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Episode 2269: Michael Sayman looks forward to an AI age in which all our online interactions are with bots
While many of us fear a future in which all our online interactions are with algorithms, the young Florida based programming prodigy, Michael Sayman,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2268: David Rowell on how new technology is making us dislike new music
Yesterday, we featured a conversation with Jonathan Taplin about the dearth of high quality contemporary music and movies. The music writer, David Ro…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2267: Jonathan Taplin on the coming cultural renaissance in America
A few months ago, I interviewed David Leonhardt, author of Ours Was the Shining Future, about the death of the American dream which, he argued, can b…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2266: Mr Musk, Mr Sacks and Mr Andreessen go to Washington
On the week that the price of Bitcoin rose above $100,000 and Trump appointed David Sacks as his “AI and Crypto Czar”, has Silicon Valley finally suc…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2265: Jeff Jarvis on how to reclaim the internet from moguls, misanthropes and moral panics
Yesterday, we featured a conversation with Mozilla co-founder and Internet Hall of Famer, Mitchell Baker, one of the great champions of an open web. …
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2265: Internet Hall of Famer, Mitchell Baker, on the promise of an Open Web
Few people deserve their place in the Internet Hall of Fame than Mozilla Chairwoman Mitchell Baker. Since co-founding the Mozilla Project in the late…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2264: Robert Pearl demystifies the RFK Jr nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services
Few people are better at demystifying the byzantine complexities of the American healthcare system than the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente, Robert P…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2263: The Godmother of Silicon Valley on luck, love and fate
If Silicon Valley has an official matriarch, it might be the Palo Alto based educator and writer Esther Wojcicki. Popularly known as the “Godmother o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2262: Steve Blank on how to hack the 21st century
Steve Blank is one of Silicon Valley’s most persistent hackers. As the pioneer of the Lean Startup movement, Blank has changed how startups are built…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2261: Douglas Rushkoff on why AI is the first native app for the internet
If there’s a Marshall McLuhan for our digital age, then it might be the much published media theorist Douglas Rushoff. One of the founding evangelist…
1 year, 10 months ago