Episodes
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
But equally important is a vehicle that gets little attention, All of its models together only traveled under 100 miles. When it was built it was over budget, over schedule, and was only a two-seater. It was the lunar rover vehicle that was a part of Apollo 15, 16, and 17. Without it, we’d know a lot less about the moon, about our own planet, and even the solar system. Not bad for a car that was bare bones and electrified, long before Elon Musk was born.
That’s the story that Earl Swift tell in his new book Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings.
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Bill Gates Has Always Shown Us Who He Is: A Conversation with Tim Schwab
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Investigative journalist Tim Schwab, argues that none of this is as bad or as global as some of the actions of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Tim and all of this out in his recent articles in The Nation and in a book he's working on about Gates and his foundation.
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
We see on display every day our interaction with Siri and Alexa, our reliance on algorithms in flying our planes and soon our self-driving cars.
It’s the full blossoming of the promised brave new world.
But AI is just the Internet in1995. While it dominates every conversation about technology, commerce, the workplace and the economy today, there is an awful lot of misinformation.
Its impact can be felt in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, automotive, robotics, finance and science, as well as defense and national security.
The academic progress of AI is taking place every day in places like Stanford, Google, Amazon and Facebook. And the proverbial elephant in the room with respect to AI is always China and its deep, rich and no holds barred commitment to be the world leader in AI
But nothing beats understanding AI’s future like seeing how we got where we are today, who are the people making it happen and what it portents for its future.
That is what NY Times journalist Cade Metz does in his book Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
Monday Jul 12, 2021
How We Got To Globalization Today: A Conversation with Jeffrey Garten
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
But 28 years later the children would grow up. The other economies of the world would come into their full inheritance. So much so that by the time of the Nixon administration, in 1971, it had to accommodate the change.
What happened next, as Nixon and his economic advisers would meet secretly at camp David, in August of 1971, set the stage for the modern era of globalization.
The gold standard would be abandoned, and a new world economic order would be born. I think it’s fair to say that it’s impossible to understand the global economy today without understand this singular moment
Jeffrey Garten, the Dean emeritus of the Yale School of Management, takes us back to this moment in his new work Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
A Constitution of Knowledge: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Jonathan Rauch, digs out those dusty blueprints in his new book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
We Are Our Information: A conversation with Caleb Scharf
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
And as we do so, how does it change us? Are we even aware of it, or like velocity and position, can it even be measured.
These are just some of the mind bending ideas put forth by renowned astrobiologist and the award-winning author Caleb Scharf in his latest book The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm