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Back to SearchRoman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor
Human beings have an astonishing evolutionary gift: agile imaginations that can shift in an instant from thinking on a scale of seconds to a scale of…
5 years, 5 months ago
Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism
Responding to climate change by building hard infrastructures and favoring high-tech homogenous design, we are ignoring millennia-old knowledge of ho…
5 years, 6 months ago
Scott Kildall: Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time
What place is there for art in the 21st century world of technology, business, and science? Everywhere. Award-winning cross-disciplinary artist and c…
5 years, 7 months ago
Genevieve Bell: The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI
>"I have always felt I have an obligation to build the future I want to see. >We know that AI-powered cyber-physical systems (CPS) will scale in soci…
5 years, 8 months ago
Craig Childs: Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America
Craig Childs chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the f…
5 years, 8 months ago
Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet
Throughout Peter Calthorpe's decade-spanning career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he has developed and practiced the key principles of…
5 years, 8 months ago
Lonny J Avi Brooks: When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures
"As a forecaster and Afrofuturist who imagines alternative futures from a Black Diaspora perspective, I think about long-term signals that will shape…
5 years, 9 months ago
Kim Stanley Robinson: Adapting to Sea Level Rise: The Science of <em>New York 2140</em>
Legendary science fiction author [Kim Stanley Robinson](http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/) returns to The Interval to discuss his just released nov…
5 years, 9 months ago
Brian Fisher: Edible Insects
At the intersection of climate change, biodiversity loss, and food scarcity lies an unexpected and abundant resource: insects. [Brian Fisher](https:/…
5 years, 9 months ago
Annalee Newitz: Science Needs Fiction
Science fiction does more than predict future inventions. Stories are a testbed for exploring the unexpected ways people could incorporate technology…
5 years, 9 months ago