In this episode, host Brian Solis interviews Brenda Cooper, CIO for the city of Kirkland, Washington, about the many ways her science fiction writing parallels and even influences the nature of the digital transformation of her home city.

Cooper points out that notoriously slow-moving and bureaucratic cities, must open themselves to a fast-arriving future filled with smart technologies, and balance it against the fear and personal data privacy issues that naturally go along with such change.