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An Afterword to Words Themselves? Bethanne Patrick on six speculative novels which imagine a world saturated by AI
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Should we punish innovation? Keith Teare on public and private investment markets, breaking up Google and paying to use X
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How to think faster and talk smarter: Matt Abrahams on speaking successfully when you're put on the spot
34:38
Is Web3 technology - like Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, DAOs, NFTs et al - just the latest Silicon Valley hype? Alex Tapscott separates the signal from the noise on the internet's next economic and cultural frontier
46:58
On the Awesomeness of Globalization: Keith Teare explains why the next chapter of globalized technology will undermine the economic and political power of the nation-state
36:10
AI as our Oppenheimer moment: Benedikt Franke, CEO of the Munich Security Conference, on the geo-political significance of today's AI revolution
23:20
Why today's "Polycrisis" is akin to living in a hospice: Anya Kamenetz untangles the environmental, psychological, epidemiological, economic and political crises of our age
29:58
What, exactly, is female beauty? Celeste Marcus on Bardot and Barbie as rival and perhaps incompatible types of beautiful women
41:33
8 inspiring non-fiction reads for the summer: Bethanne Patrick on books about New York City sex cults, the oceanic underworld, Ghanian confidence tricksters and American women, fathers and sons
34:07
How something really strange began to happen on social media in 2016
45:33
Hot Reads for the Heatwave
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The Netscape Moment When AI Gets a Brain
38:30
Talking to the Mafia about Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Jimmy Hoffa
37:27
The American Dream of a "Tossed Salad": Luma Mufleh on reconciling her identity as a gay Muslim woman with an Arab-turned-American refugee
23:39
Why Big Tech is Getting Even Bigger: Keith Teare on how the biggest tech companies now control our economic and political fates
33:52
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Peter Cave on the scholars, dreamers and sages who can teach us how to live
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The Siberian Job: John Kleinheinz on how he got rich in post-communist Russia and what that experience taught him about the value of free markets and democracy
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