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So where do we go from here? How do we build a more inclusive future in tech? A good place to start is by listening to those who have worked to improve equity in Silicon Valley for years. "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech" is a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry.

We're turning the mirror on ourselves to assess diversity, equity, and inclusion at All Turtles. If we believe every company could benefit from open conversations about diversity issues, we need to start with ourselves. "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech" is a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry.

Racial bias has not only worked its way into tech workplaces, it's also in the products we build. How can we mitigate the harm that these biases cause in the products Silicon Valley puts out into the world? "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech" is a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry.

A common excuse tech companies make for their lack of diversity is to blame the “pipeline,” saying there aren't enough qualified candidates from historically excluded groups in the talent pool. Why do tech companies lean on this argument, and what are they missing? Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech" is a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry.

It's time to hop into the way, way back machine. We're examining the history of Silicon Valley to better understand how we got to the current moment of racial inequity in tech. "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech" is a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry. 

Introducing "Culture Fit: Racial Bias in Tech," a 6-part All Turtles Podcast series taking an in-depth look at racial inequalities in the tech industry. In episode 1, people from communities that have long been excluded by Silicon Valley's monoculture share their personal stories and walk through the data on the lack of diversity in tech. When it comes to cognitive biases, what critical errors do our brains make without even realizing it?

Brian Christian is the bestselling author of The Most Human Human and Algorithms to Live By. His latest book is called The Alignment Problem. He's here today to talk about everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix this lack of alignment, including lessons to be learned from a near missile strike. What will the future of algorithmic decision-making look like?

How is digital media impacting our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection? This is an important question to consider, especially as we become increasingly dependent on technology. Our digital dependence has been amplified during the pandemic, as we rely heavily on virtual communications. Today, Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home, joins the podcast to share practical advice for fostering critical thinking while immersed in the digital world.

Products aren't neutral—that's our ethos at All Turtles. Products are built with a point of view that impacts the community of users and plays a role in the development of privacy guidelines. In this episode, All Turtles' three cofounders (Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Jon Cifuentes) discuss community and privacy. Phil is the CEO of mmhmm, and Jessica is the CEO of Spot, so they share their perspectives on building these products with a specific POV.

For startups, securing funding can be a long and bumpy road, and in many ways the pandemic has made it even bumpier. Tellus (an All Turtles product) has still found success in recent months, and today their CEO Tania A. Coke is imparting key lessons from their fundraising process. How did she and her team build new relationships with investors entirely over Zoom?

Mmhmm, our newest All Turtles product, upgrades video calls with beautiful backdrops and rooms, the designs for which had to be put together in record time. Allie Packard, our fearless Senior Designer, is here to share how she and her team went from the earliest mmhmm sketches to the product we see today. How did they create such dynamic and varied imagery while staying true to the brand?

Mmhmm is our latest All Turtles product, which we built to make video calls more efficient—and more fun. After our podcast's summer hiatus, we're eager to share how we spun out this product at breakneck speed during the pandemic. Mmhmm's suite of tools make any Zoom or Google Meet something to look forward to, with beautiful backdrops and rooms, immersive recordings, and collaboration abilities. As Phil says, why try to just match IRL experiences when you could make them infinitely better? 

When you ask Amazon's Alexa to complete a task, that voice interaction is possible because of the work of people like Noelle Silver. She wrote some of Alexa's earliest skills, and as her career took her from Amazon to Microsoft, she saw an opportunity to launch the AI Leadership Institute. On today's podcast, she covers her current work as the VP of Digital Technology at NPR, the relationship between AI and art, and how she's hoping to use AI to help make journalists' jobs easier.   Show notes Noelle Silver is the VP of Digital Technology at NPR. Jake Ward interviewed Noelle about AI and art, and we featured Jake on an earlier episode of the All Turtles Podcast.    We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Product design is collaborative, but with extended shelter-in-place guidelines, teams have had to reassess what it means to work together. Figma is one of the best tools for product creators working remotely, but even before we were relegated to our homes, Figma had become essential to us at All Turtles because of its intuitive features. Figma's Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto joins us today to walk through how they continue to iterate on the creation of indispensable tools.    Show notes Sho Kuwamoto is the Director of Product at Figma. Figma has its own guidelines for remote design process. Figma recently raised its series D.     We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

With campuses closed and classes relegated to Zoom sessions, COVID-19 has had an indelible impact on education. Scoodle, a UK-based learning platform that connects students with tutors, is ensuring students can still get the support they need. On today's episode, Scoodle's cofounder and CEO Ismail Jeilani is sharing how this pandemic has brought remote learning to the forefront of education, and why he wants to help teachers achieve rock-star status for the work they do.   Show notes Ismail Jeilani is the cofounder and CEO of Scoodle. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone is one of Scoodle's backers. Ismail's experience as a tutor inspired him to build Scoodle.     We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

What do you do when a global pandemic wipes out your business model as an early-stage startup? If you're Sebastian Müller, cofounder of Lanterne, you quickly pivot to create a product to help people stay safe as coronavirus spreads. That's how he and his team began building Crowdless, an app that provides real-time information on the crowdedness of supermarkets to help with social distancing. Today Sebastian is sharing Lanterne's approach to meeting the world's most pressing needs on rapid timelines.   Show notes Sebastian Müller is the cofounder of Lanterne, which builds crisis technology. Crowdless is an app that tells you how crowded supermarkets are so you can social distance effectively.    We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Where did the conspiracy that “Bill Gates engineered coronavirus” come from? This is the type of query that Renée DiResta investigates as the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, where she tracks the spread of misinformation (and disinformation) online. She's been monitoring the dissemination of narratives about the emergence of COVID-19, how it's treated, and how the government has responded, and has an explanation for why there's so much speculation at every level.  Show notes Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory.  Renée follows epidemiologists and others on Twitter who share verifiable information about COVID-19.   We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

And now for an episode that was recorded pre-COVID-19. Today, David Yakobovitch is joining the show to share his perspectives on AI and the future of work. David hosts the HumAIn Podcast, a show about artificial intelligence, data science, and developer education. He's also a Principal Data Scientist at Galvanize, a technology learning company that works with startups and large enterprises on deploying data science and AI solutions.    Show notes David is a Principal Data Scientist at Galvanize, a technology learning company. David is also the host of the HumAIn podcast.

George Arison is the founder and CEO of Shift, an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. George has led his company through the first phase of their response to the coronavirus pandemic, which involved creating a program to reduce prices for healthcare workers. The pandemic's economic impact has also meant that they've had to furlough some employees. Today, George is sharing how he's navigating tough decisions while managing a company during a global crisis.  Show notes George Arison is the founder and CEO of Shift. Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. George spoke to Protocol about how he's been managing Shift during this global pandemic.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Over the past couple weeks on the podcast, we've talked about COVID-19's impact on the future of work and the future of health. Today, we're delving a little deeper into how we can come back from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which Phil is calling “the great unpause.” Why are “recession” and “recovery” ill-fitting terms to describe our current situation? What does hitting the pause button mean for different sectors of the economy, and what will it take to reset?   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco 

The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing the way we think about and manage health. We'd already suspected that the future of work and the future of health were intrinsically linked, but this pandemic has shown how the trajectory of one is fully determining the course of the other. Today on the podcast, we're discussing a 3-phase framework for thinking through how we'll make it to the other side of this together.  We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

COVID-19 has thrown so much into uncertainty, including the way we work. With shelter-in-place regulations falling over increasing swathes of the population, companies who have the capacity to instruct employees to work from home have done so. Due to the global economic downturn that the pandemic has brought forth, it's safe to say that COVID-19 is having a massive impact on the future of work. Today, we'll discuss the nuances of that impact.     We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

A single patient's healthcare data is likely stored in different silos. It can therefore be difficult to assemble a complete picture of health when old records, more recent information, and regularly updated stats from a smartwatch should all be taken into account. Enter Seqster, a Saas solution for compiling healthcare data and making it easily accessible. Ardy Arianpour, cofounder and CEO of Seqster, joins the podcast today to talk about how his product is shaping the future of health.  Show notes Ardy Arianpour is the cofounder and CEO of Seqster. Seqster is a SaaS solution for collecting, owning, and sharing healthcare data.     We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Have you ever had an online conversation with someone only to realize later that you'd been talking to a bot? Computers are reshaping our idea of what it means to be human. Today on the podcast, author Brian Christian explores how computers reveal our most human capabilities and other themes from his book The Most Human Human. He also discusses the book he wrote with Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By, about how computer algorithms can untangle human questions. Show notes Brian Christian is an author and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. The Most Human Human is a book Brian wrote to explore the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Brian co-wrote Algorithms to Live By with Tom Griffiths about how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.    We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

On prior episodes of this podcast, we've discussed Carrot, a company that's pioneering the future of work and health by providing global fertility benefits to employers. Because there's so much to discuss, we made a whole new podcast for Carrot called Baby Steps. It's about the many diverse paths people take in the pursuit of parenthood, and we're playing the first episode of Baby Steps here for you today. If you like what you hear, search for Baby Steps wherever you get your podcasts. Show notes Baby Steps is a podcast from Carrot Fertility about the diverse paths people take to pursue parenthood. Carrot is the leading global fertility benefits company for employers. Leslie Schrock, author of Bumpin, discusses the concept of trimester zero, the period of preparation before any fertility journey begins.    We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

How is the internet making people more or less seen? Researcher Mary Gray's new book Ghost Work explores the lives of people who are paid to train AI. These workers are contributing to the AI we use every day, but they're often left out of conversations about how this technology is evolving. Mary asserts that AI is not replacing or eliminating work; it's dismantling full-time employment. She shares how and why that's happening in today's episode.   Show notes Conversation with Mary Gray Mary is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft.  She's also an E.J. Safra Center for Ethics fellow. Mary is a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass is Mary's new book.    We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco 

Designers and medical professionals are both key to building the future of health. Dr. Kyra Bobinet is working within that intersection by using neuroscience to help people design healthy lives. She's an MD and the CEO of engagedIN, a neuroscience-based design firm. Both design and behavioral change are iterative processes, and Dr. Bobinet has experience applying behavioral strategies as a corporate executive to scale the impact of her programs.    Show notes Conversation with Dr. Kyra Bobinet Dr. Kyra Bobinet is an MD MPH.  EngagedIN is a neuroscience-based design firm. Dr. Bobinet is the CEO. Dr. Bobinet wrote Well-Designed Life, a book about the intersection of health and design.    We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Sita Magnuson has the spirit of an entrepreneur and the heart of an artist. She's been able to make a career for herself by channeling both of these strengths into cofounding initiatives like Fort Future, Dpict, and Easthampton Co.Lab. Today on the podcast, she shares her thoughts on process design and the creative methods she uses to generate discussion and productivity in a workplace.    Show notes Conversation with Sita Magnuson Sita is an artist and entrepreneur who works in the spaces of multimodal, multi-sensory experimentation in service of mutual learning. Fort Future is a space for intergenerational curiosity in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Dpict is a facilitation firm that specializes in process design, visualization, and collaborative environments.  Easthampton Co.Lab is a membership-based coworkspace in Easthampton, Massachusetts.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

What does it mean to democratize DNA? Shirley Wu is answering that question as the Director of Health Product at 23andMe. 23andMe's mission is to pioneer the future of health with their genetic testing technology, and to help people understand, access, and benefit from the human genome. They've had to stay ahead of the quickly evolving pace of the genomics industry, so the story of their work provides valuable lessons for any entrepreneur looking to build a lasting company in a fast-paced world.   Show notes Conversation with the Shirley Wu (0:37) Shirley Wu is the Director of Health Product at 23andMe. 23andMe is a personal genomics and biotechnology. 23andMe provides a wide variety of information for customers in their genetic reports.    Listener question “Could you have [insert name here] as a guest on your podcast?”   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

In many ways, the future of fertility is closely tied to the future of work, as companies determine how to best ensure that their employees are holistically supported. Employers have a unique and important role to play when it comes to access to fertility care, especially in the U.S. where 150 million people get their health coverage through employers. Carrot is a fertility benefits company solving the growing problem of access to inclusive fertility care.  Show notes Conversation with Tammy Sun (0:35) Tammy is the cofounder and CEO of Carrot.  Carrot is a global fertility benefits company.  More females above the age of 30 are giving birth than females below the age of 30. Carrot has been global from the start and is operational in over 40 countries today.     Listener question From Leah via email: “I recently listened to another podcast - Tales of Silicon Valley - which talked about the 10's of thousands of people who are employed as contract workers by Facebook and other companies to act as 'human filters' for social media sites. These individuals are exposed to horrific images repeatedly all day, every day in order to keep the sites clean and safe for public consumption. I was greatly disturbed by the realization that in order to protect me from seeing these images, a subset of the population has the grueling task of looking at photos posted by the worst of humanity and clicking ‘Ignore, Delete, or Escalate.'  I immediately thought back to the conversation Phil and Brittney had during their SciFi-preneurship - another amazing All Turtles podcast series! They spoke about The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin where all the world is at peace except for the suffering of one child. Since learning about these human filters, I've struggled with the moral dilemma: There are people suffering so that I can enjoy looking at family and friends' pictures and posts. I see these human filters as necessary 'for the greater good' because AI is not advanced enough to protect the public- however, this is definitely a role where AI can be a force for good. My question is this: Do you think we'll ever get there? Will technology become so skilled it can accurately block gruesome, inappropriate, hateful images and speech? And if so, how long will it take? The narrator Danny Fortson didn't seem to think it was possible.”   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Sift is a news therapy app that unpacks contentious topics so you can feel better equipped to keep up with the headlines. Today on the podcast, we're giving you an audio taste of one of Sift's topics—climate change—so you can hear what Sift is all about. Listen as we walk you through the impact climate change is having on our mental health. Show notes Download Sift in the app store. Dr. Thomas Doherty is a psychologist based in Portland, OR. Dr. Lise Van Susteren is a psychiatrist and environmental activist in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Kyle Whyte is a professor and environmental activist at Michigan State University. In the episode: Greta Thunberg speaking about global warming at the World Economic Forum. The American Psychological Association's report on growing climate concerns in the U.S. Solastalgia is a term coined by environmental activist Glenn Albrecht to describe the mental or existential distress caused by environmental change. Coverage of the report from the National Farm Medicine Center that the suicide rate for farmers in the Upper Midwest more than doubled the national average following a record drought in the U.S. in the 1980s. We want to hear from you: Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco 

Terah Lyons is the Executive Director of the Partnership on AI, a consortium that aims to establish best practices for AI systems and to educate the public about AI. They're working to explore AI's impact on the world, including on the labor market and the economy. Before this role, Terah worked in the office of the CTO for the Obama administration, but she asserts that public policy alone is not enough. Proactive attention and planning are needed to support economies of the future. Show notes Conversation with the Terah Lyons (0:50) Terah Lyons worked in the office of the CTO for the Obama administration. Terah is the founding Executive Director of the Partnership on AI.  The Partnership on AI is working on an initiative focused on transparency in ML.   Listener question From Ari via email: "In a recent podcast, a listener asked if there was ongoing research into algorithmic bias in AI. I thought this was an interesting example of biased AI in the incarceral system: Even in states working to eliminate the role of cash bail, such as New Jersey, a past Failure to Appear can mean the difference between confinement and freedom. In 2017, the state virtually abolished its cash bail system, but defendants are rated by a tool that uses nine factors to evaluate a person's statistical ‘risk' for failing to appear in court or being involved in ‘new criminal activity.' In each of those categories, prior FTAs add significant ‘risk' to a person's score. What do you think of this?” We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

We interrupt our normal programming for some brief announcements on upcoming changes to the podcast. We're transitioning from weekly episodes to bi-weekly in order to accommodate some exciting new projects. But stay subscribed, and stay tuned, because we have some incredible guests slated for our future episodes. See you in two weeks!   We want to hear from you: Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Spot is an All Turtles product that's ushering in the future of work by using technology to build better environments for employees. It's a software solution for tackling harassment and discrimination in the workplace with an AI reporting tool. We've discussed Spot on the podcast before, but today, Spot's CEO Jessica Collier is talking to design lead Micah Rivera and editorial lead Kelly Chen about how they designed, built and launched a new harassment training feature.  Show notes Conversation with the Spot team (0:43) Jessica Collier is the cofounder of All Turtles and CEO of Spot. Micah Rivera is the Lead Designer at Spot.  Kelly Chen manages editorial content for Spot. Spot is an All Turtles product that provides workplace harassment training and anonymous reporting.  Spot's new training new sexual harassment training combines inclusive scenarios, insightful survey questions, and anonymous reporting.    Listener question "Any plans to mention on the podcast that October is Cyber Security Awareness Month?"   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Dr. Arun Wiita's lab at UCSF uses emerging technologies to discover new treatments for blood cancers. Today on the podcast, he shares his insights on the future of cancer research, including why he thinks the next big advancement will involve modifying DNA as a way to improve early detection. Machine learning is starting to play a bigger role in the interpretation of the vast data sets of DNA sequences, but hear why Dr. Wiita says that “AI-aha” moments are still a bit of myth in his line of work.  Show notes Conversation with Arun Wiita (0:43) Dr. Arun Wiita is an Associate Professor at UCSF. Dr. Wiita's lab at UCSF is working on discovering new targets to treat blood cancers.  Listener question From Surangkana via email: “I would like to know if your company is in the stock market yet? I am interested in investing in your company stocks.”   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Unreasonable Group works with entrepreneurs who are offering solutions to seemingly intractable challenges. Today on the podcast, their Head of Creative Partnerships, Dave Smith, is talking about how they approach some of the world's biggest problems. Their cohort of founders is tackling everything from clean energy to 3D scanning and big data for healthcare. And it's emerging technology like AI that's helping entrepreneurs develop these innovative new solutions.

As tools like Figma, Slack, and more are allowing employees to stay connected from disparate locations, the concept of the remote workforce has become increasingly attractive. With the benefits of added flexibility for employees and opportunities to hire people from around the world, some companies have constructed entirely remote teams. Octane AI is one example; their VP of Product Megan Berry joins the podcast today to talk about why she thinks the future of work is remote.

AI has already made its way into in the medical field, and today, Dr. Eric Topol gives us a sense of the many ways in which medical professionals are already taking advantage of this technology. Dr. Topol is a cardiologist and the author of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again. He acknowledges AI's security risks, but is optimistic for the future of health that AI is helping to usher in. Show notes Conversation with Dr. Topol (0:50) Dr. Eric Topol is a cardiologist. Dr. Topol is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute.  You can find Dr. Topol's book here: Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again. We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

For some, tongue twisters are simply amusing ways to pass the time, but Dairien Boyd and other designers at All Turtles knew that these verses had value: they could help people practicing a new language perfect their pronunciation, or give someone working on public speaking skills a way to work on their enunciation. Dairien and his team built Twisty Tongue as a fun game that anyone can play, and on this episode, he articulates his design philosophy for creating this app and others. Show notes Conversation with Dairien Boyd (0:52) Dairien Boyd is All Turtles' Principal Designer. Twisty Tongue is a tongue twister app for playing tongue twister games and practicing English language pronunciation.    Figma is a collaborative design tool that Dairien and the All Turtles designers love to use.    We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

We may never get to use a crystal ball to tell us where the world is headed, but Amy Webb's futurist analysis might be the next best thing. She's a quantitative futurist, founder of the Future Today Institute, and author of The Big Nine. Her work is rooted in measurement and data; her models determine emerging signals and track their velocity over time to understand plausible futures. She focuses on changes within science and technology, and joins the podcast today to share some of her insights.    Show notes Conversation with Amy Webb Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist. Amy founded the Future Today Institute, which helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures.  Amy's is the author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.  We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming. After our summer SciFi-preneuership series, we're ready to launch season 3 of the All Turtles Podcast. Today we're introducing the new season and its themes: the future of work and the future of health. So much of our lives are maladapted for the human experience, and we want to talk about how to build products to help improve people's physical, mental, and financial health. Stay tuned for season 3.   Show notes What we did this summer The SciFi-preneuership series with Brittney Gallagher is about the ways in which science fiction inspires people to create the kind of future they want. Spot is developing harassment training.   Season 3 themes The future of health, the future of work, and entrepreneurs building the future with tech like AI.   Tune in next week The first official episode next week will feature an interview with futurist Amy Webb.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Dune, a novel set 20,000 years in the future, is a sweeping saga that touches on themes ranging from the consequences of AI (and the lack of AI) to the values of environmentalism. This is the last episode of SciFi-preneurship, so we're closing out with a discussion reflecting on all the works we've featured. Thanks for joining our conversations about the works that have inspired people to build better futures.    Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher  Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology.  Dune is a novel by Frank Herbert published in 1965.   Discussion with Dan Novy  Dan Novy is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab.    We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Star Trek is one of the most iconic shows to ever grace television, not just for its contributions to the genre of science fiction, but also for its inspirational message about the potential for technology to build a positive future. There are many examples of technologies in the show inspiring actual tech that exists today. We dive into some of those examples (along with other illustrations of Star Trek's impact) today on the podcast with Veronica Belmont and Joe Betts-LaCroix.   Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher  Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology.  Snow Crash is a novel by Neal Stephenson that takes us into the Metaverse, where a computer virus also has the capacity to harm people in the physical world.   Conversation with Veronica Belmont Veronica is a Product Manager at Adobe Spark and host of the Sword and Laser podcast.   Conversation with Joe Betts-LaCroix Joe is the inventor of the world's smallest computer, and his work in biophysics aims to optimize medical research priorities in the U.S.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Ursula K. Le Guin's influence on science fiction is so significant that we dedicated two episodes of this series to her work, as we had so many guests who wanted to talk about her impact. Le Guin's writing helped expand visions of what society could be, which provided meaningful inspiration for today's guests, Dr. Christine Corbett Moran (cybersecurity engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab) and Dan Novy (postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab).    Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher  Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology.  Snow Crash is a novel by Neal Stephenson that takes us into the Metaverse, where a computer virus also has the capacity to harm people in the physical world.   Conversation with Dr. Christine Corbett Moran Dr. Moran is a cybersecurity engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.   Conversation with with Dan Novy  Dan is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab.    We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's most influential writers. Her science fiction philosophy, which underscores our entire SciFi-preneurship podcast series, is that science fiction is meant to be descriptive rather than predictive. A hallmark of her writing is that it tends to be more inclusive of different gender and sexual identity expressions than many of her contemporaries' work, allowing for a broader representation of characters with whom readers can identify.   Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher  Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology.  Snow Crash is a novel by Neal Stephenson that takes us into the Metaverse, where a computer virus also has the capacity to harm people in the physical world.   Conversation with Veronica Belmont Veronica is a Product Manager at Adobe Spark and host of the Sword and Laser podcast.   Conversation with Sophia Brueckner Sophia is artist and computer scientist.She is also a professor at the University of Michigan where she teaches Sci-Fi Prototyping, a class on building prototypes inspired by sci-fi and technology ethics.      Conversation with Emily Dean Emily is a writer and director whose 2018 film Andromeda portrays an android who gains sentience.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

As technologists continue to build the future, what laws should govern the things they create? Ethical guidelines for technology are essential; Isaac Asmiov presented one version of what they may look like when he introduced the Three Laws of Robotics in his collection of short stories I, Robot. This work of science fiction inspired many, including the three guests on today's episode: Emily Dean, Peter Eckersley, and Joe Betts-LaCroix.   Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher  Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology.  Snow Crash is a novel by Neal Stephenson that takes us into the Metaverse, where a computer virus also has the capacity to harm people in the physical world.   Conversation with Emily Dean Emily is a writer and director whose 2018 film Andromeda portrays an android who gains sentience.   Conversation with Peter Eckersley Peter is the Director of Research at the Partnership on AI.   Conversation with Joe Betts-LaCroix Joe is the inventor of the world's smallest computer, and his work in biophysics aims to optimize medical research priorities in the U.S.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

In the Metaverse, a shared virtual reality space, a character wrestles with a computer-crashing virus that also causes harm in the real world. Thus begins Snow Crash, a Neal Stephenson novel that, when written in 1992, described futuristic systems that eventually became reality. Snow Crash's impact is so significant that this episode has a record number of guests who wanted to discuss it: Dr. Christine Corbett Moran, Veronica Belmont, Peter Eckersley, Joe Betts-LaCroix, and Sophia Brueckner.   Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher  Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology.  Snow Crash is a novel by Neal Stephenson that takes us into the Metaverse, where a computer virus also has the capacity to harm people in the physical world.   Conversation with Dr. Christine Corbett Moran Dr. Moran is a cybersecurity engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.   Conversation with Veronica Belmont Veronica is a Product Manager at Adobe Spark and host of the Sword and Laser podcast.   Conversation with Peter Eckersley Peter is the Director of Research at the Partnership on AI.   Conversation with Joe Betts-LaCroix Joe is the inventor of the world's smallest computer, and his work in biophysics aims to optimize medical research priorities in the U.S.   Conversation with Sophia Brueckner Sophia is artist and computer scientist.She is also a professor at the University of Michigan where she teaches Sci-Fi Prototyping, a class on building prototypes inspired by sci-fi and technology ethics.      We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

In 2019, we're 35 years beyond 1984; at this current juncture, we can see just how predictive George Orwell's novel turned out to be, and which dystopian elements we've managed to avoid (so far). This seminal work of science fiction provided a road map of exactly where not to go when building the future, and on today's episode, Emily Dean and Dr. Christine Corbett Moran explain how it impacted the work they do today to shape the kind of future they want.   Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher  Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology.  1984 is a novel by George Orwell that depicts a dystopian future in which Big Brother monitors citizens' every move in order to maintain government control.   Conversation with Dr. Christine Corbett Moran Dr. Moran is a cybersecurity engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.   Conversation with Emily Dean Emily is a writer and director whose 2018 film Andromeda portrays an android who gains sentience. We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco 

The impact of the The Matrix on science fiction is difficult to overstate, but beyond the genre itself, it also deeply affected the viewers whose worldviews were made askew. Three of those viewers are featured in today's episode to talk about their reactions to the film and the ways in which it contributed to the work they do now: writer/director Emily Dean, Partnership on AI research director Peter Eckersley, and MIT Media Lab's Dan Novy. Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology. The Matrix portrays a version of the future in which the main character's version of reality is revealed to be a computer simulation powered by human bodies.   Conversation with Peter Eckersley Peter is the director of research at the Partnership on AI. Previously, Peter worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.   Conversation with with Dan Novy Dan is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab.   Conversation with Emily Dean Emily is a writer and director whose 2018 film Andromeda portrays an android who gains sentience.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

SciFi-preneurship is a new summer series from the All Turtles Podcast that examines how science fiction inspires people to create things that impact our lives today. In SciFi-preneurship, we're using an expanded definition of entrepreneurship: we don't just mean Silicon Valley startup founders; we're talking to people who make things, especially things that are shaping our future. First up, Dan Novy, who earned his PhD from the MIT Media Lab, talks about H.P. Lovecraft and the impact of his writing.   Show notes Intro with Phil Libin and Brittney Gallagher Brittney Gallagher hosts Digital Culture LA, a show about future science and technology. Episode 32 of the All Turtles Podcast, Galaxy Quest, served as the inspiration for the SciFi-preneurship series. Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson defines entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.”   Discussion with Dan Novy on H.P. Lovecraft's work Dan Novy is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab. The writings of H.P. Lovecraft have had a profound impact on science fiction and the way people envision the future. The Call of Cthulhu is one of Lovecraft's most famous short stories. We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

How can good design ensure that a product is as inclusive as possible? Micah Rivera, lead designer for the All Turtles product Spot, has extensive experience in accessible, inclusive product design. From the psychology of color to the use of body language in character illustrations, he draws from a range of tools that he's eager to share. He emphasizes the importance of checking accessibility as you build a product, and he explains the visual metaphor of the hot air balloon in Spot. Show notes Conversation with Micah Rivera (1:02) Micah is the lead designer for Spot, an AI reporting bot that makes it safer for employees to speak up about harassment and discrimination in the workplace, and makes it easier for HR to follow up, even on anonymous reports. To develop the character illustrations, Micah worked closely with senior visual designer Carlos Rocafort IV.   SciFi-preneurship Our new podcast series, SciFi-preneurship, is all about the ways in which science fiction inspires people to create the kind of future they want. Tune in next week for the first of nine episodes.   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco