We discuss why collecting that gold watch and retiring at 65 might not be the best thing and why it’s time to change the retirement narrative.A lot has changed since Otto von Bismark invented retirement in 1883: we live much longer, more and m

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Coming soon… unlearn retirement

Dec 23rd, 2021 4m 12s

Coming soon… we look at retiring retirement. We talk with a leading mental health researcher, an economist, a former Prime Minister, Nobel Prize winners, a linguist, and an octogenarian human computer.Stay tuned in 2022 for more episodes of Th

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Extra: a music deep dive

Dec 20th, 2021 30m 55s

In this extra episode, we take a deep dive into the history of the music industry. We go down rabbit holes that take us from Victorian England to Sydney harbour in the 70s and then on to the hip hop culture of New York in the 80s. We trace the

Why music is no longer just for listening: unlearn music

Oct 20th, 2021 48m 49s

We discuss how the way we engage with music is fundamentally changing - from something we just listen to, to something we create with. On platforms like TikTok, music is becoming a material for creation, for self-expression, for storytelling. A

Why automation makes your job harder: unlearn automation

Sep 13th, 2021 51m 49s

We discuss why it’s no longer true that automation and AI will make all our jobs easier. While automation might reduce the amount of work available to humans and leads to job losses, at least the remaining work will be of higher quality. This c

Why the unlearn project, and computers

Sep 7th, 2021 36m 48s

We set out to unlearn old wisdoms and discover new ones, starting with computers. When the world changes, we also need to change our common sense. And as it turns out we live in a time when lots of things change, and many of them have to do wit

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Introducing The Unlearn Project

Aug 23rd, 2021 3m 7s

The Unlearn Project is about changing common sense. The way the world works has changed. Things you thought you knew like automation will make our work easier, music is something to listen to, large companies can’t innovate, or data is the new