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How Technology Stole Our Minds
To learn more about how technology has stolen our attention; and what we can do to get it back, I spoke to James Williams (Writer & researcher on the philosophy and ethics…
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Technology, AI & The Future of Humanity
What 280 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about our technological future
Health & Medicine
The Continuum of Mind: A Conversation with Professor Michael Levin on Cognition, Bioelectricity and the Future of Being
In this interview, I spoke to Professor Michael Levin, who argues that cognition came before life rather than after it. We discussed bioelectric "cognitive glue", xenobots and anthrobots, why six lines of…
Business & Economics
Incorruptible: Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad — and How to Build Ones That Don’t
In this interview, I spoke to Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup method and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who argues that corporate corruption is structural rather than moral. We…
Wisdom
Science & Understanding the Universe
What 190 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about the nature of reality
Wisdom
The Nature of Leadership
What 373 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about the essence of leadership
Business & Economics
J. Doyne Farmer: AI, Chaos Theory & Complex Systems
In this interview I speak to J. Doyne Farmer, who is an American complex systems scientist and entrepreneur who was a pioneer in many of the fields that define the scientific agenda…
Culture, Society, Sports & Arts
Oliver Burkeman on Using Time Well: Four Thousand Weeks
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we use them best? Oliver Burkeman is author…
Health & Medicine
Bryan Johnson: Transforming Health & Lifespan
Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Through his Project Blueprint, Johnson has achieved metabolic health equal to the…
Business & Economics
Kate Raworth on Doughnut Economics & Redesigning Economy
Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and…
Business & Economics
Seth Godin on Creativity
Seth Godin is the author of 20 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He’s also the founder of the altMBA and…
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Virginia McKenna OBE: Born Free Foundation & Animal Rights
My interview with Virginia McKenna OBE, Founder of the Born Free Foundation - on humanity's relationship with the animal kingdom.
Culture, Society, Sports & Arts
Mental Health: Interviews with Global Leaders
The World’s Most Profound Health Challenge. In these exclusive interviews we speak to: Dr. Thomas Insel (Former Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health, NIMH – Co-Founder, Mindstrong Health), Dr. Shekhar Saxena…
Business & Economics
Climate Change Threat: Nobel Laureates & World Leaders
How Climate Change and Environmental Damage Threaten Humanity, and What We Can Do to Protect Our Future. In this exclusive interview series, we speak to H.E. Mohamed Nasheed (Former President of the…
Culture, Society, Sports & Arts
Photography & Humanity | Rankin, David Bailey, Albert Watson
Is Humanity Defined By Its Images? In this exclusive interview series, we speak to Rankin, David Bailey CBE, Albert Watson and Peter Lik (four of the world’s greatest photographers), HRH Prince Constantijn of…
Business & Economics
Reimagining Our World: Fix Broken Nations & Societies
How we can fix our broken nations, economies, societies and cultures. In these exclusive interviews we speak to Professor Theodore Zeldin (International Best-Selling Author and Scholar), Rutger Bregman (Author, ‘Utopia for Realists’),…
Business & Economics
Women’s Greatest Injustices: Nobel Laureates Speak
In this exclusive interview series, we talk to: Leymah Gbowee (Nobel Peace Prize Winner), Leslee Udwin (Director of ‘India’s Daughter’ and Founder of Think Equal), Sheryl WuDunn (Co-Founder, Half the Sky Movement),…
Culture, Society, Sports & Arts
Justice, Race & Guns: David Simon on American Pathologies
“Behold, the lewd, pornographic embrace of two great American pathologies…” wrote David Simon, “Race and guns, both of which have conspired not only to take the life of a teenager, but to…
Business & Economics
Money and Human Development: Attali & Ehrbeck
In these exclusive interviews we speak to Prof. Jacques Attali (Former adviser to President François Mitterrand, first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and ranked as one of the…
Business & Economics
Global Ultra-Wealth: UHNW Trends & $25 Trillion
Guest article written for AllAboutAlpha.com – the official publication of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association Originally posted at: http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/01/12/the-state-of-global-ultra-wealth/ The 2011 World Ultra Wealth Report (published by intelligence provider Wealth-X)…
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Our boredom threshold has declined to the point where we're unable to stand idle in an elevator for ten seconds without pulling out our phones. There's also an epidemic of social avoidance, particularly among younger people, as the skills required for face-to-face interaction are more demanding.
— Adam AlterPsychologist & Author specializing in behavioral psychology and irrational decision-making
Our apps and platforms are addictive by design. We know this both because the tech titans behind them have admitted it publicly, and because the dominant apps and social media platforms use the same suite of techniques that are well-proven to ensnare us.
— Adam AlterPsychologist & Author specializing in behavioral psychology and irrational decision-making
Our apps and platforms are addictive by design. We know this both because the tech titans behind them have admitted it publicly, and because the dominant apps and social media platforms use the same suite of techniques that are well-proven to ensnare us.
— Adam AlterPsychologist & Author specializing in behavioral psychology and irrational decision-making