The Ideaspace

In the final episode of the Ideaspace's first season, digital artist Rafaël Rozendaal talks about being an early star of the NFT world, producing code-based work, and how to cultivate artist time.

Author Eric Wargo on dreams, premonitions, and the long self

May 14th, 2021 1h 52m

Eric Wargo, author of "Time Loops" and "Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self," shares a mind-blowing hypothesis about dreams, consciousness, and the fundamental structure of our lives.

Roundtable: What gets measured and what doesn't get measured

May 7th, 2021 1h 42m

PANEL:Ashley Amaya (Senior survey methodologist at Pew Research Center)Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D. (Sociologist and Founder at Epic Teams)Esther Dyson (Tech journalist, investor, and Founder of Wellville) Morgan X’agatkeen Howard (Tlingit nation, Boa

Extinction Rebellion cofounder Clare Farrell on moving from hope to action

Apr 21st, 2021 1h 24m

Clare Farrell is cofounder of Extinction Rebellion. In a fascinating conversation, Clare discusses the group’s strategy, getting arrested, and why it’s time to move from hope to action.

Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher on what gets measured

Apr 14th, 2021 1h 37m

Jeff Hammerbacher is a scientist, software developer, cofounder of Cloudera and Related Sciences, and the founding manager of the Facebook Data team. In this conversation, his first public interview in years, Jeff discusses Facebook, data scien

Artist Hank Willis Thomas on playing infinite games

Apr 6th, 2021 56m 27s

A reflective, sensitive, and strikingly honest conversation with artist Hank Willis Thomas about his work, the impossibility of defining Black male identity, and how to operate as an infinite player inside a finite game

The blessing and the curse

Mar 31st, 2021 22m 33s

Why we find it hard to be our real selves online, and why we've gone into Dark Forests of the internet to escape.

Professor Mariana Mazzucato on how to create value

Mar 23rd, 2021 1h 9m

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, and the author of Mission Economy, The Entrepreneurial State, and The Value of Everything. She joins the Ideaspace to disc

Doughnut Economics author Kate Raworth on the century of nature's metrics

Mar 16th, 2021 1h 9m

Author David Wallace Wells on the new economics of the climate

Mar 8th, 2021 1h 27m

David Wallace Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, talks about where we are and where we're heading, why our worst fears won't come true, and the new economics of the climate.

Venture Capitalist Albert Wenger on fighting the climate crisis

Feb 19th, 2021 31m 55s

Earlier this year the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures announced a new $162 million fund to invest in “companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis." Albert Wenger is the Managing Partner lead

Defining a new us with Heather McGhee

Feb 13th, 2021 58m 26s

The Sum of Us author and economic and social policy expert Heather McGhee talks about the economic costs of racism and why this is the moment to turn away from zero-sum thinking.“As this fast food worker named Bridget told me, as long as we'r

Roundtable: What to measure and what not to measure

Feb 5th, 2021 1h 25m

The panel:Esther Dyson: journalist, tech investor, and the Executive Founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project devoted to helping communities sustain health for the long termKay Makishi: entrepreneur, advisor, and mentor who serves as Principal

Democratic Data with Salome Viljoen

Jan 28th, 2021 52m 33s

Yancey is joined by Salome Viljoen, a legal scholar, to explore her paper on a new theory called Democratic Data. "The positive conditions of freedom [are] going to require data infrastructure. The bet that I’m making is that people are down to