Podcast Episodes featuring Gemma Milne

Please hype responsibly: Talking about complex systems with Gemma Milne

What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech - March 10, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Jennifer Riggins and Rich Gall talk to Gemma Milne, journalist, broadcaster, researcher, and author of Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures The Future and How to See Past It. In this episode Gemma explains the role hype plays in the technology industry, how it shapes the way the public underst...

Please hype responsibly: talking about complex systems with Gemma Milne

What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech - March 10, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Jennifer Riggins and Rich Gall talk to Gemma Milne, journalist, broadcaster, researcher, and author of Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures The Future and How to See Past It. In this episode Gemma explains the role hype plays in the technology industry, how it shapes the way the public underst...

Gemma Milne, "Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It" (Robinson, 2021)

New Books Network - December 10, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Bombastic headlines about science and technology are nothing new. To cut through the constant stream of information and misinformation on social media, or grab the attention of investors, or convince governments to take notice, strident headlines or bold claims seem necessary to give complex, nua...

Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future, and How to See Past It - with Gemma Milne

Physical Attraction - May 15, 2020 08:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 75 ratings
I'm excited today to say that we have a guest on the show - Gemma Milne, who has written a book, Smoke and Mirrors, about how technological hype distorts the future. I really enjoyed the book, which deals with nine areas of considerable hype in technology, and not only takes you through some of ...

#257 Gemma Milne: Are We Being Fooled Online & How Do We Spot It?

Ctrl Alt Delete - April 23, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratings
My guest today is Gemma Milne, the science/tech writer and author of Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It . Her works have been featured in the BBC, The Times and she is the co-founder of Science: Disrupt – a media outlet covering advances in science startups, res...

Hype, Smoke and Mirrors, with Gemma Milne and Carl Miller

Intelligence Squared - April 14, 2020 17:28 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Hype has a dark side. It can mislead, distract and blinker us from seeing what is actually going on. In this episode we are joined by Gemma Milne, tech journalist and author of Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It, in conversation with Carl Miller of the think ta...

Live show with Smoke & Mirrors author Gemma Milne at The Boulevard Theatre Soho

The suchandrika's Podcast - March 23, 2020 09:17 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Freelance Pod is back after a little break! It's now a monthly podcast, but everything else stays the same. Of course, until the Coronavirus Lockdown is over, it's going to be remote record all the way...  So this episode is the live show from November 2019, when author Gemma Milne joined me o...

Episode 4 - Making Sense of Complex Subjects with Gemma Milne

Learning Day - February 04, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Public announcement before I introduce this episode! I'm in the hunt for the next topics to cover on Learning Day. Reach out through Instagram. Thanks! ✨ Today’s guest is Gemma Milne. Gemma simplifies complex topics related to technology and science and is passionate about understanding how tho...

On a Journey to Find Meaningful Work: Meet Gemma Milne

Humans with Josh Levent - December 22, 2018 15:25 - 1 hour
Gemma Milne is a British science writer and speaker on innovation and technology. Despite being a high-achiever (or maybe because of it), she struggled to find work that was meaningful to her. This is one of the things that makes her very human. Another thing that makes her human is her self-aw...