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Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Guru Madhavan, Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs at the National Academy of Engineering, about his recent book,Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World(W. W. Norton &
Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
An interview with Max Bennett
Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
An interview with Matthew H. Hersch
Robert Willim, "Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary" (Bristol UP, 2024)
An interview with Robert Willim
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
An interview with Thomas S. Mullaney
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
An interview with Ignacio Cofone
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
An interview with Anita R. Gohdes
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
A Discussion with Gabriele Mazzini
On Bloomsbury's "Object Lessons" Series: A Discussion with Christopher Schaberg
Object Lessonsis a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovati
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner is the author of at least three - or four depending on whether you count a work of parody - books on writ