Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWill Hearst & Chris Anderson: The Long Time Tail
### The power law is the shape of our age You know something is up when an audience member is taking cell phone photos of the presenter's slides for …
19 years, 11 months ago
Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
### Community-built content rules Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embra…
20 years ago
Kevin Kelly: The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
### Recursion drives science The co-founding editor of “Wired” magazine and author of _Out of Control_ is working on a new book on “what technology w…
20 years, 1 month ago
Stephen Lansing: Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
### Hidden order in the Balinese "religion of water" With lucid exposition and gorgeous graphics, anthropologist Stephen Lansing exposed the hidden s…
20 years, 2 months ago
Ralph Cavanagh & Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
### Climate change and nuclear prospects Given the power to decide who would go first-- anti-nuke Ralph Cavanagh from Natural Resources Defense Couns…
20 years, 3 months ago
Sam Harris: The View from the End of the World
### On necessary heresy With gentle demeanor and tight argument, Sam Harris carried an overflow audience into the core of one of the crucial issues o…
20 years, 4 months ago
Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories
### Categories go nova It is fortunate that the leading thinker in "social software" is one of the best speakers in the high-tech world, a hot ticket…
20 years, 5 months ago
George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, & Esther Dyson: The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead
### Finessing the future Instead of one podium there were four chairs on the stage of Wednesday's seminar. In three seats, three Dysons: Esther, Geor…
20 years, 6 months ago
Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law
### Escape velocity Attempts to think long term, Ray Kurzweil began, keep making the mistake of imagining that the pace of the future is like the pac…
20 years, 7 months ago
Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future
### The culminating human right What does it take to change human habits of cruelty (such as slavery, genocide) and humiliation (racism, sexism)? Wha…
20 years, 8 months ago