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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-asv7b-1b60e0e What does it mean for the web to be open—and open to whom? For most of the web’s history, we’ve operated on a fairly simple assumption: if you put something on a public website, people could find it, search engines could index it, and information could move relatively freely across the internet. But as…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-km735-1b5813a My guest today is Dave Merritt, cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of Watch Duty. Founded in 2021, Watch Duty is a nonprofit emergency-information platform that provides real-time, verified intelligence about wildfires and floods across all 50 states. Its network of active and retired firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and reporters monitors radio traffic, satellites, cameras,…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zv3vw-1b45108 In the wake of this week’s landmark $18 billion settlement with Meta, we’re bringing you an episode with Yaël Eisenstat, one of the leading thinkers on the issues at the heart of that case — and the many other recent legal challenges that may be fundamentally changing how we think about the power and…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ddexy-1b3e333 My conversation today is with Monika Bielskyte, a futurist, foresight strategist, speculative designer and founder of Protopia Futures. She developed the Protopia World Stack, a science-informed, life-centric foresight methodology. Protopia is an Inclusive future vision based on evolved values, informed by bleeding edge scientific research and supported by advanced technological tools. She was Nike’s first…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xg4eg-1b1c012 On this episode I’m joined by Jess Holbrook, Head of UX Research for Microsoft AI. We talk about what UX research can—and cannot—tell us about what people need; why user-centered design may be too individualistic for technologies whose effects extend across families, workplaces, communities, and institutions; and what it means to put researchers in the…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hdvmu-1b13937 Today I am interviewing Bruce Friedrich, the author of the newly published book “Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food―and Our Future.” Bruce Friedrich is the president and founder of the Good Food Institute, one of the leading think tanks working to make the global food system better for the…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2pbyp-1b1371f My guest for this episode is Professor Aleem Hossain, a writer and director working across science fiction, fantasy, experimental cinema, and television. His feature film After We Leave won Best Feature Film at the Sci-Fi-London film festival and Best Director at the Berlin Sci-Fi festival, and his AI-generated short film, Do Bangladroids Dream of…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ngwwj-1b196bd Today I’m speaking with Dana Mazia, General Manager of the Bright Initiative by Bright Data, which provides nonprofits, academic institutions, and public bodies with pro bono access to public web data and expertise. Dana is a lawyer, social entrepreneur, and World Economic Forum Global Shaper with more than 14 years of experience across technology,…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i63e5-1b04516 Globally, 8 billion people will experience trauma in their lifetime. Ninety-three percent of those in crisis will not receive adequate care. The barriers are familiar: cost, stigma, language, geography, workforce shortages. What is less familiar is someone actually building technology to address all of them at once, starting from survivor experience rather than market…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mtqg7-1b03778 My guest today is Avi Tuschman, founder and CEO of Crickit.ai, an AI tool that live fact-checks social media videos. It’s a visionary technology that analyzes and verifies claims made on videos shared on social media platforms in real time. Crickit.ai aims to help people make smarter, healthier decisions about what they accept as…