Technology Episodes
How Tech can Democratize Scientific Knowledge with Eric Olson
The vast majority of published scientific literature and new research is hidden behind paywalls. Worse, what few accessible paper…
How Humans Learned to See the Future with Byron Reese
What makes the human mind unique? How do we know there’s a future, and how do we recall the past? In this episode of This Anthro …
Bitcoin and the Cryptocurrency Revolution with Mick Morucci
If you’re alive in 2022 you’ve probably also heard of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency or the blockchain. Whether you’re an active trad…
The Ghost in the Machine is Not Who You Think: Human Labor and the Pa…
Mary Gray is an anthropologist whose work explores how technology informs work, a sense of identity, and human rights. Gray appli…
Life in the Age of Social Media and Smartphones with Daniel Miller an…
Do you have a sense of how much time you spend each day on social media and smartphone? Whether you can live with them or you can…
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of …
Gigaom CEO, publisher and author of "The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity" stops by virt…
Robots, Science Fiction, and the Anthropological Imagination: a Guest…
Special guest podcast! - Adam Gamwell guests on Trending in Education with Mike Palmer. For this week’s extra, Mike is joined by …
Where Qualitative Meets Quantitative Data w/ Delve co-founders LaiYee…
In this episode Adam Gamwell talks with Alex Limpaecher and LaiYee Ho, co-Founders of Delve. While Delve is a qualitative researc…
The Social Life of Robots, pt 2: Sex and Temperament in Three Cyborg …
Part 2 of The Social Life of Robots, with Emma Backe. In this episode hosts Adam Gamwell, Ryan Collins and Emma Backe tackle sex …
The Social Life of Robots, pt 1: Spoiler Alert
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbi…
Tech Ethnography, Data and Social Justice w/ Dr. Tricia Wang
Dr. Tricia Wang sees her work consulting as sitting at the crossroads of data and social justice. As a global tech ethnographer, …
iPhone, Therefore I am.
With the yearly release of new mobile phones, companies like Apple and Samsung have to sell the idea that we need a new device. W…
Up in the Cloud: Computing in the 21st Century (so far)
Episode 28 Season 3 “Up in the Cloud: Computing in the 21st Century (so far)” online now! The idea of a cloud evokes an immateria…