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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tcmpd-1726126 In this episode of the show, I speak with Tom Coughlin, the standing President and CEO of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. We discuss the IEEE’s vision of technological innovatinon, what it really means to “benefit humanity” through tech, and how the tech…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-k7bfm-1717a12 Today we are bringing you a conversation featuring one technologist who is rethinking and reshaping social media—to build platforms that spark empathy and joy, not division and hate. Vardon Hamdiu is the co-founder and head of Sparkable, a young nonprofit organization that builds a social media platform aimed at bridging divides. Growing up immersed…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yqia9-170e9f2 In this episode of “Technically Human,” I bring you a conversation with one of the great thinkers working at the intersection of ethics and technology, Professor Todd Presner, for an episode about his new book, Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory. In the conversation, we talk about new direction in Holocaust…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dhhg8-16fe1a1 In this week’s episode of the show, I speak with Daniel Kelley about the culture of online gaming, and the unique set of challenges in the gaming space, related to hate, harassment, and extremism. We talk about the possibilities, and limitations, of regulating that space, and what the landscape of gaming might foretell about…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ijcxh-16d9b09 Hi Technically Human listeners! Welcome back to another episode of the show. Today I’m sitting down with Alva Noë. We talk about his new book, The Entanglement, and the relationship between technology, philosophy, and art. In The Entanglement, Professor Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pheq2-16e3cea In this episode of the show, I speak with Dr. Thomas Mullaney about his new book, The Chinese Computer. In the book, Dr. Mullaney outlines the history and evolution of Chinese language computing technology, and explores how the technology of the QWERTY keyboard changed this history of computing. We talk about how the structure…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iae6x-16d83bf Hi Technically Human Listeners! After a long summer break we are back with a brand season and brand new episodes of the show! To kick off the season, we are bringing you an episode that I’m calling “agree to disagree,” with two guests, Robert D. Atkinson and David Moschella, who join me to argue…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-huzw4-160abd4 Today I’m speaking with Projjal Ghatak, CEO & Co-Founder At Onloop, about the ethics of teamwork, collaboration, and providing constructive feedback. Projjal founded OnLoop in 2020 to create a category called Collaborative Team Development (CTD) to fundamentally reinvent how hybrid teams are assessed and developed,  after over a decade of frustration with clunky, traditional…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-niwxr-15f76f8 In this episode of the show, I speak with Sarah Fairweather about what it is like to be an ethics worker. We talk about how ethical work can sync up with business practices, how to develop a culture of ethics in industry, and Sarah talks me through what it is like to practice ethics…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bdf9e-15ec8b0 In this episode of the show, I sit down with author Mike Trigg about his new novel, Burner. Mike Trigg is an author, a novelist, a tech executive, a tech founder, and an investor in dozens of technology start-up companies for over twenty-five years. His first novel, Bit Flip, was released in August 2022 to…