technology before leaving corporate life behind, Kestral’s stories often ask what it means to stay human in systems that seem to forget what that means.