The Complicated Evolution of Information, With Jim Cortada
Innovation Files: Where Tech Meets Public Policy
English - July 17, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBTechnology Government technology innovation policy economics think tank government regulation law congress Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Over the past 150 years, humanity has generated an unprecedented amount and variety of information, surpassing the cumulative knowledge of previous eras. Rob and Jackie sat down with Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities to talk about how information shapes society.
MentionedJim Cortada, Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and Businesses, (Sandman Books, 2023). Sarah Lamdan, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information, (Stanford University Press, 2022).RelatedDavid Moschella, “We Shouldn’t Ask Technologists To Be Arbiters of ‘Truth’,” (ITIF, July 2023).