Ep 41 - Narrative in the Age of AI
This time a conversation with Nicholas DeMille on the “engineering/architecture” of narrative. We discussed salons and coffee houses as “social technologies” that emerge across history after technolo...
13 Elo 43min
Ep 40 - Can a Machine Have Good Taste?
I was interested in what was going on with Openclaw and heard that Lan Wei, a PHD at MBZUAI had won a hackathon experimenting with the edges of a new technology. Turns out her keen interest is the int...
19 Kesä 34min
Ep39 - What a Victorian Biologist Can Teach Us About Thinking
I came to Eduardo's office expecting to talk about cells and data. What I found on his wall were the illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century German naturalist whose drawings of jellyfish, radio...
15 Touko 33min
Ep 38 - Mammanoids & Tediophobes
Drawing on a 1960s speech by Howard Luck Gossage that contrasts money-driven business builders who want repeatable formulas with creative people who become more exploratory and less controllable as th...
9 Huhti 13min
Ep37 - I Did Exactly What I Said I Wouldn't Do
After a five-month hiatus and a move to Abu Dhabi to take up the role of Head of Creative at the AI university MBZUAI, I've finally worked out why I got stuck with the Salon, and what it should become...
15 Maalis 10min
Ep 36 - The Socrates of San Francisco - BBC Radio 4
After 2 years on BBC sounds the link to our radio show is no longer working... so... the opportunity to share it with you here. One of the advantages is the opportunity to share with you a new 'direct...
6 Elo 202553min
Ep 35 - LIVE - How to be creative about next to nothing at all
In this episode of Firehouse Salon Live, we discussed creativity and the process behind it with our guests: Filmmaker Philip Rachid - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philiprachid/ and Designer Dave Office...
19 Kesä 20251h 3min
Ep 34 - LIVE - "We Are Yet to Take the Helm of This Spaceship"
In this episode, we dive into the legacy of Howard Luck Gossage and explore creativity, environment, and unconventional thinking. Guests: Ali Grant - Designer and inventor of the Halo - https://www....
22 Touko 202558min
