Spotlight — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron
This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re doing something different: we’re airing an episode of another podcast that’s also part of the TED Audio Collective.Backing up for a moment: we recently air...
16 Jun 202231min
How Political Language Is Engineered — with Drew Westen and Frank Luntz
Democracy depends on our ability to choose our political views. But the language we use to talk about political issues is deliberately designed to be divisive, and can produce up to a 15-point differe...
2 Jun 202236min
Transcending the Internet Hate Game — with Dylan Marron
The game that social media sets us up to play is a game that rewards outrage. It's a game that we win by being better than other players at dunking on each other, straw-manning each other, and assumin...
19 Mai 202245min
How To Free Our Minds — with Cult Deprogramming Expert Dr. Steven Hassan
How would you know if you were in a cult? If not a cult, then at least under undue influence?The truth is: we're all under some form of undue influence. The question is: to what degree and to what ext...
5 Mai 202251min
Spotlight — A Bigger Picture on Elon & Twitter
If Elon Musk owns Twitter, what are the risks and what are the opportunities? In order for Twitter to support democracy — and Musk’s goal of becoming a multi-planetary civilization — we need a radical...
26 Apr 202213min
What Is Civil War in the Digital Age? — with Barbara F. Walter
Civil war might be the most likely escalation pathway towards disaster for our country. On the flip side, learning how to avoid civil conflict — and more ambitiously, repair our civic fabric — might h...
21 Apr 202249min
Spotlight — What Is Humane Technology?
“The fundamental problem of humanity is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.” — E. O. Wilson.More than ever, we need the wisdom to match the power of our ...
7 Apr 202212min
Digital Democracy is Within Reach with Audrey Tang (Rerun)
[This episode originally aired on July 23rd, 2020.] Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent and audi...
24 Mar 202247min
