Episode 22: Balancing on the Abyss, with Dave Karpf
This week, Adam and returning guest Dave Karpf talk about what it's like to gaze into the abyss of politics and tech as part of their jobs, and how to find balance and maintain their sanity while doin...
8 Sep 1h 4min
Sharing a new series from Future Hindsight, Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising.
Occupy Wall Street is the story of the improbable becoming possible. In 2008, millions of people were devastated by an economic crash caused by Wall Street greed, but it wasn’t until 2011 that there w...
3 Sep 39min
Episode 21: The AI Bubble, with Matt Scherer
This week, Adam talks with Matt Scherer about the AI bubble: what it is, why it's a bubble, what might happen when it pops, and what we can all do to prevent a bailout when it does pop. They also talk...
1 Sep 59min
Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez
This week is a little bit different. Adam talks with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez about a very specific kind of better future: one with way fewer AI data centers. Alli and Matt explain why we should f...
25 Aug 54min
Episode 19: Space Colonization, with Lucian Walkowicz and Erika Nesvold
It's a triple astrophysicist episode! This week, Adam talks with Lucian Walkowicz and Erika Nesvold about why space colonization is a terrible idea, and what would be a better idea for the future. The...
18 Aug 59min
Episode 18: Science Policy, with Alondra Nelson
This week, Adam talks with Alondra Nelson, sociologist and former head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under Joe Biden. They talk about the destruction of scientific researc...
11 Aug 53min
Episode 17: Weapons of Math Destruction, with Cathy O’Neil
This week, Adam’s guest is mathematician, algorithmic auditor, and author Cathy O’Neil. They talk about the uses and misuses of math and computer science, and what led both of them away from academic ...
4 Aug 53min
Episode 16: What is Elon Musk? With Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
This week's guests are historian Quinn Slobodian and writer Ben Tarnoff, authors of the new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Adam talks with them about what Musk is, how he gained so much powe...
28 Juli 56min
