Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEd Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade
### Imminent fusion power All the light we see from the sky, Moses pointed out, comes from fusion power burning hydrogen, the commonest element in th…
15 years, 10 months ago
Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization
### The anti-state economy Gilman described deviant globalization as "the unpleasant underside of transnational integration." There's nice tourism, a…
15 years, 11 months ago
David Eagleman: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
### Averting Collapse Civilizations always think they're immortal, Eagleman noted, but they nearly always perish, leaving "nothing but ruins and scat…
16 years, 1 month ago
Beth Noveck: Transparent Government
### Dot.Gov Noveck began with the example of patents, first devised in Renaissance Florence and Venice to protect techniques such as glass manufactur…
16 years, 1 month ago
Alan Weisman: World Without Us, World With Us
### Humanity's impact, nature's resilience Weisman's book, _The World Without Us_ , grew out of two questions, he said. One was, "How can I write a b…
16 years, 2 months ago
Alexander Rose, Brian Eno, & Stewart Brand: Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference
### Enduring Value In February 02010, [Brian Eno](../../../../people/board/prospect4/), [Stewart Brand](../../../../people/board/sb1/), and [Alexande…
16 years, 3 months ago
Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
### Native guidance What does it mean to be human and alive? The thousands of different cultures and languages on Earth have compellingly different a…
16 years, 3 months ago
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4
### Gas Stations, Not Flowers The fourth incarnation of _Lost Landscapes of San Francisco_ played to a sold out house at the Herbst Theater with the …
16 years, 4 months ago
Sander van der Leeuw: The Archaeology of Innovation
### History of Innovation The development of human mental ability can be tracked through the progressive crafting of stone tools, Van der Leeuw expla…
16 years, 5 months ago
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green
### Globalizing Green Brand built his case for rethinking environmental goals and methods on two major changes going on in the world. The one that mo…
16 years, 6 months ago