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Technology
Interviews with technologists and scholars of technology about their new books.
June 2, 2026
Unlimited
Around 2016, buoyed by so-called data kranti ("data revolution"), an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the fir…
May 30, 2026
The Master Algorithm
In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge …
May 26, 2026
Learning Languages on Social Media
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee about her new book Social Media and Language Learning: …
May 16, 2026
Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered the markets for capital, labor, supplies, and distribution in ways that underm…
May 15, 2026
Reparative Media
Can producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In Reparat…
May 15, 2026
AI and Digital Leadership
AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archives, and Museums for the Future (Bloomsbury, 2026) explores how galleries, libraries, archives…
May 11, 2026
Counter-Revolutionary Puzzles with Guillermo Badia
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Guillermo Badia. Dr Guillermo Badia is a philosopher working in logic. His research interests are logic in compute…
May 11, 2026
The Rise of the Internet
We were joined by Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and talked about how the arrival of the Internet remade li…
May 9, 2026
Recovering the Internet
Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)is an indictment of how Big Tech cloaks …
May 6, 2026
Feminism. Art. Capitalism.
Can art change the contemporary world? In Feminism, Art, Capitalism Angela Dimitrakaki, a Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the univ…
May 3, 2026
Media Rurality
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sys…
April 27, 2026
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State
Stephen Sims’ New Atlantis essay examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the structure and authority of the modern nation-state. He argues th…
April 27, 2026
Empire of AI
In this episode, host Joe Williams talks to tech journalist Karen Hao, whose recent book Empire of AI sheds light on the inner workings of AI giants t…
April 23, 2026
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation
When Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory automation through its extraordinary new attractions. In Disn…
April 22, 2026
Powered by Smart
Powered by Smart traces the techno-cultural evolutions that made artificial intelligence feel more familiar than futuristic. From wearables and stream…
April 22, 2026
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny interviews Jacob Siegel, writer, Army veteran, and author of The Informatio…
April 20, 2026
On the Future of Species
Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are alive, clothing has opinions and all human knowledge fits into a s…
April 19, 2026
Games User Research Cookbook
This book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to Games User Research (GUR). Blending theory and hands-on experience, it walks readers through m…
April 16, 2026
Automata
Automata examines how AI and advanced robotics are rapidly surpassing human abilities in fields once thought uniquely ours – from playing chess to dis…
April 13, 2026
The AI Con
In this episode, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss the looming social, cultural, and knowledge catas…