Podcast #35: Ainissa Ramirez

Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.

By Betsy Brunner | June 4, 2020 | Culture, Ethics, Health, Knowledge, Media, Podcasts, Society, Transportation, Well-Being | Attention, Bias, Binary Thinking, Circadian Rhythms, Communications, Community, Consumerism, Control, Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Diversity, Education, Electric Light, Emotional Reactivity, Empathy, Engineers, History, Imagination, Invention, Inventors, Language, Literature, Memory, Motivation, Non-Verbal Communication, Nuance, Photography, Polarization, Politics, Reading, Science, Self-Empowerment, Self-Identity, Social Media, Speed, STEM, storytelling, Telegraph, Texting, The Alchemy of Us, Trains, Twitter, Unintended Consequences

The Risks of Public Data

A desire for convenience and openness has left local and state public records easily available for mining, combining, and abuse.

By Craig Kelley | March 18, 2020 | Government, Law, Privacy | Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, Convenience, Data, Data Collection, Data-Mining, Databases, Efficiency, Government, Internet, Massachusetts, Paper Records, Privacy, Public Data, Registry of Deeds, Speed, Transparency, Transportation, Voter Registry

Google’s Smart Reply: Convenience Over Connection

Gmail offers users canned responses to emails, based on AI interpretations of the contents and the user’s typical writing style. This convenience, unknown to the recipient, comes at a social cost.

By Samantha Maxwell | December 20, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Ethics, Relationships, Society | Automation, Communication, Connection, Connectivity, Convenience, Conversation, Email, Friendship, Gmail, Google, Love, relationships, Smart Reply, Social Interaction, Speed

Disruptive Technologies Outpace Our Adaptability

As digital technologies improve exponentially, the pace of change has become too great for healthy adaptation.

By Mo Lotman | August 9, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Economics, Employment, Philosophy, Society, Well-Being | Agriculture, AI, Clay Christensen, Disruption, Employment, FailCon, Homo Sapiens, Invention, Moore's Law, Moveable Type, Pace, Retraining, Silicon Valley, Speed, The Internet, The Wheel, Wisdom

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