Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWill AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
Episode 2959
Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replac…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Episode 2957
It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet." But you a…
4 weeks ago
Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with Alistair Moffat (Birlinn, 2026)
Episode 2956
Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men …
4 weeks ago
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Episode 2958
How Do AI & Innovation Cohabitate?
Bryan Cassady is an author, professor, and all-around innovator, whether in book form or in classrooms, real and …
4 weeks ago
How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
Episode 2955
Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total catastrophe i…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
Episode 2954
Could humanity’s most powerful invention become a threat to its survival? In this episode of The Survival Curve, we examine the disturbing prospect b…
1 month ago
The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul
Episode 2953
Research Triangle Park in North Carolina (RTP) emerged under the unique circumstances of a poor Southern state that needed to find a way to offset th…
1 month ago
Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Episode 50
Increasingly, it seems like the corporate names that dominate headlines are much more diverse than they used to be. Samsung, TSMC, and SK Hynix. Alib…
1 month ago
Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 49
We are in a state of crisis. Democracy is under threat, authoritarian politics are on the rise, and digital media—once heralded as emancipatory techn…
1 month, 1 week ago
Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future Forward" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 48
Library Technical Services: Future Forward (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino looks at the future of technical services…
1 month, 1 week ago