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Today on the show, we bring you a special episode from the Understood feed at CBC podcasts. It's an excerpt from a series called Who Broke the Internet hosted by Cory Doctorow. The four part series details his criticisms on the state of the modern internet and what we can do about it. From his conversations with Eric Corly the publisher of 2600, an iconic hacker magazine, best known under his hacker name Emmanuel Goldstein, to Clive Thompson a tech and culture writer to Steven Levy the author of "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives" this excerpt digs into how search engines started.You can listen to more of the podcast here.Related episodes:The hack that almost broke the internet (Apple / Spotify)For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
It's 2025. President Trump is back, and the richest men in tech are on stage with him. What started as a dysfunctional internet run by tech giants, and enabled by failed legislation, has morphed into something even more dangerous: what economist Yanis Varoufakis calls technofeudalism. Host Cory Doctorow traces how U.S. trade pressure dragged Canada into America's broken internet model, how shortsighted attempts to make big platforms behave came back to haunt us during the worst wildfire season in Canadian history, and offers up a solution for how to save the internet, asking: in a post-free trade world, why are we still playing by American rules?Guests in this episode include Yanis Varoufakis, Delaney Poitras, Michael Geist, Pam Samuelson, Clive Thompson, Ed Zitron, and Emmanuel Goldstein. Archival recordings feature James Moore.
American antitrust laws were designed to stop companies from wielding the power of kings. But in the 1970s, a legal scholar named Robert Bork convinced Washington to ignore those laws. Host Cory Doctorow traces how Bork's influence gave digital giants like Amazon a decades-long free pass to dominate markets, crush competitors, exploit their own business clients, and treat users like hostages — and how, after 40 years of inaction, former FTC chair Lina Khan took on the fight to rein in monopoly power. Guests in this episode include Michael Wiesel, Lina Khan, and Clive Thompson. Archival recordings feature Robert Bork.
Google Search was the gold standard — a product born in a dorm room during the internet's early, idealistic era. But when internal emails surfaced they revealed a deeper conflict inside the company: was Google making Search worse, on purpose, to boost ad revenue? Google says its changes are all about benefiting users. Critics say it's all part of a bigger pattern — one that host Cory Doctorow calls enshittification: the slow, deliberate decay of platforms in the name of profit.Guests in this episode include Ed Zitron, Emmanuel Goldstein, Clive Thompson, and Steven Levy.
In this episode of Soar Financially, Clive Thompson, a retired Swiss wealth manager with 50 years of experience, reveals the real strategy behind a potential gold revaluation reset. Could the U.S. use a massive gold price reset to erase its debt?We explore the brewing battle between Trump and Powell, the Fed's next move, and why Jerome Powell's sudden exit could spark a gold and equity market boom. From Basel III and COMEX deliveries to Bretton Woods 3.0 and dollar devaluation, Clive connects the dots between central banks, debt relief, and gold manipulation.#Gold #Powell #debtcrisis
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been edged out of the headlines this past week, or so, by the administration's current flirtation with a constitutional crisis. But the DOGE team is still busy. One project on the office's agenda, originally reported by WIRED late last month, is to rewrite the Social Security Administration's code base—in other words, the agency's computer programs, which handle millions of Americans' personal and financial data. Brooke sits down with Clive Thompson, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, contributing writer to New York Times Magazine, and monthly columnist for Wired, to discuss the coding language under DOGE's microscope. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
What effects will generative AI have on coding and software engineering? Will it make anyone a coder? Will it just turn software engineering into copy/paste exercises? How will the top coders use AI to hack their own efficiency and productivity, and why is it so hard for the large tech companies to do the same things that the smaller ones do?Clive Thompson is a journalist for the New York Times Magazine and Wired as well as the author of multiple books, including Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better and Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.Greg and Clive delve into the cultural and societal impacts of the rise of coders, exploring how the coding mindset infiltrates various aspects of life and business. They also discuss the nature of work in software engineering, the shift towards iterative and agile methodologies, and the potential future shaped by generative AI and its implications for the field. Clive explains the paradoxes of efficiency, the challenges of maintenance over creation in coding, and how his life experience and interests converge in his upcoming book about cycling across the United States and the future of mobility. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Show Links:Recommended Resources:Max WeberNeil PostmanSamuel Taylor ColeridgePaul GrahamRay OzzieJeff AtwoodReid HoffmanGuest Profile:CliveThompson.netWikipedia ProfileSocial Profile on XProfile on LinkedInHis Work:Amazon Author PageSmarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the BetterCoders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the WorldWired ArticlesEpisode Quotes:Why do coders need an intense level of focus? If this thing happens [in coding], it will change this other thing. If that thing changes, this thing over here has to happen, and that's also reliant on this other thing. And it's so hard to get the structure of this in your head that you might spend several hours just looking at what you're trying to do, just thinking about it, sort of, getting it in your head. And when it's finally there, then you can begin to do the work. And of course, a couple interesting things fall out of this psychology. One is that you want to stay there. It took you three to four hours to get there, so you don't want to leave. So, you want to stay there for 10, 15, 20, 48 hours. The huge problem with managing coders.[18:15] This is a huge problem with managing coders is that they love learning, in a weird way. You would argue, isn't this an ideal employee? Someone who is eager to learn. Constantly learning new things. Very few employees are like, “I am just omnivorous in my spare time when I'm not being paid, I'm going to do more of this.” I mean, how many accountants at your company go home, and then from eight o'clock at night to two in the morning, do more accounting for fun, just voluntarily? That's a coder, right? And what they're doing is they're going home, and they're doing crazy new forms of software that they're not really allowed to do at work, but they often try and bring that in, and they'll be like, “I'm now obsessed with this framework. Hey, boss, can we use this? And it's like, “No! That framework is experimental and not reliable, and I want you to do the same old boring thing we've been doing for 30 years, because that is reliable.” And this is just a very hard thing. There's an excitement in the craft that a lot of software developers have that's not what the job requires.An interesting analogy between law and codingThat's a great analogy that I'd never heard or thought of before, which is that law needs to be patched the way that software needs to be patched. Because it's the same challenge, which is that [in] writing code and writing law, you're trying to create a system that other people are going to use. Humans are going to use it. And so you, the author of the law, or you, the author of the code, have to try sitting at your desk to imagine all the things that those dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions, or billions of humans will do with this system. And you can't. There's no way you can. So, you have to just put it out there and watch and see what they do, and then fix it as it goes, basically. And, of course, the more critical the system, or the less critical system, the more or less you can get away with.The mental character of coding is closer to that of an artist than it is to many other forms of engineering.Coders hate being interrupted, and that's part of why they're regarded as being such irascible weirdos. [It] is like, if you tap them on the shoulder, they'll bite you.There's something delightful about that mentality of focus. There's something maybe even [to] be learned from it. It's one of the reasons why I realized the more I talked to coders about their attentional needs, and the sweep and drama, and a sort of, epic mental toil, that it reminded me of novelists, of artists, of poets, of temperament. The mental character of coding is closer to that of an artist than it is to many other forms of engineering.
“I think we are at peak dollar... But it's not something that's going to happen overnight; it will take decades to unfold,” says Clive Thompson, retired managing director of Union Bancaire Privée in Switzerland. In an interview with Daniela Cambone, Thompson delves into the dangers of the insurmountable debt burden facing the U.S. economy. Questions on Protecting Your Wealth with Gold & Silver? Schedule a Strategy Call Here ➡️ https://calendly.com/itmtrading/podcast or Call 866-349-3310
This week Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum joins to talk about the 90s, Generation X, and the rise of reality television during our discussion of Reality Bites.About our guest:Emily Nussbaum is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and previously, was the magazine's television critic. She worked as an editor and a writer at New York Magazine, where she created The Approval Matrix. She's also written for Slate, The New York Times, Lingua Franca and Nerve, among other publications. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Clive Thompson and her two children. She doesn't have a favorite television show, but under pressure, she'll choose "Slings and Arrows."Find her new book, Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV right here: https://amzn.to/3CSw6tB
Clive Thompson believes the main driver for the gold price is the untenable debt and deficits in Western economies that are only set to accelerate, and he believes this debt bomb will ignite the gold price higher once it eventually explodes. Clive also provides his outlook for silver, explains where he's seeing value in markets today, and much more.West Red Lake Gold Mines (TSXV: WRLG | OTCQB: WRLGF)https://westredlakegold.comDisclaimer: Commodity Culture was compensated by West Red Lake Gold Mines for promotion. Jesse Day is not a shareholder of West Red Lake Gold Mines. Nothing contained in this promotion is to be construed as investment advice, do your own due diligence.Follow Clive Thompson on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251Follow Jesse Day on X: https://x.com/jessebdayCommodity Culture on Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/CommodityCulture
Interview recorded - 22nd of October, 2024On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Clive Thompson. Clive has years of experience in the wealth management industry & a unique insight into central banks.During our conversation we spoke about the current state of the economy, FED weakening, decreasing interest rates, how the FED are losing control of the bond market, people are losing their jobs and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:40 - Currently seeing in the economy?7:08 - FED seeing workforce weakness?9:40 - Who is buying gold?12:10 - Decreasing interest rates positive?13:45 - FED losing control of bond market?22:57 - Yield rising linked to debt?25:54 - Underinvestment of precious metals28:34 - What is happening with silver?32:14 - One message to takeaway from conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas
Retired wealth manager Clive Thompson discusses the state of the economy, how the post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game, BRICS, and how the reset will most likely bring in CBDCs which is another form of ration coupon. In the early stages of this new system life may be relatively free, but he fears that down the line we'll get end up in a dystopian society. He explains what could happen to the old debt and old currency and what stores of wealth would be wise to have as we go through the transition. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Clive Thompson: Monetary Reset Will Bring in Dystopian CBDCs, How to Survive Transition #484 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use promo code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using this link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251 About Clive Thompson I have an un-blemished career of 47 years in the Wealth Management business. I started my career in 1975 at the age of 18 in the UK. After passing my professional exams "Institute of Bankers - Trustee diploma", I worked as a Trust officer for the leading Cayman Islands Trust Company for several years before accepting a similar title in Switzerland in 1985. In 1995 I joined Coutts & Co in Switzerland as a Private Banker. In 2015 the Wealth Management business of Coutts & Co in Switzerland was bought by Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, one of the four leading private banks in Switzerland. I continued to work as a Managing Director in the Wealth Management division of UBP until I retired in 2022. I am an active investor in all major asset classes, especially global equities. On a daily basis I am trawling through company balance sheets, reports and recommendations, and using several financial tools to help me identify and invest in quoted companies offering attractive risk and reward features. True gems are difficult to find, but if you look long and hard enough, eventually you will find them. I could quote countless examples of "Gems" I have found over the last 48 years. As an example I get very excited when I find companies with a profitable business, no debt, and holding more cash on their balance sheet than their market cap (Yes that's for real). There are plenty of interesting asset plays - situations where valuable corporate assets are not yet recognised by the market. Every year brings some kind of crisis. Some sector of the stock market will be heavily out of favour. I often find bargains in the least loved part of the market. In addition to equities I invest in Private Equity, Precious Metals, Crypto-currencies, Property, Art, and I am open to all kinds of tangible assets. Of course, I have cash and bonds, but frankly the interest rates don't do justice to the rate of fiat inflation. The post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game. The levels of government indebtedness continues to increase faster than GDP. This won't continue forever. Sooner or later something will break. When that happens, fiat-denominated assets, like cash and bonds, are likely to be the biggest losers. I don't want to be one of the bag-holders, hence my preference to hold more tangible assets. Despite being retired, I am in daily discussions with wealthy, and not so wealthy, individuals on topics encompassing residency, taxes, family structures,
Retired wealth manager Clive Thompson discusses the state of the economy, how the post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game, BRICS, and how the reset will most likely bring in CBDCs which is another form of ration coupon. In the early stages of this new system life may be relatively free, but he fears that down the line we'll get end up in a dystopian society. He explains what could happen to the old debt and old currency and what stores of wealth would be wise to have as we go through the transition. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Clive Thompson: Monetary Reset Will Bring in Dystopian CBDCs, How to Survive Transition #484 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use promo code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using this link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251 About Clive Thompson I have an un-blemished career of 47 years in the Wealth Management business. I started my career in 1975 at the age of 18 in the UK. After passing my professional exams "Institute of Bankers - Trustee diploma", I worked as a Trust officer for the leading Cayman Islands Trust Company for several years before accepting a similar title in Switzerland in 1985. In 1995 I joined Coutts & Co in Switzerland as a Private Banker. In 2015 the Wealth Management business of Coutts & Co in Switzerland was bought by Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, one of the four leading private banks in Switzerland. I continued to work as a Managing Director in the Wealth Management division of UBP until I retired in 2022. I am an active investor in all major asset classes, especially global equities. On a daily basis I am trawling through company balance sheets, reports and recommendations, and using several financial tools to help me identify and invest in quoted companies offering attractive risk and reward features. True gems are difficult to find, but if you look long and hard enough, eventually you will find them. I could quote countless examples of "Gems" I have found over the last 48 years. As an example I get very excited when I find companies with a profitable business, no debt, and holding more cash on their balance sheet than their market cap (Yes that's for real). There are plenty of interesting asset plays - situations where valuable corporate assets are not yet recognised by the market. Every year brings some kind of crisis. Some sector of the stock market will be heavily out of favour. I often find bargains in the least loved part of the market. In addition to equities I invest in Private Equity, Precious Metals, Crypto-currencies, Property, Art, and I am open to all kinds of tangible assets. Of course, I have cash and bonds, but frankly the interest rates don't do justice to the rate of fiat inflation. The post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game. The levels of government indebtedness continues to increase faster than GDP. This won't continue forever. Sooner or later something will break. When that happens, fiat-denominated assets, like cash and bonds, are likely to be the biggest losers. I don't want to be one of the bag-holders, hence my preference to hold more tangible assets. Despite being retired, I am in daily discussions with wealthy, and not so wealthy, individuals on topics encompassing residency, taxes, family structures,
Episode 136I spoke with Clive Thompson about:* How he writes* Writing about the climate and biking across the US* Technology culture and persistent debates in AI* PoetryEnjoy—and let me know what you think!Clive is a journalist who writes about science and technology. He is a contributing writer forWired magazine, and is currently writing his next book about micromobility and cycling across the US.Find me on Twitter for updates on new episodes, and reach me at editor@thegradient.pub for feedback, ideas, guest suggestions. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (01:07) Clive's life as a Tarantino movie* (03:07) Boring life and interesting art, life as material for art* (10:25) Cycling across the US — Clive's new book on mobility and decarbonization* (15:07) Turning inward in writing* (27:21) Including personal experience in writing* (31:53) Personal and less personal writing* (36:08) Conveying uncertainty and the “voice from nowhere” in traditional journalism* (41:10) Finding the natural end of a piece* (1:02:10) Writing routine* (1:05:08) Theories of change in Clive's writing* (1:12:33) How Clive saw things before the rest of us* (1:27:00) Automation in software engineering* (1:31:40) The anthropology of coders, poetry as a framework* (1:43:50) Proust discourse* (1:45:00) Technology culture in NYC + interaction between the tech world and other worlds* (1:50:30) Technological developments Clive wants to see happen (free ideas)* (2:01:11) Clive's argument for memorizing poetry* (2:09:24) How Clive finds poetry* (2:18:03) Clive's pursuit of freelance writing and making compromises* (2:27:25) OutroLinks:* Clive's Twitter and website* Selected writing* The Attack of the Incredible Grading Machine (Lingua Franca, 1999)* The Know-It-All Machine (Lingua Franca, 2001)* How to teach AI some common sense (Wired, 2018)* Blogs to Riches (NY Mag, 2006)* Clive vs. Jonathan Franzen on whether the internet is good for writing (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013)* The Minecraft Generation (New York Times, 2016)* What AI College Exam Proctors are Really Teaching Our Kids (Wired, 2020)* Companies Don't Need to Be Creepy to Make Money (Wired, 2021)* Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Solution to Our Climate Crisis? (Mother Jones, 2021)* AI Shouldn't Compete with Workers—It Should Supercharge Them (Wired, 2022)* Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing Wired, 2024) Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe
Interview recorded - 17th of April, 2024On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Clive Thompson. Clive's entire career was in wealth management, mainly Swiss private banking. This provides him a unique insight into central banks.During our conversation we spoke about why we didn't experience a banking crisis in 2023, whether it could be a risk moving forward, governments getting poorer while someone else is getting richer, stickier than expected inflation, financial repression, precious metals and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction2:16 - Should we be worried about further banking crisis?11:21 - Light at end of the tunnel darkening?13:20 - Maybe long end of yield curve to increase further15:01 - Stickier than expected inflation?16:31 - Banks under more pressure?28:33 - FED and other central banks moving to financial repression?33:36 - Is this why we've seen an increase in precious metals?43:33 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas
“If we get to a currency reset, the countries that have a lot of gold will be sitting at the table. And those who have no gold will be told what to do,” warns Clive Thompson, retired managing director for Union Bancaire Privée in Switzerland. Questions on Protecting Your Wealth with Gold & Silver? Schedule a Strategy Call Here ➡️ https://calendly.com/itmtrading/podcast or Call 866-349-3310
"Your purchasing power is being eroded literally by the day because the quantity of fiat wealth on the planet is going up every day," warns Clive Thompson, retired managing director for Union Banquette Privée in Switzerland. Questions on Protecting Your Wealth with Gold & Silver? Schedule a Strategy Call Here ➡️ https://calendly.com/itmtrading/podcast or Call 866-349-3310
In today's show, you'll learn how the future could be more than a little good. That's right, all that cray cray crazy in the world is actually a good sign. Clive Thompson is a retired private banker and wealth manager of 47 years, based in Switzerland. None of this is financial advice, but I do hope it gets you thinking!Sign up to the newsletter!______________________Take The Home Buyers Blueprint: Get a better home; Get a better mortgage.Sign up to the KiwiSaver Millionaire Roadmap: From 6 figures to 7; Get a Rockstar Retirement!Sign up to New Wealth Foundations here: Personal finance from a wealth-builder's perspective.Thanks to Easy Crypto, New Zealand's most trusted crypto brand and what Darcy Ungaro uses.Book in a free 15-min phone call with Darcy Ungaro (financial adviser)- click on this link.Get SocialYouTube InstagramTikTok: @theeverydayinvestorwww.nzeverydayinvestor.comInstagramYouTubeDarcy UngaroLinkedInTwitter: @UngaroDarcywww.ungaro.co.nz________________________Affiliate Links!I may receive a financial benefit if you click on these links.HatchSharesiesEasy CryptoSharesight: (Get 5 months free)CMC MarketsRevolut: Sign up, and get a $15 credit.Disclaimer: Please act independently from any content provided in these episodes; it's not financial advice, because there's no accounting for your individual circumstances. Do your own research, and take a broad range of opinions into...
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AI chatbots have gotten pretty good at generating text that looks like it was written by a real person. That’s because they’re trained on words and sentences that actual humans wrote, scraped from blogs and news websites. But research now shows when you feed that AI-generated text back into the models to train a new chatbot, after a while, it sort of stops making sense. It’s a phenomenon AI researchers are calling “model collapse.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Clive Thompson, author of “Coders” and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Wired, about what could be a growing problem as more AI-generated stuff lands on the web.
AI chatbots have gotten pretty good at generating text that looks like it was written by a real person. That’s because they’re trained on words and sentences that actual humans wrote, scraped from blogs and news websites. But research now shows when you feed that AI-generated text back into the models to train a new chatbot, after a while, it sort of stops making sense. It’s a phenomenon AI researchers are calling “model collapse.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Clive Thompson, author of “Coders” and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Wired, about what could be a growing problem as more AI-generated stuff lands on the web.
In April, journalist and author Clive Thompson set out to bicycle across the entire country — 4,150 miles total — as part of the reporting for his next book on “micromobility.” He documented his trip in real time online: 70 days on the road, broken up by a brief return trip home. Here we discuss what micromobility is and why this ride was so important for him to do, plus some ups and downs of the journey and what cycling across the country does to someone physically, mentally and emotionally. Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com Email: hello@bkmag.com Follow along on Facebook: Brooklyn Magazine Twitter: @brooklynmag Instagram: @brooklynmagazine Follow Brian Braiker on Twitter: @slarkpope
Interview Recorded - 31st of March, 2023On today's episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Clive Thompson, a retired Wealth Manager from Switzerland. During our conversation we spoke about what was behind the recent bank collapses, commercial real estate the next concern, what this means for the world of banking, how the FED can continue with unrealised losses and whether a BRICs currency could replaced the US Dollar. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:40 - What is behind the recent bank collapses10:30 - Commercial Real Estate the next issue?15:50 - Most inflated real estate cities to drop18:20 - Which banks have the most exposure to commercial real estate?19:30 - What does this mean for the world of banking?21:25 - Further concentration in largest companies?32:40 - Could the FED go bankrupt?40:10 - What does a pivot mean for currency and monetary system?43:05 - How bad would BRICS currency be for US Dollar?44:50 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas
Clive Thompson is a retired managing director of a private Swiss bank with 47 years of experience advising families on how to manage their wealth. Now he is sharing his expertise with the public on preparing for their financial future in a changing world. Show Notes:Is a new global currency on the horizon? Can you imagine a world with no debt? Today I welcome retired investment banker Clive Thompson to the podcast. In this episode, Clive breaks down in detail how a global currency reset could happen and what that will mean for the average person. We discuss the value of gold/silver, tokenization, and a diversified portfolio. Listen to this episode now to learn why you shouldn't save too much cash and what investments you should research more. In This Episode, You'll Learn:How A Global Currency Reset Could HappenWhy There's A Need For Gold and SilverThe Value of TokenizationHow Individuals Can Prepare for Inflation and a Currency Reset Find More of Clive Thompson Here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/ Full Episode Timestamps:0:00:06 Who is Clive Thompson?0:01:41 What Is Going On With The Current Financial System?0:08:17 Why Aren't More Financial Advisors Concerned About American Debt and The Current Situation with Fiat Currency?0:10:12 What Will Potentially Be The Process for Switching to a New Currency?0:19:14 What Conflicts May Arise From A Global Currency Reset?0:22:25 Could a Financial Reset Lead To a More Authoritarian Government?0:25:59 Why Is There a Need For Gold and Silver?0:30:40 Is There A Possibility of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) Not Being Adopted?0:32:59 What Is Tokenization And How Does This Impact Economics?0:38:29 What Should The Average Person Do to Prepare Against Inflation and a Financial Reset?0:44:04 Are The Prices of Gold and Silver Being Suppressed?0:48:55 What Is The Average Portfolio Ratio for High Net Worth Individuals?
Your freedom and liberty are under threat. The central bank digital currency is slowly making its way into our society. Other countries are already embracing it and willingly surrendering their rights- all in the name of 'protection.' Is the US next? So what are we to do? How are we to respond when our money will soon be digitized? Navigate through treacherous waters as Jason and Clive continue their discussion about the implications and ramifications of having a digital wallet as part of our society and how you can protect yourself from the impending darkness that is the digital dollar. Key Takeaways: Jason's editorial 1:22 The elites increasing control over the population 2:05 The pyramid of the hierarchy of money 5:37 SEC goes after Coinbase 10:07 Banks are still drawing on the FED for $164 Billion of emergency cash 11:45 Join the Empowered Mentoring Program Zoom Meeting TODAY. https://EmpoweredInvestor.com/Mentor 13:40 Go to https://www.JasonHartman.com/Join for the 100% Financing Zoom meeting Clive Thompson interview 15:38 Keeping the Reset a secret as the world follows suit 17:05 The digital wallet would make it just so easy 22:17 Exceptions and different rules for the elite class 23:24 The speed to which it comes and the countries that go first 25:44 Engineering a crisis to usher in the CBDC 30:03 Strange bedfellows: FED tolerance and government bailouts 33:06 Two Huge FED problems- a HUGE asset that does not exist 36:01 How this all plays out 38:16 THE Action plan: invest in things that have intrinsic value 41:28 Cost of insuring against US default Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class: Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com
Again, Jason is sounding the alarm regarding the central bank digital currency that is coming in our already prevalent surveillance state. And when this finally happens, it is 'checkmate' for the human race! And talking with Jason about the impending RESET and the implications of this massive digital shift in our society is Clive Thompson. He is a retired Managing Director at Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA at UBP - Union Bancaire Privée. Invest in our Florida and Alabama markets- with 100% financing! Join our zoom meeting where Jason talks about how you can avail of this! Just go to https://www.JasonHartman.com/Join to register for this coming Thursday's webinar. Key Takeaways: Jason's editorial 1:22 The inevitability of digital currency and our surveillance state 5:39 Invisible banking and the power of a digital system 7:43 A blatant lie from the FED 9:01 Runaway inflation or banking system collapse 11:38 Inflation induced debt destruction 13:51 Three million US households making over $150,000 are still renters 16:01 Low housing inventory and the million dollar cities lost 18:03 100% Financing. go to https://www.JasonHartman.com/Join and register today! Clive Thompson interview 20:22 Welcome Clive from Switzerland 21:15 Global currency: truly horrifying 'Orwellian' levels of control 24:09 The inevitability of the digital fiat money by governments and corporations 25:16 Cost savings and convenience- like Sweden 26:35 What one can do to protect oneself? 27:42 What about Bitcoin? 28:31 The future in terms of Inflation, deflation and stagflation 30:48 Hard assets, things that have intrinsic value 33:13 Currency reset and how it affects the economy 34:40 Resetting the mortgage 37:07 Surviving the reset Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class: Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com
Clive Thompson, a retired wealth manager from Switzerland, joins Small Caps to share his views on investing, assets, money, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), gold and silver. Clive has 47 years of experience in finance and wealth management encompassing the structuring and advice related to quoted investments, private equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, wills, legal, lending, trusts, companies and foundations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clive Thompson, a retired wealth manager from Switzerland, joins Small Caps to share his views on investing, assets, money, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), gold and silver. Clive has 47 years of experience in finance and wealth management encompassing the structuring and advice related to quoted investments, private equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, wills, legal, lending, trusts, companies and foundations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clive Thompson, a retired wealth manager from Switzerland, joins Small Caps to share his views on investing, assets, money, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), gold and silver. Clive has 47 years of experience in finance and wealth management encompassing the structuring and advice related to quoted investments, private equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, wills, legal, lending, trusts, companies and foundations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.Twenty-three minutes. That's how long it takes for your brain to refocus after shifting from one task to the next. Check your email, glance at a text, and you'll pay for what's called a “switch effect.”“We've fallen for a mass delusion that our brains can multi-task. They can't,” author Johann Hari found out in researching his latest book. We're paying a price for our stolen ability to focus and maybe that's one of the reasons we're falling for autocrats and punting on solving the world's grievous problems.Can we spare a few minutes to focus on Luddites? Read people's historian Peter Linebaugh, or Jacobin writer, Peter Frase; check out a Smithsonian Magazine's feature by Clive Thompson -- and you'll find that Luddites weren't backward thinking thugs, but rather, skilled craftspeople whose lives were about to be wrecked.Textile cutters, spinners and weavers, before factories came along, those British textile workers enjoyed a pretty good life. Working from home, they had a certain amount of autonomy over their lives. The price for their products was set and published. They could work as much or as little as liked. Come the early 1800s – war and recession - and machines and factories threatened all of that. The Luddites – a made up name - didn't start by breaking machines. They started by making demands of the factory owners to phase in the technology slowly. Some proposed a tax on textiles to fund worker pensions. They called for government regulation. Relief from the harms and a fair share of the profits from progress. It was only when they were denied all of that that they started breaking stuff up. Today, the big U.S. social media companies are facing lawsuits. On January 6th, Seattle Public Schools sued TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat, and YouTube for their negative impact on students' mental and emotional health. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month over the protections the tech industry enjoys under law when their algorithms intentionally push potentially harmful content for profit. What would breaking the machines look like in our time? I don't know. But if Hari's right, it's not just the quality of our lives that's in danger. It's the state of our minds that's at stake. You can hear this week's show, via this podcast feed, with Johann Hari or catch Laura's full uncut conversation that includes, Noam Chomsky, the subject of his next book -- a man with no problem with focus it seems -- through a patreon subscription to theLFShow
Interview recorded - 12th of January, 2023On this weeks episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Clive Thompson, a retired Wealth Manager from Switzerland. During our conversation we spoke about how Central Banks are becoming insolvent, three potential courses of actions Central Banks have, how this could lead to CBDC's and a monetary reset and what assets would protect wealth during this period. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction0:30 - How are central banks making large losses?9:25 - Could Central Banks print more money?10:00 - Normal accounting rules do not apply to central banks10:40 - Are central banks in a death spiral?12:20 - Can the current system be saved?14:15 - 3 potential courses of action?15:15 - Catalyst for a change in the system?16:37 - CBDC's and a monetary reset20:38 - Will this be different to current system?22:46 - How does this solve the debt issue?30:40 - Could banks be replaced by central banks?32:00 - How does a currency reset effect asset owners?34:20 - Any assets which would protect wealth?41:30 - When could this happen?52:35 - One message to take away from our conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been nothing short of crisis — leading to massive layoffs and lost advertisers. On this week's On the Media, what this chaos means for activists worldwide who used the platform as a public square. Plus, how political predictions distort coverage of elections. 1. James Fallows [@JamesFallows], writer of the “Breaking the News” newsletter on Substack, on the political press' obsession with telling the future and the narratives that have a chokehold on elections coverage. Listen. 2. Zoë Schiffer [@ZoeSchiffer], Managing Editor of Platformer, on the mass exodus of employees from one of the world's most significant social media sites. Listen. 3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the impact of Musk's leadership on Twitter users around the world. Listen. 4. Clive Thompson [@pomeranian99], journalist and author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, on the website many are fleeing to amid chaos at Twitter. Listen.
In the wake of the five alarm fire at Twitter, a small, quiet social media alternative has been quietly attracting the tweeting weary. Mastodon, named for the prehistoric elephant relatives, was originally created by a German programmer named Eugen Rochko in 2016. And even though it shares similarities to its blue bird peer, the two platforms possess many differences. For one, Mastodon is organized by groups called "servers" or "instances," there's no universal experience like on Twitter. It's also completely decentralized — each server is run by individuals or small groups — with no overseeing company. But is it here to stay? This week, Brooke sits down with Clive Thompson, a tech journalist and author of the book Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, to talk about why people like Mastodon, who it's for, and why we should watch its latest evolution. You can find Clive Thompson on Mastodon at @clive@saturation.social and OTM by searching @onthemedia@journa.host.
Clive Thompson was a curious 16-year-old when he started out growing mushrooms back in the 1960s. More than half a century on, he's now selling his Wairarapa business Parkvale Mushrooms.
Luis Martín Cabiedes decidió ser inversor porque era esa una profesión en la que podía controlar su agenda y su tiempo. Ni un empresario ni por supuesto un directivo tienen su libertad de movimientos. Desde posición de independencia buscaría primero y atacaría después las oportunidades que la vida ofrece. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, en el el magnífico libro Fooled by randomness, analiza el rol de la suerte en el éxito y el fracaso. No debemos tampoco temerla. La incertidumbre puede ser aliada.Escucha el podcast en tu plataforma habitual:Spotify — Apple — iVoox — YouTubeEste podcast está patrocinado por Scalable Capital.¿Te gustaría empezar a invertir pero no sabes cómo o dónde hacerlo? Scalable Capital es la respuesta que estás buscando. Se trata de una plataforma de inversión digital, líder en Europa, con una oferta que incluye una amplia selección de ETFs, acciones, fondos y criptomonedas, y que cuenta con más de 600.000 clientes. ¿Quieres saber lo mejor de todo? No necesitas una fortuna para empezar. Puedes establecer tu propio plan de inversión en tan solo unos clics, desde tan solo un 1 euro. Mucho hemos hablado en Kapital sobre la inflación y las distintas opciones disponibles para proteger tus ahorros. Yo te animo, cuando te sientas cómodo con los conceptos aquí descritos, a que inviertas parte de tu dinero en el mercado. Y que lo hagas con visión a largo plazo. Toma el control de tus finanzas con Scalable.¿Quieres patrocinar una edición de Kapital?Apuntes:Incerto. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.Pensar rápido, pensar despacio. Daniel Kahneman.Deshaciendo errores. Michael Lewis.A failure to disagree. Daniel Kahneman & Gary Klein.Prospect theory. Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky.The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky.Judgement under uncertainty. Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky.Daniel Kahneman, pensamiento rápido y lento. Pere Estupinyà.Cuatro mil semanas. Oliver Burkeman.Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell.Six-page narratives. Jeff Bezos.PowerPoint makes you dumb. Clive Thompson.Team radio. Red Bull Racing.Silicon Valley. Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky.Índice:1.25. Invertir en tecnológicas o en empresas de toda la vida.6.21. Por suerte de todos, la economía no es como la física.12.42. Busca tu primer cliente antes de pensar en la misión corporativa.15.26. La renta básica universal y el inesperado regreso de los luditas.21.31. Sigue tu pasión y arriésgate. La receta del éxito es también la receta del fracaso.31.41. Fake it until you make it cuando las expectativas condicionen tus probabilidades.43.06. El partido político suizo en contra de los PowerPoints.48.59. Exposición positiva. En los negocios y en la vida.1.02.38. El inversor no puede conducir el F1.1.15.21. ¿Has encontrado un mercado? ¿Hay un negocio en ese mercado? ¿Podemos hacerlo crecer? ¿Podemos defender ese negocio?1.20.19. El rol que juega el instinto en la decisión.1.30.11. Las trampas en el ESG.1.36.33. El día nacional del emprendedor.1.39.01. Isabel la Católica fue la primera business angel.
Clive Thompson on how moral panics of the past can help us understand our present, voting machines & election integrity, and much more. Visit Clive Thompson.Medium.com for all your Clive needs and Patreon.com/MikeTully for all your me needs.
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If you work in an office, chances are you spend a lot of time on Slack. The workplace messaging platform has become an even more important tool in the work-from-home era. And it has been rolling out new stuff that's supposed to replicate the office atmosphere, online. Last year Slack introduced Huddles—a spontaneous audio room you can join right in Slack—and it quickly became became the fastest-adopted feature in Slack's history. Now the company is adding video to Huddles, inching toward becoming a full-fledged video conferencing service. This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED writers Lauren Goode and Gilad Edelman chat about the Zoomification of Slack, whether we really need another video chat app, and what this all means for how we communicate online. Show Notes Read Lauren's story about how the future of Slack looks a lot like Zoom. Read Mat Honan's 2014 WIRED profile of Slack founder Stewart Butterfield. Here's Clive Thompson's piece about how it's time for “maximum viable product.” Recommendations Gilad recommends getting a chef's pan. Lauren recommends using the Calendar chatbot in Slack. Gilad Edelman can be found on Twitter @GiladEdelman. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Clive Thompson, longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and columnist for Wired, discusses the evolution of hackers, how bias is baked into our software systems, and how social media platforms started off with serious flaws because their programmers lacked diversity. Clive's new book is Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.
La misión: marcar el rumbo de la web en sus primeros días. Tiempo: 10 días para lograrlo. Resultado: un lenguaje indispensable que lo cambiaría todo. Aunque nadie creía en JavaScript, triunfó a pesar de los pronósticos negativos. Clive Thompson nos cuenta las batallas de los navegadores y su influencia para el futuro de Internet. Charles Severance explica que JavaScript pasó de ser el jonrón del último minuto al lenguaje de desarrollo por defecto de la web. Michael Clayton nos confiesa que, al igual que mucha gente, él había subestimado JavaScript. Y Klint Finley describe que sin este lenguaje, Internet estaría en las penumbras. Aquí te dejamos el link a la entrevista del podcast Devchat para conocer más sobre lo que sucedió durante esos 10 días de sprint.
Facebook's metaverse announcement sent shockwaves around the digital world—and not just because of Mark Zuckerberg's "unique" presentation. But what does it all mean for brands, marketers, consumers, and the world at large? Choose your avatar and join Jenna, Nasser, and Dan in the funnelverse as they dissect the implications, confront controversies, and tackle topics including: "The metaverse" or "A metaverse"? Fluff, vision, and positioning: The hallmarks of a land grab How the metaverse will make crypto cowboys richer AR vs. VR What should brands do to prepare? LINKS: Shaan Puri: "https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1454151237650112512 (Hot take: Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse)" | Clive Thompson: "https://debugger.medium.com/the-metaverse-is-already-here-its-minecraft-99c89ed8ba2 (The Metaverse Is Already Here — It's Minecraft)" | DAC: "https://www.dacgroup.com/blog/podcast-rewind-3-lessons-learned-about-digital-transformation (Podcast rewind: 3 lessons learned about digital transformation)" | ATTRIBUTIONS: "radio band.wav" by Paper Jam of Freesound.org
Protests in the streets, against the backdrop of a deadly pandemic with political upheaval the world over. What kind of leadership should we look to under such complex and highly uncertain conditions? I'm grateful to be speaking with Chris Fussell of the McChrystal group, who together with Stan McChrystal, transformed the culture in the Joint Special Operations Command to distributed, not hierarchical, leadership with a network form of governance. What Chris learned in highly deadly military situations are essential insights for all of us today. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thoughtsparksritamcgrath/message
Clive Thompson's recent book "Coders" takes us into the minds and hearts of the people that are actually creating the digital world we all live in. From the first piece of code many learned to love - "hello, world" to the sophisticated interactions behind artificial intelligence, Thompson gives us a fascinating fly on the wall perspective. In this #FridayFiresideChat, he explains why coders hate to be interrupted, why they sometimes don't even eat and why grappling with inhuman amounts of frustration comes with the job. Have a listen - you'll find it really interesting. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thoughtsparksritamcgrath/message
Todos los lenguajes de programación se crearon para lograr algo que antes era imposible. Actualmente existen muchísimos, ¿pero cuáles realmente necesitas conocer? En este episodio nos sumergiremos en la historia de los lenguajes de programación. Hablaremos de la genialidad de "Amazing Grace", también conocida como la Contralmirante Grace Hopper. A ella le debemos el que los desarrolladores no necesiten un doctorado en matemáticas para escribir sus programas en código informático. Nos acompañarán Carol Willing de Project Jupyter, exdirectora de la Python Software Foundation, y Clive Thompson, colaborador de la revista The New York Times Magazine y Wired, y autor de "Coders", un libro sobre la manera de pensar de los programadores.
We discussed a number of things including: 1. Psychology and worldview of computer programmers 2. Beneficial ways technology has affected our cognition 3. How tech is helping and hurting society 4. Technology and the election I'm a computer geek from way back. I got interested in them as a child in the early 80s in Toronto, when machines like the Commodore 64 arrived. My parents wouldn't get our family a computer (my mother worried I'd just “sit around playing games all the time”), but I devoured every book of BASIC programming I could find at the library, and whenever I could cadge some time on a computer at school or a friend's house, I'd try to do some programming. I created little games, databases, primitive chatbots, digital music, and gradually realized that computers were going to change everything. In high school, though, I decided I wanted to be a journalist. I studied English and political science at the University of Toronto, and after graduating in 1992 I worked as a street musician, a receptionist for a driving school, a bookkeeper, and an administrative cog for the League of Canadian Poets (the country's most awesomely-named literary organization) — before deciding to become a freelance magazine writer. This was around the time the Internet hit the mainstream, so I began writing long pieces about how it was changing politics, shopping, art, culture, and everything in between. In the late 90s I moved to New York and began writing for magazines including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Fast Company, New York, Mother Jones and Smithsonian. My work has won several awards, including an Overseas Press Council Award, a Mirror Award, and in 2002/2003 I was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. My most recent books include Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, and Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better. In my spare time I write, record, and perform music in the band The Delorean Sisters.
Episode 29 features Sean Haas, host and creator of Advent of Computing, "a podcast about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation." We discuss the importance of computer history, our device history, and generally geek out about technology. During the episode we cover: Why Computer History? First computers Learning from Failure Looking back to look forward Starting Advent of Computing The Altair Xerox PARC Early Internet The mouse The undocumented history of computers Research And much more... Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode AgentPalmer.com AdventofComputing.com Support Advent of Computing on Patreon Tweets @ThePalmerFiles @AgentPalmer @AdventofComp Suggested Reading Mentioned in the Episode Fumbling The Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer Coders by Clive Thompson is an intriguing glimpse behind the code and into the people writing it Innovation Meets Invention: A Review of The Innovators by Walter Isaacson How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough is a brilliant book about the story of the Internet Era Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evan“iWoz” is the Great Autobiography of Steve Wozniak by Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith A Book Review of “A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age” by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman In constant pursuit of “The New New Thing” Charming, rude, sometimes clairvoyant: 1992 biography gives broad – albeit incomplete – look at Bill Gates Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: A Biography of the Man from the Intersection of Humanities and Sciences An Agent Palmer Book Report: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy a Defense of the Unconventional Her You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and as mentioned on this show as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette. Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions. --End Show Notes Transmission--
On this episode, I talk with Clive Thompson, author of “The Minecraft Generation,” which appeared in the New York Times Magazine. It explores the phenomenon of the third-best-selling video game in history — a game that has more than 100 million registered players. Thompson looks at the cultural, intellectual, and psychological meaning of Minecraft's popularity. He and I talk about how he approached the task of understanding and explaining the massive impact of this game on millions of children. Clive Thompson is a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired. He is also the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better.
Every new technology has its critics. Whether it's a fancy new digital gadget with a seemingly endless number of functions, or an addictive new app for your Smart Phone, the latest and greatest inventions can sometimes give us reason to pause.
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