by Hearsay Culture Network | Jan 8, 2023
Ethics, Oaths, and Orwell in Technological Society As the Silicon Valley maxim goes: “move fast and break things.” Should that still be the mantra today? This ethic, and its ramifications, are baked into the global technological landscape, so it is a timely motif for...
by Hearsay Culture Network | Sep 28, 2022
Rebecca Giblin of Melbourne Law School and Boing Boing founder and writer Cory Doctorow discuss the “plight of creative labor” To many of us, big businesses and corporations have an outsized influence on our lives. Recently, the technology giants have stepped into...
by Hearsay Culture Network | May 2, 2022
Founder and Editor-at-Large of The Markup, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Julia Angwin How does the press hold technology companies, and technology itself, accountable? One way to do this is with what Julia Angwin’s The Markup calls the scientific “The Markup Method:” “We...
by Hearsay Culture Network | Dec 24, 2021
Listen to Esther Dyson and Dave’s conversation about the post-COVID landscape and its impact on communities. We can all see the disruption and tragedy that COVID has brought to our lives since 2020…but what about the good it has brought? Esther Dyson, an economics...
by Hearsay Culture Network | Sep 16, 2016
Bitcoin, a digital currency with no central bank, has changed world finance. This early conversation explores the powerful, erratic effects of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin on global economics. Based on David Golumbia’s book, The Politics of Bitcoin, this Hearsay...
