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Technology
Interviews with technologists and scholars of technology about their new books.
October 4, 2026
Obsolete
Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace…
October 1, 2026
The Generative Organization
How Do AI & Innovation Cohabitate? Bryan Cassady is an author, professor, and all-around innovator, whether in book form or in classrooms, real a…
October 1, 2026
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet." But you al…
September 30, 2026
How to Stay Human Forever
Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total catastrophe is…
September 27, 2026
“Ten Percent”
Could humanity’s most powerful invention become a threat to its survival? In this episode of The Survival Curve, we examine the disturbing prospect be…
September 24, 2026
The New Geography of Innovation
Increasingly, it seems like the corporate names that dominate headlines are much more diverse than they used to be. Samsung, TSMC, and SK Hynix. Aliba…
September 22, 2026
The Discursive-Digital Link
We are in a state of crisis. Democracy is under threat, authoritarian politics are on the rise, and digital media—once heralded as emancipatory techno…
September 21, 2026
Library Technical Services
Library Technical Services: Future Forward (Bloomsbury, 2025) edited by Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino looks at the future of technical services …
September 17, 2026
What does the Pope have to teach us about AI?
When I heard that Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” was about “Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,”…
September 16, 2026
Writing Against the Machine
Debates about AI typically deal with its immediate material consequences, from cybersecurity and infrastructure to plagiarism and copyright. Yet most …
September 16, 2026
Billionaire Backlash
In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey sits with Pepper Culpepper, Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Uni…
September 12, 2026
The Carceral Surround
As law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppress dissent, hunt migrants, and target marginalized communities, The Car…
September 7, 2026
Data-Driven Hollywood
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also i…
September 3, 2026
Artificial Historians
I spoke with Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington about her 2026 book Artificial Historians (Routledge, 2025), co-authored with Anne Martin and Lewis Ya…
September 2, 2026
Divination Engines
Since the advent of computers, society has fantasized about conversing with machines. In Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial I…
August 31, 2026
Special Episode
This special episode features a short talk Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, gave at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation in Charlottesville, Virgin…
August 27, 2026
Content Confusion
We often blame social media for the rampant problem of disinformation, but the truth is that mainstream news media is often equally at fault. Not only…
August 23, 2026
Journalism in the Age of AI
What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for? In this episode, Joanne Kuai…
August 20, 2026
Hot Type
Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-…
August 20, 2026
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Does it seem like the business world is in its own version of an arms race to figure out AI? It’s a moment when even a little wisdom, grounded in exp…