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As a journalist during the dot-com boom and throughout more than a decade as the Editor In Chief of the MIT Technology Review, Jason Pontin has seen technology of all kinds emerge from its earliest stages to become the world-shifting technology we and use today. After watching that evolution happen for so long, Jason decided he wanted in on the action. Today. He is a Senior Advisor for Flagship Pioneering, where he is focused on how technology can be used to make a larger impact on the world. On this episode, he talks about some of the projects and companies he’s involved with, and he explains why he believes A.I. and deep learning will be huge forces in shaping the world moving forward. Key Takeaways: Certain technologies — like A.I. and gene editing — will have a greater impact than we currently understand Using computers and A.I. to do things that humans can’t will, hopefully, lead to more breakthroughs New technology can lead to new and better jobs, but it takes time --- IT Visionaries is brought to you by the Salesforce Customer 360 Platform - the #1 cloud platform for digital transformation of every experience. Build connected experiences, empower every employee, and deliver continuous innovation - with the customer at the center of everything you do. Learn more at salesforce.com/platform
Jason Pontin to niekwestionowany ekspert w dziedzinie najnowszych trendów technologicznych, inwestor venture capital, działający w branży biotechnologicznej, a wcześniej dziennikarz z wieloletnim doświadczeniem. Jako redaktor i CEO magazynu MIT Technology Review był inicjatorem rewolucyjnych zmian wprowadzających ten prestiżowy tytuł w erę cyfrową. Jest znany z krytycznego spojrzenia na to jak osiągnięcia nauki i technologia mogą przyczynić się do rozwiązania najbardziej palących problemów na świecie. Posłuchaj podcastu i poznaj technologie, które, w najbliższym czasie przyniosą rewolucyjne zmiany w biznesie. Special Guest: Jason Pontin.
The golden era of “hard” science fiction that respects the rules of actual science lasted from the 1940s to the 1960s. In the 1970s, demand for hard sci-fi fell off a cliff, with a big push from the first Star Wars movie in 1977. But for the last year and a half, Soonish host Wade Roush has been part of a project to revive this underappreciated genre. This week’s episode is all about Twelve Tomorrows, the new short-story anthology Wade edited for MIT Technology Review and the MIT Press. The episode outlines the book’s mission and origin story. And four of the eleven authors who contributed stories to the book weight in on the differences between hard science fiction, fantasy, and other sci-fi sub-genres. Soonish listeners can get 30% off the book's list price by calling 1-800-405-1619 or writing to orders@triliteral.org and using the discount code SOONISH30. And now through July 31, listeners who become new Soonish patrons at Patreon at the $5 per episode level or above will get a free autographed copy of the book! To sign up go to patreon.com/soonish. The full video of the Twelve Tomorrows launch event, including readings by Elizabeth Bear, Lisa Huang, and Ken Liu is at https://www.soonishpodcast.org/extras/2018/6/21/video-meet-three-of-the-twelve-tomorrows-authors Music in this episode by Graham Gordon Ramsay and Titlecard Music. Full episode details: https://www.soonishpodcast.org/episodes/2018/6/18/208-sci-fi-that-takes-science-seriously
One reason Dropbox is so successful is that the company attracts and holds great people. While no company ever “wins” the war for talent — the war never actually ends — successful young companies do in fact know how to win the key battles. Learn how Dropbox does it — in this interview with Dropbox Founder and CEO Drew Houston, conducted by Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology Review and Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum. (Originally released 2/13/14)
Jason Pontin, preambles the March 13, 2013 Innovation Series event with a discussion about what it will take to solve the big problems of our time like climate change, cancer and the growing plague of dementia. Jason is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review and Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum. The March 13th program was itself prompted by MIT Technology Review’s “Big Problems, Big Solutions” issue.
A wide-ranging conversation on technology with Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review. He touches on gene editing, Moore's Law, artificial intelligence, Facebook and fake news, and what ties all these disparate strands together.
Historically Thinking: Conversations about historical knowledge and how we achieve it
Historians have a pretty hard time figuring out the past; should they also try to forecast the future? My guest on today's podcast, Professor David Hochfelder, believes that, in fact, historians are uniquely qualified to forecast what comes next. In one recent interview Professor Hochfelder is quoted as saying that he's never believed in “studying the past for the past’s own sake." He observes that, “The major rationale for studying history is to figure out how we got here, and if we answer that question, if we have that mind-set, the very next question is, ‘So where are we going after this?’” David Hochfelder is associate professor of history at the University of Albany, part of the SUNY system. An electrical-engineer-turned-historian, Dr. Hochfelder has written on the histories of technology and business, combining both in his book The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920. We're very pleased to have this provocative thinker as our guest this week on Historically Thinking. Join us as we talk about why the 19th century, not the 20th, experienced civilization's greatest technological leap; the difference between predicting and forecasting; what terms of art savvy forecasters like to use; and why. For Further Investigation "Are historians the ideal futurists?" from Inside Higher Education H.G. Wells, "Wanted–Professors of Foresight!" Jason Pontin, "Why We Can't Solve Big Problems", from MIT Technology Review, November 2012 Paul Sabin, The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future
News: Thanks to listener Linda Hopkins, we learn from Amazon that Kindle samples are NOT designed to timeout.Tech Tip: How to put [20,000] 2,000 classics on your Kindle using MobileReference (thanks to Nick for suggesting this one) - 1. Connect your Kindle to your computer with USB cable.2. In your computer's web browser, go to MobileReference3. In the main area of the web site, not the column on the left, scroll down to the section titled “Fiction Books.” 4. In the last subcategory of that section, titled “Collection:”, click on “Classic Books Collection. Over 2,000 complete works. Only $19.99.”5. For use on the Kindle, it doesn't seem to matter which platform you choose; I've just tested the “Desktop/Notebook/Tablet PC” platform, and that worked fine. So in the row for “Desktop/Notebook/Tablet PC” platform, go over one column to the “Trial Version” column and click “Download Now.”6. You will be asked to enter your email address, so do that and then click on the green “Download Application” button.7. On the next screen, click on the live link which says “Click here to download: Best-Selling Classic Books Collection. Over 2000 complete works. FREE biographies and works in trial”8. From here, what you see will depend on whether you are using a PC or Mac, but the essentials are the same as with any other download from the Internet that you do on your computer. For the Mac, I see a dialog box saying, “You have chosen to open classicstrial103.zip” which is a zipped file containing numerous separate items. I click on “OK” to open it with Stuffit Expander. However your computer works, your goal is to be able to find a folder on your hard drive titled “ClassicsTrial”. Mine shows up in a Downloads folder.9. Open a window that shows you the “ClassicsTrial” folder you just downloaded, and then open that folder so you can see all the items in it, beginning with “AlexandreDumasDEMO.prc” and ending with “WilliamShakespeareDEMO.prc.”10. Open another window that shows the Kindle icon, which you should see because your Kindle is attached to the computer by the USB cable.11. Doubleclick the Kindle icon, so you can see five folders, including the one labeled “Documents.” 12. Drag the “ClassicsTrial” folder into the “Documents” folder of your Kindle. I just tried this on my MacBook Air, and it worked fine – I assume the same process will work on a PC, but if you run into trouble you might try selecting all the individual books in the “ClassicsTrial” folder and dragging them in one big bunch into the “Documents” folder. 13. Once you have the “ClassicsTrial” contents in the Documents folder of your Kindle, safely eject the Kindle icon and then unplug the USB cable.14. Checking on your Home screen, you'll now see about three added pages of demo versions of classic books. 15. I'm pretty sure that once you sample some of the demo books, you'll want to spend the $19.99 to purchase the actual collection. I'm going to do that now but make sure they go to my SD card, to keep my main Kindle.16. The purchase process via Handango is routine, and you don't have to wait for a registration code. The folder is called “ClassicsFull” . It's about 115 megabytes in size, so even with my speedy Comcast connection (31 megabits per second when I was doing the download last weekend) – it took a while for it all to load to my computer, and then another few minutes for it to load from the computer to the Kindle.17. I've got a 1 GigaByte SD card in my Kindle. After adding 2,000 classics I've got 838 MB left, or room for another 16,000 classics on a storage device that cost me less than $20.18. One thing I don't like is that all these new titles appear in my Home pages on the Kindle, even though I put them on the SD card. At least they are gathered by author, so you click on an author to see all the titles he or she wrote. 19. All in all this is a great resource, and I want to thank Nick for suggesting that I follow the process for this week's Tech Tip.Interview: Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT's Technology Review, a rising star in the Kindle Store.Quote: "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov.Comments: Bob Boyken, Jim Brooks, Gail Scott, Julie Booth and Will D.
News: The Motley Fool asserts that Oprah has saved Amazon.Tech Tip: What are those white boxes to the right of some items on the home screen?Interview: Dave Emberson, author of The Kindle Cookbook: How to Do Everything the Manual Doesn't Tell You.Quote: Technology Review's editor Jason Pontin has some advice for the next president.Comments: Stephen Windwalker, Kesler Woodward, and Linda Hopkins.You can leave a voice comment by calling 206-666-2713 or by emailing me an .mp3 audio file at PodChronicles@gmail.com . You can leave text comments at that email address or here on the show notes page. I'd love to hear from you!Music for my podcast is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective” CD by Public Transit Recording, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
Larry discusses the future of publishing on the web with the Editor in Chief of the MIT Magazine of Innovation called Technology Review, Jason Pontin, about his work with the New York Times and the magazine itself.