The Future Ahead EP67
1) Why AI is our ultimate test and greatest invitation | Tristan Harris 2) Can big tech and privacy coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson
1) Why AI is our ultimate test and greatest invitation | Tristan Harris 2) Can big tech and privacy coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson
1) The linguistic genius of babies | Patricia Kuhl 2) Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets | Saki Mafundikwa 3) A word game to communicate in any language | Ajit Narayanan 4) The enchanting music of sign language | Christine Sun Kim
1) How do personality tests work? | Merve Emre 2) Why you feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it) | Fallon Goodman 3) The psychology of narcissism - W. Keith Campbell 4) How to turn climate anxiety into action | Renée Lertzman 5) Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin
1) Why some people are more altruistic than others | Abigail Marsh 2) Do you really know why you do what you do? | Petter Johansson 3) The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski 4) Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? | Claire Wardle 5) Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1) | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan
1) Fly with the Jetman | Yves Rossy 2) Meet the SixthSense interaction | Pattie Maes + Pranav Mistry 3) Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Vijay Kumar 4) What will future jobs look like? | Andrew McAfee
1) Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington 2) Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | David Epstein 3) What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom 4) What causes hallucinations? - Elizabeth Cox 5) What you need to know about stalkerware | Eva Galperin
1) How motivation can fix public systems | Abhishek Gopalka 2) We have to stop destroying our future | Al Gore 3) A roadmap for young changemakers | Melati Wijsen 4) Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry 5) How AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory | Refik Anadol
1) How to enter flow state | TED-Ed 2) What are you willing to give up to change the way we work? | Martin Danoesastro 3) 2 questions to uncover your passion -- and turn it into a career | Noeline Kirabo 4) How to lead in a crisis | Amy C. Edmondson 5) Your invitation to disrupt philanthropy | Sara Lomelin 6) How reverse mentorship can help create better leaders | Patrice Gordon
1) Solar energy is even cheaper than you think | Jenny Chase 2) The rise of China's homegrown brands — and why they matter | Roger Hu 3) Why joy and flexibility are good for business | Rosie Sargeant 4) How to handle grief at work and beyond | Meredith Wilson Parfet 5) How to finance the future of farming | Berry Marttin 6) How industrial fishing sinks communities | Lamin Jassey
1) My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs 2) The secret messages of Viking runestones | Jesse Byock 3) The ancient, earth-friendly wisdom of Mongolian nomads | Khulan Batkhuyag 4) My long walk across India for women's freedom | Srishti Bakshi 5) How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them | Raymond Wang 6) For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah
1) I let algorithms randomize my life for two years | Max Hawkins 2) My journey mapping the uncharted world | Tawanda Kanhema 3) Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor 4) My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar 5) The African swamp protecting Earth's environment | Vera Songwe
1) Give yourself permission to be creative | Ethan Hawke 2) A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford 3) The left brain vs. right brain myth | Elizabeth Waters 4) When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | R. Alan Brooks 5) How to build a fictional world | Kate Messner 6) The infinite alchemy of storytelling | Zahra Al-Mahdi
1) Star Wars changed visual effects — AI is doing it again | Rob Bredow 2) How can creativity help us heal? A doctor and a cartoonist answer | Amy Baxter and Navied Mahdavian 3) Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation | Yancey Strickler
1) The most powerful untapped resource in health care | Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam 2) My mother's final wish -- and the right to die with dignity | Elaine Fong 3) Why talking to your friends can help you save money | Wendy De La Rosa 4) How to protect your mental well-being online -- from a Gen-Zer | Peachy Liv 5) A strategy for supporting and listening to others | Jeremy Brewer
1) 4 things all great listeners know | TED-Ed 2) Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark 3) What makes a friendship last? | Mona Chalabi 4) Do kids think of sperm donors as family? | Veerle Provoost 5) How to co-parent as allies, not adversaries | Ebony Roberts and Shaka Senghor 6) What is love? | Brad Troeger
1) The tragedy of the one guy who was right about the Trojan Horse | Noah Charney 2) Why did people wear powdered wigs? | Stephanie Honchell Smith 3) Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide | Ümit Kurt 4) The woman who broke the Great Wall of China | Juwen Zhang 5) The tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde | Iseult Gillespie 6) The dark history of arsenic | Neil Bradbury 7) The history of the world according to rats | Max G. Levy 8) A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China | Peter Lorge 9) One of the most controversial medical procedures in history | Jenell Johnson
1) Why great leaders take humor seriously | Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas 2) We need leaders who boldly champion inclusion | June Sarpong 3) The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman - Janell Hobson 4) Great leadership is a network, not a hierarchy | Gitte Frederiksen 5) How great leaders innovate responsibly | Ken Chenault
1) The key to navigating change with confidence | Kristy Ellmer 2) Why joy is a serious way to take action | Pattie Gonia 3) The "hot shot rule" to help you become a better leader | Kat Cole 4) My Big Idea (Ep. 2): Can a boxing gym transform a community? | Percy Tussamba
1) How humans could evolve to survive in space | Lisa Nip 2) The journey to Pluto, the farthest world ever explored - Alan Stern 3) Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth | Natalie Panek 4) Why is NASA sending a spacecraft to a metal world? - Linda T. Elkins-Tanton 5) 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life | James Green 6) What it takes to launch a telescope | Erika Hamden
1) Why are scientists shooting mushrooms into space? | Shannon Odell 2) My search for proof aliens exist | Avi Loeb 3) Why Earth may someday look like Mars | Anjali Tripathi 4) How small are we in the scale of the universe? - Alex Hofeldt 5) The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface | Will Marshall 6) Just how small is an atom? - Jonathan Bergmann