Podcast #8: Tim Wu On Attention and Communications Networks

Tim Wu is a renowned scholar on our communications networks, having coined the phrase “net neutrality” and written extensively on the subject both inside and outside of government and academia, including the White House and Columbia University. His latest book, The Attention Merchants, is a history of advertising, and it’s not pretty. He spoke with us about our declining private spheres, the current state of the Internet, and the effects of what he calls The Cycle, as new communications technologies inevitably move from open to closed.

By Mo Lotman | January 11, 2017 | Advertising, Culture, Economics, Journalism, Media, Podcasts, Politics, Privacy, Publishing, Relationships, Society | Advertising, Amish, Attention, Bell Telephone, Buzzfeed, Capitalism, Closed Systems, Convenience, David Sarnoff, Democracy, Friendship, Individuality, Innovation, Internet, Medium, Microfame, Monopoly, NBC, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Oji-Cree, Open Systems, Paid Content, RCA, Richard Posner, The Cycle, Theodore Vail, Utopia

Podcast #1: Lee Spector and the future of AI

Computer Scientist Lee Spector sits down with The Technoskeptic for a wide-ranging discussion about artificial intelligence, the dangers and benefits of machine learning, and what it means to be human.

By Mo Lotman | July 15, 2015 | Artificial Intelligence, Podcasts, Society | AI, Amazon, Automation, Climate Change, Consciousness, Evolutionary Computation, Lee Spector, Machine Learning, Netflix, Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Hawking, Stuart Armstrong, Subscriber