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Conversations with leading thinkers on transformative technologies.
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26-04-2024 16:45:44
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I'm a Twilley-head! On this next episode of _policyprompt, @paulsamson and I got to speak to nicolatwilley (you know her from Gastropod) about her EPIC book on the transformative technology of refrigeration (cryosphere). It will give you chills 🥶 cigionline.org/pp/

Poetic thinker Tom Mullaney sits down with Vass Bednar and Paul Samson to upend the Western-centric technology narrative and then provides a more expansive understanding of global history in the digital age. 🎧Listen to episode 5 here: cigionline.org/pp/how-every-c…

Prof. Heidi Tworek (SPPGA; UBC History) speaks on the _policyprompt podcast about the historic dominance and manipulation of media & wireless technology. She explores these in relation to her latest book, “News From Germany.” Listen via Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4gCSANW


Canadians deserve more choices when it comes to where and how they shop. What stands in the way? For EP8 of the Policy Prompt podcast, recorded live at Perfect Books in Ottawa, host Paul Samson talks to Denise Hearn (@denisehearn.bsky) and Vass Bednar about “kayfabe capitalism” and their book “The Big


Policy Prompt hosts Vass Bednar and Paul Samson chat with David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu, authors of “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs” (PenguinRandomHouseCA). They tell the story of how through “creep,” copyright has become a tool for privatizing everything

In EP11, Policy Prompt hosts Vass Bednar and Paul Samson chat with Robert de Neufville, a super forecaster with degrees in government and political science from Harvard and Berkeley, to discuss the ingredients of super forecasting and the crucial role it could play in shaping policy


In EP11, Vass Bednar and Paul Samson are in conversation with super-forecaster🎯, Robert de Neufville. Together, they try to decipher the ingredients of “super forecasting” and the crucial role that forecasting could play in shaping policy decisions. Listen now: cigionline.org/pp/how-to-pred…


Everyone’s got an opinion on AI. But what does the data say? Tomorrow, hosts Paul Samson and Vass Bednar are in conversation with Nestor Maslej from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Stay tuned. cigionline.org/pp/

Policy Prompt episode 13: Measuring and Visualizing AI (grounding decisions in data with Nestor Maslej) is out today! Human-Centered AI means ensuring that no one’s got wool over their eyes — how can data help us do this? cigionline.org/pp/

