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What Is Civil War in the Digital Age? — with Barbara F. Walter
Your Undivided Attention - April 21, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsCivil war might be the most likely escalation pathway towards disaster for our country. On the flip side, learning how to avoid civil conflict — and more ambitiously, repair our civic fabric — might have the greatest leverage for addressing the challenges we face. Our guest Barbara F. Walter is...
Bonus – What Is Humane Technology?
Your Undivided Attention - April 07, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings“The fundamental problem of humanity is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.” — E. O. Wilson. More than ever, we need the wisdom to match the power of our God-like technology. Yet, technology is both eroding our ability to make sense of the world, a...
Spotlight — What Is Humane Technology?
Your Undivided Attention - April 07, 2022 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings“The fundamental problem of humanity is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.” — E. O. Wilson. More than ever, we need the wisdom to match the power of our God-like technology. Yet, technology is both eroding our ability to make sense of the world, a...
Digital Democracy is Within Reach with Audrey Tang (Rerun)
Your Undivided Attention - March 24, 2022 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings[This episode originally aired on July 23rd, 2020.] Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent and audio and video of all conversations between lawmakers and lobbyists are available to the public imm...
The Dark Side Of Decentralization — with Audrey Kurth Cronin
Your Undivided Attention - March 10, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIs decentralization inherently a good thing? These days, there's a lot of talk about decentralization. Decentralized social media platforms can allow us to own our own data. Decentralized cryptocurrencies can enable bank-free financial transactions. Decentralized 3D printing can allow us to fa...
The Dark Side Of Decentralization
Your Undivided Attention - March 10, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIs decentralization inherently a good thing? These days, there's a lot of talk about decentralization. Decentralized social media platforms can allow us to own our own data. Decentralized cryptocurrencies can enable bank-free financial transactions. Decentralized 3D printing can allow us to fa...
The Invisible Influence of Language — with Lera Boroditsky
Your Undivided Attention - February 24, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOne of the oldest technologies we have is language. How do the words we use influence the way we think? The media can talk about immigrants scurrying across the border, versus immigrants crossing the border. Or we might hear about technology platforms censoring us, versus moderating content. ...
The Invisible Influence of Language
Your Undivided Attention - February 24, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOne of the oldest technologies we have is language. How do the words we use influence the way we think? The media can talk about immigrants scurrying across the border, versus immigrants crossing the border. Or we might hear about technology platforms censoring us, versus moderating content. ...
How Science Fiction Can Shape Our Reality
Your Undivided Attention - February 10, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe meta-crisis is so vast: climate change, exponential technology, addiction, polarization, and more. How do we grasp it, let alone take steps to address it? One of the thinking tools we have at our disposal is science fiction. To the extent that we co-evolve with our stories, science fiction...
How Science Fiction Can Shape Our Reality — with Kim Stanley Robinson
Your Undivided Attention - February 10, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe meta-crisis is so vast: climate change, exponential technology, addiction, polarization, and more. How do we grasp it, let alone take steps to address it? One of the thinking tools we have at our disposal is science fiction. To the extent that we co-evolve with our stories, science fiction...
Here’s Our Plan And We Don’t Know — with Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Stephanie Lepp
Your Undivided Attention - February 03, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsRenowned quantum physicist Richard Feynman once wrote, "It is our capacity to doubt that will determine the future of civilization." In that spirit, this episode is a little different – because we're talking openly about our doubts, with you, our listeners. It's also different because it’s hos...
Here’s Our Plan And We Don’t Know
Your Undivided Attention - February 03, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsRenowned quantum physicist Richard Feynman once wrote, "It is our capacity to doubt that will determine the future of civilization." In that spirit, this episode is a little different – because we're talking openly about our doubts, with you, our listeners. It's also different because it’s hos...
Is World War III Already Here?
Your Undivided Attention - January 13, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWould you say that the US is in war-time or peace-time? How do you know? The truth is, the nature of warfare has changed so fundamentally, that we're currently in a war we don't even recognize. It's the war that Russia, China, and other hostile foreign actors are fighting against us — weaponi...
Is World War III Already Here? — with Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster
Your Undivided Attention - January 13, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWould you say that the US is in war-time or peace-time? How do you know? The truth is, the nature of warfare has changed so fundamentally, that we're currently in a war we don't even recognize. It's the war that Russia, China, and other hostile foreign actors are fighting against us — weaponi...
A Fresh Take on Tech in China
Your Undivided Attention - December 10, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWho do you think the Chinese government considers its biggest rival? The United States, right? Actually, the Chinese government considers its biggest rival to be its own technology companies. It's China's tech companies who threaten its capacity to build a competitive China. That's why the Chi...
A Fresh Take on Tech in China — with Rui Ma and Duncan Clark
Your Undivided Attention - December 10, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWho do you think the Chinese government considers its biggest rival? The United States, right? Actually, the Chinese government considers its biggest rival to be its own technology companies. It's China's tech companies who threaten its capacity to build a competitive China. That's why the Chi...
Test Run!
Your Undivided Attention - November 30, 2021 09:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThis is a description of this episode of Your Undivided Attention.
Behind the Curtain on The Social Dilemma
Your Undivided Attention - November 11, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHow do you make a film that impacts more than 100 million people in 190 countries in 30 languages? This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're going behind the curtain on The Social Dilemma — the Netflix documentary about the dark consequences of the social media business model, which featured...
Behind the Curtain on The Social Dilemma — with Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Larissa Rhodes
Your Undivided Attention - November 11, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHow do you make a film that impacts more than 100 million people in 190 countries in 30 languages? This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're going behind the curtain on The Social Dilemma — the Netflix documentary about the dark consequences of the social media business model, which featured...
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen in Conversation
Your Undivided Attention - October 18, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWe are now in social media's Big Tobacco moment. And that’s largely thanks to the courage of one woman: Frances Haugen. Frances is a specialist in algorithmic product management. She worked at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp before joining Facebook — first as a Product Manager on Civic Misinformati...
A Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen
Your Undivided Attention - October 18, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWe are now in social media's Big Tobacco moment. And that’s largely thanks to the courage of one woman: Frances Haugen. Frances is a specialist in algorithmic product management. She worked at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp before joining Facebook — first as a Product Manager on Civic Misinformati...
Bonus — A Whirlwind Week of Whistleblowing
Your Undivided Attention - October 06, 2021 20:15 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn seven years of working on the problems of runaway technology, we’ve never experienced a week like this! In this bonus episode of Your Undivided Attention, we recap this whirlwind of a week — from Facebook whistleblower France Haugen going public on 60 Minutes on Sunday, to the massive outage ...
Spotlight — A Whirlwind Week of Whistleblowing
Your Undivided Attention - October 06, 2021 20:15 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn seven years of working on the problems of runaway technology, we’ve never experienced a week like this! In this bonus episode of Your Undivided Attention, we recap this whirlwind of a week — from Facebook whistleblower France Haugen going public on 60 Minutes on Sunday, to the massive outage ...
Making Meaning in Challenging Times — with Jamie Wheal
Your Undivided Attention - September 30, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhat helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you avoid nihilism or fundamentalism, and instead access healing, inspiration, and connection? Today on Your Undivided Attention, we're joi...
Making Meaning in Challenging Times
Your Undivided Attention - September 30, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhat helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you avoid nihilism or fundamentalism, and instead access healing, inspiration, and connection? Today on Your Undivided Attention, we're joi...
Bonus — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger
Your Undivided Attention - September 21, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOn September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems are meticulously known inside the company — all the way up to Mark Zuckerberg. Pollster Frank Luntz invited Tristan Harris along with friend and mentor Dani...
Spotlight — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger
Your Undivided Attention - September 21, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOn September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems are meticulously known inside the company — all the way up to Mark Zuckerberg. Pollster Frank Luntz invited Tristan Harris along with friend and mentor Dani...
The Power of Solutions Journalism — with Tina Rosenberg and Hélène Biandudi Hofer
Your Undivided Attention - September 03, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhat is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act? The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) understands that simply reporting on social problems rarely leads to change. What they’ve discovered is that rigorously reporting on response...
The Power of Solutions Journalism
Your Undivided Attention - September 03, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhat is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act? The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) understands that simply reporting on social problems rarely leads to change. What they’ve discovered is that rigorously reporting on response...
Do You Want to Become a Vampire? — with L.A. Paul
Your Undivided Attention - August 12, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHow do we decide whether to undergo a transformative experience when we don’t know how that experience will change us? This is the central question explored by Yale philosopher and cognitive scientist L.A. Paul. Paul uses the prospect of becoming a vampire to illustrate the conundrum: let's sa...
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