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Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.
Facial recognition expert Clare Garvie explains how police are using (and abusing) this dangerous technology.
Josh Golin, Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a corporate culture of consumerism and surveillance that has ensnared our kids.
Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.
Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.
Father Jim Keenan, director of the Jesuit Institute at Boston College, discusses Pope Francis's views on environmentalism and social justice.
Jonathan Taplin, former music and film maven, tells what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators has done to the arts, journalism, and democracy.
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.
Neurologist Adam Gazzaley discusses how the brain's attentional system functions–or doesn't–when buffeted by digital distraction.
Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, chats with us about the moral minefield of genetic engineering.
In a wide-ranging conversation, philosopher Michael Zimmerman contextualizes our technological journey within the history of Western thought.
Author and cultural critic David Bosworth discusses America’s myth of individualism and our need for a less atomized culture.
Betsy Brunner at Idaho State examines the creative ways Chinese get around surveillance and censorship on social media.
A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.
Tim Kasser has spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being.
Catherine Steiner-Adair is a clinical psychologist whose empathic 2013 book The Big Disconnect warned us about the impacts of digital tech on child development and family relationships. She’s been on a non-stop speaking tour ever since.
For a computer scientist, Georgetown professor and author Cal Newport is hard to reach via email. But it’s part of his philosophy that focused concentration–so elusive in our overstimulated world–is the key to a better and more rewarding work a
Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Minds, Brains, and Machines, explains why AI's recent success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.
Twenty years after first warning of Internet addiction, Dr. David Greenfield's diagnosis has gone from outlier to mainstream. He explains what we know, what it means, and what can be done.
Cathy O'Neil wrote the 2016 bestseller Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. She shares her insider’s look at how algorithms are gaming our world.
Julie Brigham-Grette has been studying climate history for decades; she gives it to us straight about what’s happening in the Arctic with warming and sea-level rise.
Journalist and media critic Bill Powers wrote a bestselling book about stepping away from tech; now he’s on the inside trying to make tech better.
Narayan Liebenson, a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaks to us about the benefits of mindfulness and attention. How might smart devices be impacting our ability to be present?
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