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Episode 112: Mark Johnson on Watching Big Brother
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Live facial recognition! “Legal but harmful” speech! Spycoin!
In this …
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 111: Professor George Church on Genetics and DNA Technology
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De-ageing in dogs! Genetic scanning in dating apps! The Singularity…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 110: Andy Agathangelou on Fixing the Financial System
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In this episode, I sit down in the studio with Andy Agathangelou, the f…
2 years ago
Episode 109: Emily Finley on Undemocratic Democracy and the Seeds of Modern Tyranny
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I’m joined in this episode by Emily Finley, author of The Ideology of D…
2 years ago
Episode 108: Beatriz Busaniche on Digital Rights and Surveillance in Argentina
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All eyes on Argentina in this episode, as I’m joined by Beatriz Busaniche, an …
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 107: Sergei Loznitsa on Totalitarianism and Truth
Sergei Loznitsa is an award-winning director of feature films and documentaries, a Ukrainian born in the Soviet Union, and a compassionate interrogat…
2 years, 1 month ago
This Is How We Do It: AI Found Me A Wife (Valentine's Day Special)
Allow me to introduce This Is How We Do It, our new occasional sidebar exploring love in the age of dystopia.
Aleksandr, a tech-savvy young man from R…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 106: Jonathan M. Katz on Substack's 'Nazi Problem', Free Speech, and Modern Journalism
Substack has been in the news recently, due to accusations of and/or objections to extreme/racist/Nazi writers who have newsletters on the platform, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 105: Tim Boucher on the Fever Dream of the AI Mind
Can AI imagine itself?
Is an organic life possible in a machine world?
Do you want a computer chip in your brain?
Tim Boucher is the author of the AI Lo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 104: Elle Griffin on Faith, Hope, and Clarity
Can Substack survive mainstream media pearl-clutching?
Do we dare to dream of utopia?
Was the Virgin Mary really a virgin?
These are just some of the …
2 years, 2 months ago