Entries tagged with: Interview

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42 Minutes into the Future

Last December, at the Humanity+ event in San Francisco, I sat down with filmmaker Adam Ford for an extended interview on a wide variety of subjects, including the participatory panopticon, the possibilities around AI, geoengineering, even the role of art...

Posted on February 20, 2013 2:56 PM

AI Yes, Zombies No

I spoke with Adam Bluestein of Inc. for about an hour a few weeks ago on a wide array of topics. The resulting article is now out: three questions. Ah, media. Here's the last question. Of the three, it has...

Posted on December 11, 2012 11:51 AM

Interview at Singularity 1 on 1

Roughly hour-long interview, wherein I talk about my educational background, humanizing the Singularity concept, and why "meat fetishism" isn't so bad. Here's the info at SingularityWeb as to what's going on here... Notes: I wasn't entirely awake at the outset...

Posted on November 28, 2012 2:02 PM

Momentum Interview

Shortly after the Aspen Environment Forum, Momentum, the journal of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, interviewed me by phone. That interview is now available in the latest issue (Fall 2012) of Momentum (Flash version here, PDF...

Posted on September 28, 2012 2:08 PM

Our tools don’t make us who we are. We make tools because of who we are.

Cyberculture legend RU Sirius, editor at the Acceler8or webzine, interviewed Joel Garreau and myself about the Prevail project. (Short summary for those who missed the earlier post: Prevail is an Arizona State University-sponsored non-profit organization looking to build collaborative knowledge...

Posted on January 3, 2012 10:15 AM

(Inter)View

A while back I was asked by Dan Schneider to do an interview for the website COSMOETICA, a somewhat eclectic arts and culture website that's been around since early 2001, apparently without changing the layout of its pages. Schneider has,...

Posted on May 4, 2011 9:35 AM

Future of Facebook

This past January, I participated in the Future of Facebook project, a set of interviews with various social technology thinkers (including Howard Rheingold, Kevin Kelly, Stowe Boyd, Rita King, and many others) about what the next decade might hold for...

Posted on April 27, 2011 11:03 AM

Geoengineering and Hearsay Culture

A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by David Levine for Hearsay Culture, an internet radio show produced through the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. It was a lengthy, wide-ranging discussion, ostensibly about geoengineering but wandering off...

Posted on March 16, 2011 3:58 PM

Interview: Los Angeles and the Green Future

Earlier this year, the Dutch TV documentary group VPRO Tegenlicht ("Backlight") interviewed me for a program they were doing on the future of Los Angeles. It was a wide-ranging discussion, and a sometimes surreal afternoon (e.g., walking up and down...

Posted on November 9, 2010 3:33 PM

This... is BNN

Canada's Business News Network had me on yesterday to talk about the future of media. You can watch the video here -- it runs about 9 minutes. My favorite moment came about 7 min 40 sec in, when asked to...

Posted on September 23, 2010 11:40 AM

Interview at Futuro e Sostenabilita -- Rome

I spoke recently at an event in Rome entitled "Futuro è Sostenabilita" (Futures and Sustainability, unsurprisingly). After the talk, the organizers took me aside for a brief video interview. Nice, short summation of why thinking about the future is useful....

Posted on August 3, 2010 1:13 PM

Doom & Gloom

IEET's Mike Treder interviewed me on Bloggingheads.TV this week, and the video is now available. It runs about 45 minutes. Egad, it's depressing. Sorry about that. First time I've done one of these, and something that leapt out at me...

Posted on January 30, 2010 11:28 AM

Sprechen sie Deutsch?

When in Vienna a couple of months ago, I was interviewed for their newspaper Die Presse; that interview was finally published (although sadly/fortunately absent any of the pictures they took of me). Futurologe: Die Zukunft passt wie angegossen I suspect...

Posted on January 4, 2010 9:28 AM

On the (Augmented) Media

"Sixth Sense," my interview with NPR's On the Media, talking about augmented reality, went live this weekend. Here's the audio: (MP3 download also available.)...

Posted on November 21, 2009 4:45 PM

Googlicious

About a week ago, I was interviewed by Lovell Dyett of WBZ newsradio in Boston, ostensibly about my Atlantic article. For a variety of reasons (not worth going into), the conversation ended up being primarily about Google, and not as...

Posted on July 29, 2009 2:04 PM

Amplify 09 Pre-Event Interview

I'll be speaking at Amplify 09 in Sydney next month, and in the lead-up to the event, the folks from AMP interviewed me about my presentation topic, and about the future of financial services. I'll be kicking off the event...

Posted on May 22, 2009 9:59 AM

Quick Update -- New Hampshire & Australia [Updated]

Lots going on. Tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, I'll be interviewed live for New Hampshire Public Radio's "Word of Mouth" show; I think it's carried outside of New Hampshire, so if you happen across it (I'll be on 12:08-12:15EDT/9:08-9:15PDT), let me know...

Posted on April 7, 2009 9:17 PM

Resilience and Robots

My second column for Fast Company is now live: "Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Why the Future will be Flexible" is a "let's talk about resilience" piece for people who haven't encountered the argument before. Although it echoes some...

Posted on April 2, 2009 1:10 PM

Talking About the Future on NPR (Updated)

NPR's "Day to Day" said its final farewell today, and the send-off show included a discussion of The Future, featuring author Joel Kotkin talking about the future of the city, and me talking about the future of technology. Day to...

Posted on March 20, 2009 1:26 PM

Exit the Machine

Cameron Reilly, voice of "G'Day World," on Australia's Podcast Network, listened to "The Chorus" -- the scenario I had constructed for the Futurist's Sandbox panel at SXSW -- and was thoroughly disturbed by the story it told. Disturbed enough, it...

Posted on March 21, 2008 2:44 PM

WIRED Interview

Wired's Alexis Madrigal caught me and sat me down for a conversation today at SXSW -- and has already posted the results. Read the interview here -- and be prepared for shocking, shocking language. The road to hell is paved...

Posted on March 10, 2008 3:00 PM

Interview -- "The Future Is Now"

The folks at the video blog "Ryan is Hungry" interviewed me recently on just what it means to try to change the world. Thank you to Lisa Rein for facilitating the connection -- and for providing the space. QuickTime |...

Posted on March 9, 2008 12:59 PM

Political Relationships and Technological Futures

The night before the Singularity Summit, a team from the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence sat me down and interviewed me, asking my thoughts on AI and what was to come. That interview is now available at the SIAI...

Posted on September 26, 2007 6:52 PM

Speak & Spell

I'm in a cluster of Internet radio podcasts this week. Cameron Reilly hosts "G'Day World," a Melbourne-based podcast covering science, technology, politics and media. G'Day World was Australia's first podcast, and has been active since 2004. Cameron invited me to...

Posted on June 26, 2007 9:29 AM

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