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Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari says we’re...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In her book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed into ...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week, Laura talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement. If we take the ...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Doug Storm is joined by David Delaney from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Steve Myers from the School of Informatics and Comp...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:40
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The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock ...

  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 08:40
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Hear what happens when award-winning filmmakers are locked in a room with world-class technologists for ten days to be creative, write code, and he...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 10:00
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We may be able to get drinking water from treated sewage -- and water shortages could eventually force us to rely on this option.

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1