Technologist and writer Ben Hammersley explores the role of the internet and digital technologies in today’s workplace. As social media, mobile devices, constant communication, online sharing, and…
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Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which…
By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it’s like to be young and … different. To This Day,…
Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of…
Don’t make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar…
Media that spy on and data-mine the public are capable of destroying humanity’s most precious freedom: freedom of thought. Ensuring that media remain structured to support rather…
Jerry Porrass research interests are the characteristics of visionary companies in both the United States and Europe; the dynamics of planned organizational change process; organizational vision and…
Legendary producer John Lloyd is renowned for his voracious appetite for ideas. In a bid to know ever more about the universe and our place in it,…
Mr. Chomsky gives to us an eloquent historical, present and future perspectives as to the public educational system in the US how he believes it has been…
People, especially freelancers, often have trouble getting paid by a client for the work they were doing. Are any of these familiar to you: We ended up…
The debate explores the causes of and cures for the enduring problem of severe poverty which still affects many people in the world. On the panel are…
