A Conversation with Tristan Harris, Co-Founder & President of the Center for Humane Technology
Called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine, Tristan Harris spent three years as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens. He is now co-founder & president of…
04-10-2025 16:19:00
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A Conversation with Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Composer, Artist & Author.
Jaron Lanier is a renaissance man, and one of the most profoundly important thinkers of our age on the relationship of technology to humanity. He is a computer scientist, composer, artist, and author who writes on numerous topics, including high-technology business, the social impact of technology, the philosophy of consciousness…
04-10-2025 16:20:04
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A Conversation with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Co-Founder of the Open Data Institute
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is one of the world's foremost computer scientists. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science. He is…
04-10-2025 16:20:18
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A Conversation with Ally Brooke, Multiplatinum Singer-Songwriter & Former Member of Fifth Harmony
Ally Brooke is an astonishing talent. Following her time in Fifth Harmony (described by Billboard as the biggest girl group of the 2010s’), the multiplatinum singer-songwriter kicked off her solo career with back-to-back Top 40 charting singles and an impressive resume of collaborations including “All Night” with Afrojack which marked…
04-10-2025 16:20:34
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A Conversation with Jade Jagger, Artist, Creative Director and Visionary Jeweller.
Jade Jagger is a visionary artist, creative director and jeweller. Her childhood coincided with the halcyon days of the New York pop art scene and Andy Warhol once famously said, “I love Mick and Bianca, but Jade’s more my speed. I taught her how to colour and she showed me…
04-10-2025 16:20:45
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A Conversation with Gad Saad on Parasitic Ideas and the War Against Truth.
Dr. Gad Saad is a remarkable public intellectual. Alongside hosting the Saad Truth (his hugely popular YouTube show) he is Professor of Marketing at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and former holder of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. In addition to his scientific work,…
04-10-2025 16:20:57
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A Conversation with Andrew Kassoy, Co-Founder of B Lab Global, the not-for-profit behind the B Corp movement.
Over 3,500 businesses around the world, including household names such as Danone, Innocent and Patagonia, have taken the journey to become Certified B Corporations- committing to the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. B Corps are accelerating a…
04-10-2025 16:21:11
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A Conversation with David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)
David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where he oversees the agency’s humanitarian relief operations in more than 40 war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in over 20 United States cities. In 2019 alone, the IRC provided 1,474,900 children with schooling and…
04-10-2025 16:21:25
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A Conversation with Ngaire Woods, Founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government.
Professor Ngaire Woods is one of the world’s preeminent experts in global government, and governance. She is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of globalization,…
04-10-2025 16:21:36
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On Film – Conversations with Paul Greengrass, Ken Loach & Tosca Musk
The moving image has been with us as long as we have made art. From prehistoric shadowgraphy, through to shadow puppetry and camera obscura- we have been fascinated by creating and observing moving depictions of culturally and socially significant aspects of life. It was not until the mid 1800s as…
04-10-2025 16:21:56
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On Critical Theory: A Conversation with Dr. James Lindsay, Co-Founder of New Discourses.
Critical theories have a distinctive aim amongst the methods by which we evaluate our society. They ostensibly wish to unmask the justifications for some form(s) of social or economic oppressions as being ideology and thus contribute to the ending of that oppression. The noble aim of critical theory therefore is…
04-10-2025 16:22:13
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A Conversation with Perry Chen, Principal Founder of Kickstarter.
In 2009, Kickstarter was born from a singular mission to help bring creative projects to life. Since then, 18.4 million people have collectively pledged over $5.23 billion into more than 186,000 projects. The Kickstarter mission extends to the very fabric of how the business is structured. In 2015, they became…
04-10-2025 16:22:26
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