Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrans Lanting: Life's Journey Through Time
### The deep past in the remote present It began on a New Jersey beach. Frans Lanting was photographing horseshoe crabs for a story about how they ar…
19 years ago
Brian Fagan: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change
### Catastrophic drought is coming back There are two kinds of historians, Brian Fagan says, parachutists and truffle hunters. Parachutists command a…
19 years, 1 month ago
Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
### Non-Singularity scenarios Vinge began by declaring that he still believes that a Singularity event in the next few decades is the most likely out…
19 years, 2 months ago
Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
### Ignore confident forecasters "What is it about politics that makes people so dumb?" From his perspective as a psychology researcher, Philip Tetlo…
19 years, 3 months ago
Philip Rosedale: 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
### 2nd Life takes off What is real life coming to owe digital life? After a couple years in the flat part of exponential growth, the steep part is n…
19 years, 5 months ago
Larry Brilliant, Richard Rockefeller, & Katherine Fulton: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
### Philanthropic stamina 10,000 families in the US, Katherine Fulton reported, have assets of $100 million or more. That's up from 7,000 just a coup…
19 years, 5 months ago
John Baez: Zooming Out in Time
### Welcome to the Anthropocene The graphs we see these days, John Baez began, all look vertical-- carbon burning shooting up, CO2 in the air shootin…
19 years, 6 months ago
Orville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
### Giant contradictions “China is the most unresolved nation of consequence in the world,” Orville Schell began. It is defined by its massive contra…
19 years, 7 months ago
John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
### Only connect John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, is a senior communications consultant to the White Houses and Departments of Defense. His sub…
19 years, 9 months ago
Will Wright & Brian Eno: Playing with Time
### Generative play In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno gave an intense clinic on the joys and techniques of "generative" creation. Back in …
19 years, 10 months ago