Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLarry Brilliant: Sometimes Brilliant: in Conversation with Stewart Brand
After sitting at the feet of Martin Luther King at the University of Michigan in 1962, Larry Brilliant was swept up into the civil rights movement, m…
5 years, 10 months ago
Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Dr. Laurance Doyle is an astrophysicist and principal investigator at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) with expertise in diverse subje…
5 years, 10 months ago
Rick Doblin: Transformational Psychedelics
Humans have consumed psychedelics for at least the last 10,000 years. The outlawing of psychedelics in most of the world in the 20th century didn’t s…
5 years, 10 months ago
D. Fox Harrell: Coding Ourselves/Coding Others
Through building and analyzing systems, [D. Fox Harrell](http://foxharrell.com)'s research investigates how the computer can be used to express cultu…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jennifer Granick: Modern Surveillance: Why You Should Care and What You Can Do
The future of privacy begins with the current state of surveillance. The 21st century practices of US intelligence agencies push the technological, l…
5 years, 11 months ago
Renée DiResta: Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
Clandestine influence campaigns are rampant on social media. Whether pushing Russian agitprop or lies about vaccines, they can impact policy and make…
6 years ago
Michael Mikel: The Five Ages of Burning Man
Burning Man co-founder Michael Mikel (aka [ Danger Ranger](https://twitter.com/danger_ranger)), who serves as Director of Advanced Social Systems for…
6 years, 1 month ago
Robert McIntyre: Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading
Is it possible to preserve and read memories after someone has died? Robert McIntyre thinks it is, and that the technology is closer than most people…
6 years, 1 month ago
Eric Ries: Long-Term Stock Exchange
Companies that operate with a long-term mindset tend to outperform their peers over time. But the pressure to achieve short-term quarterly gains ofte…
6 years, 1 month ago
Bruce Sterling: How to Be Futuristic
The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened. The present moment vanishes before …
6 years, 2 months ago