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Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
Episode 515
We've been financing good writing with bad advertising -- and "attention monsters" (to quote Craig Mod) for way too long. So what happens when the te…
6 years, 3 months ago
What's Next for the Internet?
Episode 514
How can we evolve the web for a better future? Has the web become a mature platform — or are we still in the early days of knowing what it can do and…
6 years, 3 months ago
Controlling AI
Episode 513
AI can do a lot of specific tasks as well as, or even better than, humans can — for example, it can more accurately classify images, more efficiently…
6 years, 3 months ago
Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health
Episode 512
The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a …
6 years, 3 months ago
On Pharma Trends and Big Company Innovation
Episode 511
How does the world’s largest producer of medicines in terms of volume balance the science and the business of innovation? How does an enterprise at s…
6 years, 3 months ago
Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?
Episode 510
This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospec…
6 years, 3 months ago
Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
Episode 509
Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives -- and it's just …
6 years, 4 months ago
What to Know about CFIUS
Episode 508
When innovation and capital go global, so do restrictions on trade, foreign investment, and more. Over the past couple years, U.S. policymakers have …
6 years, 4 months ago
Are ISAs the Solution to Student Debt?
Episode 507
A bold proposal: You go to college for free, then pay back the school after graduation—but only if you get a job in your field of study and make a hi…
6 years, 4 months ago
Shonda Rhimes on How to Create Stories (and Products) People Want
Episode 506
Hollywood and Silicon Valley seem so different, but are more alike than we think. What challenges do tech startup founders and other creative founder…
6 years, 4 months ago