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Episode 2324: Why we need some Sputnik Thinking on Wealth Redistribution in our AI Age
A week is certainly a long time in tech. On last week’s That Was the Week roundup, Keith Teare and I were asking if Trump’s America was a tech oligar…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2223: Sophia Rosenfeld asks if our age of choice might also be an age of tyranny
In an era where even toothpaste shopping can trigger an existential crisis, intellectual historian Sophia Rosenfeld explore how we became both impris…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2322: Andrew Lipstein on how to reinvent American masculinity
According to Andrew Lipstein, here are 3 questions at the heart of his acclaimed new novel Something Rotten: a) What do we want masculinity to look l…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2321: Michael Ignatieff on why he's still (half) in love with the United States
From Dylan to democracy, from Bobby Kennedy to Putin's Russia - this wide-ranging conversation with Michael Ignatieff riffs off “The Adults in the Ro…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2320: Nicholas Carr on how technologies of connection are tearing us apart
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nicholas Carr is always a major event. And today’s release of SUPERBLOOM: How Technologies of Connection Te…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2319: Christopher DiCarlo on AI as the latest chapter in our long history of building an all-knowing God
Is AI the latest chapter in our long history of creating an all-knowing God? AI ethicist Christopher DiCarlo certainly suspects it is. In his new boo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalism
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s another anti tech book. In Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, digital activist Mike Pepi argues that…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2317: Is Trump's America now an Oligarchy?
In Keith Teare’s That Was the Week newsletter for this week, he categorically asserts that there is no oligarchy in Trump’s America. Instead there ar…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2316: Agnes Callard on how to learn from Socrates about questioning everything
So what, exactly, is a philosophical life? According the University of Chicago philosopher Agnes Callard, author of the much acclaimed new book Open …
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2315: Andrew McAfee finds reasons to be cheerful about the next 20 years of our tech century
This is the last and amongst the liveliest of my interviews at Munich’s DLD Conference this year. An old friend who has appeared on KEEN ON several t…
1 year, 8 months ago