Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNassim Nicholas Taleb: The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
### Dispatches from Extremistan A "black swan," Taleb explained, is an event which is 1) Hard to predict; 2) Highly consequential; 3) Wrongly retro-p…
18 years, 2 months ago
Paul Saffo: Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting
### Rules of Forecasting Reflecting on his 25 years as a forecaster, Paul Saffo pointed out that a forecaster's job is not to predict outcomes, but t…
18 years, 3 months ago
Joline Blais & Jon Ippolito: At the Edge of Art
### Artibodies Art, like the antibodies in our immune system, creates alien forces in service of the whole. It anticipates threats and models them. I…
18 years, 4 months ago
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times
### Principles against panic "Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any new enterprise, Kanter explained, encounters roadblocks. As the obs…
18 years, 5 months ago
Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
### Mapping Life "All life is imperfectly transmitted code," Enriquez began, "and it is promiscuous." Thus discoveries like the one last month of an …
18 years, 6 months ago
Rip Anderson & Gwyneth Cravens: Power to Save the World
### Nuclear Footprint In the early 1980s Gwyneth Cravens was one of the protesters against the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island, and also …
18 years, 7 months ago
Alex Wright: Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages
### A Series of Information Explosions As usual, microbes led the way. Bacteria have swarmed in intense networks for 3.5 billion years. Then a hierar…
18 years, 8 months ago
Francis Fukuyama: 'The End of History' Revisited
### Democracy versus Culture Francis Fukuyama began by describing the four most significant challenges to the thesis in his famed 1992 book,_[The End…
18 years, 10 months ago
Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
### Humanity's immune system The title of Paul Hawken's talk, "The New Great Transformation," has two referents, he explained. Economist Karl Polanyi…
18 years, 10 months ago
Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom
### Consilience defeats miasma Steven Johnson began his long zoom survey with the "prior art" of Joyce's Stephen Daedalus locating himself in himself…
18 years, 11 months ago