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Episode 2310: Why Progressives must become "Yes People" on Technology
In this week’s That Was The Week round up of tech news, Andrew and Keith Teare discuss the need for progressives to become what Keith calls “yes peop…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2309: Michal Kosinski on the corrosive impact of social media on democracy and freedom
The Stanford Business School professor Michal Kosinski has spent his career warning about the corrosive impact of technology, and particularly social…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2308: Kenneth Cukier mourns the biliousness of our Big Data age
Few people have a better perch to observe technological change than Kenneth Cukier, deputy executive editor at The Economist and co-author of the bes…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2307: Ece Temelkuran on why she still retains faith in the future
One person I didn’t expect to see at DLD is the feted Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran. Not exactly a regular on the tech circuit, Temelkuran is best kn…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2306: Albert Wenger on how to save the Internet, Capitalism and the Planet
We are back in Munich at the DLD Conference, Europe’s foremost tech gathering. DLD is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and, to mark this oc…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2305: Kurt Gray explains why we fight about morality and politics
Published on the eve of you-know-who’s second inauguration, Kurt Gray’s new book Outraged focuses on why Americans are so divided and how they might …
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2304: Lisa Genova on the connection between bipolar disorder and standup comedy
A new book by the acclaimed neuroscientist Lisa Genova is always a big event. Genova, best known for her best-selling 2007 novel, Still Alice, has a…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2303: Isaac Stanley-Becker on a Europe without Borders
The world is shutting its borders to immigrants. Yesterday, we featured a conversation with Laurie Trautman who dates the Covid crisis of 2020 as the…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2302: Laurie Trautman on the Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders
From MAGA and the UK’s Reform Party to the German AfD, aggressively nationalist borders controls are back in political fashion. According to Laurie T…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2301: Nicholas Carr on how the Arc of Innovation Bends Towards Decadence
Nicholas Carr has been amongst the most persistently prescient observers of the digital revolution over the last quarter century. Take, for example,…
1 year, 9 months ago