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Podcast Episode: 'I Squared' Governance
Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not big corporations and government. In that world, government does “after-action” analyses to make sure its tech...
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Podcast Episode: About Face (Recognition)
Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to...
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Podcast Episode: Antitrust/Pro-Internet
Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make good livings. In this world, the behavioral...
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Podcast Episode: Right to Repair Catches the Car
If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify it, is it really yours? The right to repair movement is...
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Podcast Episode: Building a Tactile Internet
Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an online library offering more than 1.2 million books...
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Podcast Episode: Chronicling Online Communities
From Napster to YouTube, some of the most important and controversial uses of the internet have been about building community: connecting people all over the world who share similar interests, tastes,...
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Podcast Episode: AI on the Artist's Palette
Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and thought-provoking. Technology has enabled and...
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Podcast Episode: AI in Kitopia
Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s both transparent enough for everyone to understand and...
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Podcast Episode: Fighting Enshittification
The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination"— you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experience. The problem was that it took a fair amount of technical...
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