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Designed as an extension of WIRED’s long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

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    From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 14:28


    DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.

    The Circular Bioeconomy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2023 45:46


    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical pollution by finding safer and more sustainable alternatives to the harmful petrochemicals commonly found in everyday products. They discuss decarbonising the chemical industry and building the circular bioeconomy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Humanity, the Economy and Climate Change – Can We Fix Things?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 46:51


    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Sowing the Seeds for a Better Food System

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 40:22


    Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Arnavaz Schatten, director of sustainability at the Berlin-based vertical farming firm InFarm dicuss how vertical farms can massively reduce the environmental impact of our food system. "What could possibly work on Mars could be hugely beneficial on Earth today. We don't need to wait for the Mars scenario. We need this kind of farming on Earth now,” said Arnavaz when speaking at WIRED Impact in November 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Making Better Climate Policy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2023 39:46


    To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively? In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Alyssa Gilbert, the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Alyssa builds real-world impact by connecting relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Case For Climate Led Investing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 44:12


    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. They discuss how Evelina is working to find new ways to deploy capital in ways that will have outsize impact for the climate and enable us to transition to net zero effectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Using Nature for Packaging

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2023 37:06


    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature. It is estimated that UK households throw away a staggering 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year, averaging 66 items per household per week. In this episode, Insiya discusses how her interdisciplinary team is innovating in material science in order to be able to scale products that after use, will be consumed by microbes that are abundant in soil and marine environments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Green Energy Will Be Bigger Than The Internet

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 43:43


    In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we're at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has parallels in the explosive growth of the internet of the past twenty years. They also touch on how we're going to get to net zero, the challenges of getting renewable energy onto complex grids, EV infrastructure, national security and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Migration Is Not The Problem, It Is The Solution

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 42:16


    In our very first episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Gaia Vince, author of the groundbreaking work Adventures In The Anthropocene for which she travelled to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are altering the planet forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable with Mikko Hyppönen

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 31:14


    Connecting the world online has brought enormous benefits but it has also digitised the way in which harmful things can happen. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat's to Mikko Hyppönen, Author of 'If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable', originator of the Hyppönen law and Chief Research Officer at WithSecure to discuss how we can counter the growing onslaught of toxic code thats coursing through the internet looking for vulnerabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft on future of artificial intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2022 32:35


    AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone alongside solving some of the worlds most vexing problems. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat's to Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Reid Hoffman on strategies to grow startups into global brands

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2022 36:47


    In this episode of Foresight, one of Silicon Valley's most storied entrepreneurs and investors, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) and his co-founder of the media company behind Masters of Scale, June Cohen join Foresight to share the different strategies entrepreneurs can use to drive a companies growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Exploring Quantum Computing with Jeremy O'Brien

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2022 41:44


    In this episode, Greg is joined by renowned physicist and CEO of PsiQuantum, Jeremy O'Brien to talk about quantum computing; to understand the Implications of it, the potential applications from drug discovery to the geopolitical impact and explore how the field will develop over the coming years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Beeple on Art as a Subscription

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 30:46


    Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, shares how his latest piece, “Human One,” will continue to update over time—and what that means for how digital art will be viewed in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us with Parag Khanna

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2021 36:30


    In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Parag Khanna, global strategy advisor and author of MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us explore the new age of mass migration and the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Regulating Technology with Marietje Schaake

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 30:23


    In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center explore the rapid growth of big technology and solutions for governments to consider as they look to regulate big technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Atlas of AI with Kate Crawford

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 32:22


    In this episode, we explore how AI is currently perceived and the wider societal impacts of AI that are changing how power is concentrated across the world.  Even though AI infiltrates many aspects of our lives from security, banking and retail through to climate change and politics, most people's vision of AI is that it's abstract and immaterial. In this podcast, we'll discuss how AI is made in a wider sense - the environmental costs, the labour processes and the way that it classifies and shapes the world around us.  Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Reimagining Capitalism with Rebecca Henderson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2021 38:08


    In this episode, Rebecca Henderson, Author of Reimagining Capitalism speaks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief, Greg Williams to discuss how we can develop models that deliver strong economic growth that ensures prosperity and wellbeing for human beings while also protecting and nurturing the planet. “We need to think of ourselves as an integrated world where we can't escape. We have a joint destiny. Hopefully the pandemic will begin to make us think about global cooperation in a different way.” - Rebecca Henderson Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology with Rana el Kaliouby

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2021 25:42


    In a digital world, how do we build empathy into the algorithms that run our lives? WIRED UK's editor, Greg Williams sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of 'Girl Decoded' to discuss how to bring emotional intelligence to technology during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Lonely Century with Noreena Hertz

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021 30:51


    Noreena Hertz, who is a renowned economist and author of The Lonely Century (one of WIRED's picks for the best books of 2020) explores why this is the lonely century, how we got here and what each of us can do to help reduce loneliness for ourselves and our communities. "With one in five adults, saying that they felt lonely often or all of the time, with one in five millennials saying that they didn't have a single friend at all and with 40% of office workers, saying that they felt lonely at work" Hertz felt compelled to explore this loneliness phenomenon.  "As I started looking at this data I realised that we were really, in the midst of a global loneliness crisis, a crisis that was affecting our health or wealth and the state of our democracy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Carissa Véliz on The Power of Privacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021 29:47


    In this episode, Carissa Véliz, associate professor in philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University explores how, in a constantly shifting digital era, we can reclaim our privacy and ensure that data brokers, tech giants and governments collect and use data in ways that consumers approve and are transparent. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Plague Year: America in The Time of Covid with Lawrence Wright

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2021 36:47


    In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winner, writer and journalist, Lawrence Wright reveals the oversights and errors that impacted the response the US had to COVID-19, sharing the wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain the virus. His latest book, “The Plague Year” is his testament to the year of COVID-19 in America. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Good Country Equation with Simon Anholt

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2021 32:01


    WIRED editor Greg Williams and independent policy advisor and bestselling author, Simon Anholt investigate how we can defeat global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, poverty, migration and extremism with 'The Good Country Equation' - his formula for empowering governments and future generations to collaborate. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Rebooting retail with Shimona Mehta

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 29:10


    What new strategies are retailers adopting to stand out online and retain customers during an e-commerce boom that has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic? Shopify's head of EMEA, Shimona Mehta sat down with WIRED editor-in-chief Greg Williams to share how brands are standing out in a crowded e-commerce space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The UK's AI roadmap with Sana Khareghani

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 31:37


    Sana Khareghani, head of the UK government's Office for Artificial Intelligence, talks to WIRED editor Greg Williams to explore the UK government's AI strategy and the role AI will play in helping rebuild the post-Covid economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The road to recovery and life in 2025 with Ben Page

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 33:49


    Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI joins Greg Williams in looking ahead to 2025 and explore future scenarios for business, consumers and society in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    What's the deal with NFTs?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2021 42:53


    Coming up today… we chart the rise and fall of Football Index and explain what the hell is going on with non-fungible tokens.

    The terror and trauma of surviving ICU with Covid-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021 45:48


    Coming up today… the long-term psychological impacts of surviving ICU with Covid-19 and how Slack can actually fix workplace communications.

    Can deepfakes replace The Simpsons?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021 41:37


    Coming up today: we explain why anecdotal benefits of microdosing might only be a placebo effect and find out how a bunch of deepfakes could one day replace the cast of The Simpsons.

    In conversation with DeepMind's Demis Hassabis

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021 23:12


    Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, joins Greg Williams to discuss how AI can impact scientific research, building multidisciplinary teams – and how to combat algorithmic bias Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Why grow grapes in space?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 46:41


    The Uber lawsuit feeding frenzy, how growing grapes in space can make wine better on Earth and the reality of life under Myanmar's internet shutdown.

    Uber has lost. What happens next?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021 53:32


    Coming up today: What Uber's loss in the Supreme Court means for the gig economy, why Facebook was right to ban news in Australia and we go inside the UK's controversial Covid-19 challenge trial

    The origin of the UK variant

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 52:39


    Coming up today: Matt Reynolds delves into the origins of the UK Covid-19 variant, Natasha looks at how Amazon saved Deliveroo from disaster and Amit charts the strange demise of Habbo Hotel

    How QAnon took over yoga

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2021 57:18


    Coming up today: we explain how QAnon took over yoga, look at Google's plan to rewrite the rules of the web and investigate the scammers getting rich from the lockdown puppy boom.

    Shared experiences in future virtual worlds with Herman Narula

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2021 25:27


    Herman Narula, CEO and co-founder of Improbable, joins Greg Williams to explore the dynamics of social connection forged through virtual worlds – and how Covid-19 has impacted these relationships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Is this the end of WeWork?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 52:51


    Coming up today: we delve deep into WeWork's financials, look at what's really happening with Covid-19 in North Korea and get moderately angry about generic startup adverts

    Survival and the future with economist Richard Davies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 32:59


    Richard Davies, economist and author of Extreme Economies joins Greg Williams to share his insight of extreme economies to better understand the long-term impact of Covid-19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Covid-19 nose disaster

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 44:43


    Coming up today: a Covid crisis for sommeliers and bakers, the tragic rise of instant loan apps and that data that shows why April is going to be a tough month for everyone.

    The last days of Parler

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2021 55:55


    Coming up today: we're 500 today so we're all feeling terribly old. Come celebrate

    Our (optimistic) predictions for 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021 57:30


    Coming up today: lucid dreams, lonely penguins and our predictions for 2021

    The great WIRED quiz of 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2020 54:04


    Coming up today: it's the final podcast of 2020, so we're having a party...

    What the Covid-19 vaccines mean for returning to work

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2020 48:41


    Coming up today: How a coronavirus vaccine will affect the return to work, what we learned from F1's biggest crash in recent history, and how will Santa deal with lockdown?

    How to make sure Christmas isn't a Covid-19 disaster

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2020 55:19


    Coming up today: Matt Reynolds lays on a Covid Christmas, Amit explains why Netflix is elbowing in on linear TV, and Matt Burgess explores the issue of work burnout.

    How China crushed Covid-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2020 57:59


    Coming up today: Matt Reynolds dissects China's coronavirus strategy, Amit asks why games are getting shorter, and we discuss the security faux pas you're probably making

    All you need to know about the Covid-19 vaccine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 51:26


    Amit and Matt Reynolds talk us through the Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough and Natasha explores the weird world of pandemic office Christmas parties

    Deepfakes and the infocalypse with Nina Schick

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 26:03


    Greg Williams and Nina Schick explore the rise of fake news and the disturbingly outsized impact this type of misinformation has on how we think and behave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    What we can learn from Africa's pandemic response

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2020 56:51


    Coming up today: Matt Reynolds explains why Africa has been spared the worst of the pandemic, Natasha reveals the middle-class private jet boom and Matt Burgess looks at the worrying rise of police fingerprint scanners

    The nasty rise of stalkerware

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 48:01


    Coming up today: Natasha looks into Uber's robo-firings, Matt Burgess charts the grim rise of stalkerware and Vicki explains why there might not be signs of life on Venus after all

    Big Tech and Covid-19: Power and accountability with Rana Foroohar

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2020 32:02


    Author Rana Foroohar on the heightened power of big tech during the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for stronger regulation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Did Sweden's Covid-19 experiment work?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020 52:24


    Coming up today: Sweden's pandemic gamble; the deepfake bot being weaponised against women; and Natasha tries to put the ‘interesting' in negative interest rates

    The grim demise of the cinema industry

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 46:13


    Coming up today: Natasha investigates the UK's broken housing algorithm, Matt Burgess reveals how universities are snooping on students and Amit witnesses The grim demise of the cinema industry.

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