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Adam Thierer on Permissionless Innovation

May 13th, 2014 35m 55s

Adam Thierer, senior research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, discusses his latest book Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom. Thie

Patrick Byrne on online retailers accepting Bitcoin

Apr 22nd, 2014 40m 31s

Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, discusses how Overstock.com became one of the first online retail stores to accept Bitcoin. Byrne provides insight into how Bitcoin lowers transaction costs, making it beneficial to both retailers and consu

Jeff Garzik on Bitcoin development

Mar 25th, 2014 52m 22s

Jeff Garzik, senior software engineer at Bitpay and one of Bitcoin’s core developers, discusses the future of Bitcoin. Garzik talks with us about what it’s like to be a developer for Bitcoin; how to make the cryptocurrency more secure; what Bi

Shane Greenstein on bias in Wikipedia articles

Mar 11th, 2014 32m 55s

Shane Greenstein, Kellogg Chair in Information Technology at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, discusses his recent paper, Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia, coauthored by Harvard assistant pro

Ladar Levison on Lavabit

Feb 4th, 2014

Ladar Levison, founder of encrypted email service Lavabit, discusses recent government action that led him to shut down his firm. When it was suspected that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used Lavabit’s email service, the FBI issued a Nation

Gina Keating on netflix

May 21st, 2013 44m 15s

Gina Keating, author of Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs, discusses the startup of Netflix and their competition with Blockbuster.Keating begins with the history of the company and their innovative improvements to the movie

Timothy Ravich on drones

May 14th, 2013 50m 59s

Timothy Ravich, a board certified aviation lawyer in private practice and an adjunct professor of law at the Florida International University School of Law and the University of Miami School of Law, discusses the future of unmanned aerial syst

W. Patrick McCray on visioneers

May 7th, 2013 35m 19s

W. Patrick McCray, author of The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future, tells the story of these modern utopians who predicted that their technologies could transform socie

Alex Tabarrok on innovation

Apr 30th, 2013 38m 15s

Alex Tabarrok, author of the ebook Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast discusses America’s declining growth rate in total factor productivity, what this means for the future of innovation, and w

Paul Heald on the public domain

Apr 23rd, 2013 33m 6s

Paul J. Heald, professor of law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, discusses his new paper “Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain? Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension.” The international debate over copy

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