Posts tagged with podcast

Sam Harris and Gavin de Becker: Living With Violence

2017-08-28 podcast sam-harris parenting

Sam Harris speaks with Gavin de Becker about the primacy of human intuition in the prediction and prevention of violence.

This American Life #622 - Who You Gonna Call?

2017-08-25 podcast

Bob Fass Wait a minute, wait a minute. Before you say goodbye, give us like -- it takes about 20 minutes to trace a call, and you haven't been on the phone with us for three minutes yet.

Suicidal Caller You telling me the truth?

Bob Fass I'm telling you the truth. It takes about 20 minutes to trace a call. I know, because we tried to --

Suicidal Caller Why does it take so long?

Bob Fass Because the telephone company is more messed up than your life is, and they're not about to commit suicide.

Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole

2017-07-07 podcast longnow bruce-sterling

Bruce Sterling poetically throwing some cold water on the singularity at the Long Now. "the singularity is a place where matters that would be of great importance and interest to futurists become impossible to write about" "the idea that technology is being built too fast for straight people to comprehend ...kind of lacks a business model"