Podcasts about Machine Age

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In this episode of Transform Your Workplace, Brandon Laws interviews Matt Beane, author of The Skill Code, to explore how skill development is being disrupted by modern productivity demands and technology. Beane highlights the timeless power of mentorship and hands-on learning, tracing its roots from ancient craftsmanship to today's robotic surgeries. However, he also warns that prioritizing productivity over skill-building risks “de-skilling” the workforce. Leaders, if you're serious about preserving expertise and fostering growth in your organization, this episode is a must-listen.   TAKEAWAYS Mentorship and hands-on learning have always been essential for skill development, from ancient craftsmanship to modern robotic surgery.  Effective learning happens when people are challenged to grow, explore broader systems, and build trust with others.  Many workers, called "shadow learners," find informal ways to learn, like using technology or online resources, but this can lead to both innovation and risks. Systems focused too much on productivity can unintentionally prevent skill-building, leaving workers underprepared.  Organizations need simple ways to identify and address skill gaps early. Leaders should continually refine their strategies to ensure their teams stay skilled and adaptable.   A QUICK GLIMPSE INTO OUR PODCAST 

This is one of Mark's favorite episodes, where he got to speak one on one with Terra and, even better, got to hear her sing live. Singer-Songwriter and YouTube pioneer Terra Naomi joined Mark in studio for some terrific conversation and musical magic Terra talked about singing as an infant before she could walk, growing up with hippie parents who grew some interesting crops, how her song “Say It's Possible” went viral and how she was the #1 musical artist on YouTube for a time, how she connects with her fans, how signing with Island Records turned out to be a mistake and a learning experience, how Al Gore inspired her to write the song that would change her life and how she accidentally sent Vice-President Gore a Friendster request, how it felt to sing to 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium for the Live Earth concert which earned her props from Spinal Tap and Jamie Lee Curtis. Terra also sings “Machine Age” and “For My Last Number” live in studio

As with all episodes of this podcast there are spoilers ahead! For full detailed shownotes (without character limits) you can choose this episode on the watch page here and scroll down. I would love for you to join in by watching the film Just Imagine which is available here.If you would like to share your thoughts on the film or the episode you can do that on Instagram. DescriptionHow did the US make a lighthearted, musical rom-com in answer to the grand German dystopia of Metropolis? Just Imagine was made by David Butler who was hot off the success of another musical: Sunny Side Up (1929).Just Imagine was released in November of 1930 a little over a year after the Wall Street Crash. Sound had become commonplace in movie theatres and musicals were drawing in the crowds. Just Imagine had a budget of approximately $1.1 million.The film is set in 1980. Unsurprisingly there are no synth bands or shoulder pads. There is, however, a glorious retro-futuristic glimpse into what the vision of the future looked like for the people of 1930. The film is very different to its big budget predecessors Aelita Queen of Mars and Metropolis. Just Imagine is a light-hearted, musical rom-com and offers very little anxiety about technology or the future. I had considered titling the episode 'Just Imagine Being Optimistic About the Future!'. Luckily I have procured some heavyweight experts to explain how techno-optimism was par for the course in the machine age USA.The ExpertsJay Telotte is a Professor Emeritus of film and media studies at Georgia Tech. He has written extensively about film history for decades including many books and articles on science fiction cinema. He wrote the article Just Imagine-ing the Metropolis of Modern America in 1996.Lisa Yaszek is back with us! She is Regents' Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, has written/edited multiple books on science fiction and teaches Just Imagine as part of a futurism, fashion, and science fiction design class. She was recently received the SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Science Fiction Scholarship.Chapters:00:00 Intro to the show and guests01:41 The perfect storm for a musical rom-com sci-fi04:55 Musicals 08:19 Science Fiction10:26 Swedish accents, gender and the other queen of Mars15:10 Optimism, World's Fairs and technocracy19:53 The futurists and fashion24:26 Visionary tech hits and misses28:50 Good and evil of sci-fi fashion31:47 The death of the big-budget futurist film33:27 Visual legacy: Flash Gordon, Frankenstein & Buck Rodgers35:29 Sci-fi musical Vs sci-fi horror37:34 Conclusions40:07 RecommendationsNEXT EPISODE!We will  be speaking about the 1933 original King Kong! The film is available to buy or rent on many streaming channels. You can check the 'Just Watch' website to get details on where. You can also watch the film here.Send me a text message.

Wir präsentieren euch die Gaming News der Woche 13/2024! Diese Woche diskutieren wir unter anderem: 0:00:00 Strategen-News und Neuerscheinungen 0:01:20 Neue Games 0:05:14 7-Tage-Beta von Frostpunk 2 0:07:58 Planet Zoo Console Edition 0:11:23 Coming soon 0:23:01 Updates und Patches 0:25:09 The Machine Age für Stellaris 0:33:43 der deutsxhe Computerspielpreis 0:41:19 Embracer, der Verkauf von Saber Interactive 0:50:58 Tencent 1:05:38 Bungie und Playstation, der Ausblick Folgt uns auf Social Media, um keine Neuigkeiten zu verpassen, und zögert nicht, uns eure Meinungen zu den News zu senden. Wir freuen uns auf eure Gedanken und Fragen. Links zur Show: https://linktr.ee/diestrategen Stefan: ⁠https://direct.me/cheekyboinc Dominik: ⁠https://twitter.com/DerNik79⁠ Kontakt: diestrategen.podcast at gmail.com Bis zum nächsten Mal, Strategen!

Embark on a thought-provoking journey with host Ginny Yurich in 'Motherhood in the Machine Age.' Joining her is the eminent AI expert Jerry Kaplan. In this episode they delve into the profound impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on our children's education and the ever-evolving job market. The episode navigates the fundamental questions every mother faces about their child's future – from what skills to expose them to, understanding the tools available, the importance of social skills and hobbies, to envisioning a future with things like custom tutors offering individualized education. This insightful conversation extends beyond the classroom, exploring the transformative shifts in the job market. Kaplan provides a reassuring perspective on the role of automation, emphasizing the evolution of jobs rather than their extinction. As mothers ponder the prospect of machines imparting knowledge to their children, the podcast addresses the skepticism and highlights the importance of preparing the younger generation for a future where technology and humanity seamlessly coexist. 'Motherhood in the Machine Age' is an essential guide for moms navigating the AI revolution, offering valuable insights into shaping a future where education meets the demands of a dynamic job market. ** Learn more about Jerry Kaplan here >> https://jerrykaplan.com/ Get your copy of Generative Artificial Intelligence here >> https://amzn.to/3UNqojE ** Download your free 1000 Hours Outside tracker here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/trackers Find everything you need to kick off your 1000 Hours Outside Journey here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/allthethings Order of copy of Ginny's newest book, Until the Streetlights Come On here >> https://amzn.to/3RXjBlN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"―Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot―and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review. Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism. Jane Scimeca is Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. @JaneScimeca1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, recorded live at the UnHerd cafe in London, Nick Spencer speaks to Robert Skidelsky about his book The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning. Once upon a time, we had faith in technology. Machines would make our lives easier, simpler, more comfortable. Today… well, faith in technological fixes for our problems is on the wane. Worse, it's often replaced with fear. The companies want our data. The robots want our jobs. The government our freedoms. In his latest book, The Machine Age, Robert Skidelsky looks at humanity's long relationship with machines, exploring how we got here and what happens next. How serious is the risk of mass unemployment, a world of politicised deep-fakes, a Chinese-style social credit system? And what, if anything, can we do about them? Reading our Times is the podcast from Theos think tank that engages with the books and ideas that are shaping the world today. It is hosted by Theos' Senior Fellow, Nick Spencer. In this special live recording, Robert Skidelsky joins Nick to discuss The Machine Age: an idea, a history, a warning. Buy a copy of The Machine Age here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Machine-Age-Idea-History-Warning/dp/0241244617 ***** Like what you see? Be sure to sign up to the Theos monthly newsletter to stay up-to-date with all our content, research and events: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/E9E17CAB71AC7464 CONNECT WITH THEOS Twitter: https://twitter.com/Theosthinktank Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theosthinktank LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theos---the-think-tank/ Website: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/ CHECK OUT OUR PODCASTS The Sacred: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sacred/id1326888108 Reading Our Times: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reading-our-times/id1530952185

2024 ist gelandet und so auch Robin und Jan! Im neuen Jahr starten die beiden mit weniger KI/AI und mehr Rück- und Vorausblick! Unter welchem Stern stand 2023 und wo könnte es 2024 mit Recruiting und HR hingehen? Hört rein und viel Spaß!

A Dinant, la 3a armata tedesca si macchia di uno dei più tremendi crimini di guerra sui civili durante l'invasione del Belgio. Nel frattempo, le fortezze di Namur tentano di bloccare l'avanzata germanica, ma i Tedeschi hanno imparato la lezione di Liegi.Seguimi su Instagram: laguerragrande_podcastScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:E. D. Brose, The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870–1918, Oxford University Press, 2001James Edward Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne August–October 1914, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Macmillan, 1926Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013Holger Herwig, The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World, Random House, 2009J. Horne, A. Kramer, German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, Yale University Press, 2001M. O. Humphries, J.Maker, Der Weltkrieg: 1914 The Battle of the Frontiers and Pursuit to the Marne. Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013Barbara Tuchman, Guns of August, 1962S. Tyng, The Campaign of the Marne 1914, Westholme Publishing, 2007Léon Van Der Essen, The Invasion and the War in Belgium from Liège to the Yser, Unwin, 1917Thilo Vogelsang, Hausen, Max Freiherr von, Neue Deutsche Biographie 8, 1969In copertina: uno scorcio pittoresco di Dinant prima del 1914. Della bella cittadina, dopo il massacro e la razzia dei tedeschi, rimasero solo macerie.

We are part of a complex technological system. We depend on this system for the way we work, the way we live, the way we think. How do we choose and regulate the technology which will help us build better futures for people, place and planet?Drawing from his new book ‘The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning', economic historian Robert Skidelsky sheds light on our fractured relationship with machines from humanity's first tools down to the present and into the future. He traces the interactions between capitalism and technology, and between science and religion in the making of the modern world.Navigating the risks and opportunities presented by technological advancement, Lord Skidelsky explores the evolution of our understanding of technology and what this means for our lives and politics.#RSATechnologyBecome an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueembDonate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNBFollow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorgLike RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYUJoin our Fellowship: https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/join

La cavalleria belga, usando delle tattiche moderne, riesce a ottenere una simbolica e inattesa vittoria su quella germanica nella battaglia di Halen. Nel frattempo i forti di Liegi vengono colpiti da delle nuove armi devastanti, alle quali nessuna delle precauzioni prese dai soldati belgi può permettere di resistere.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoCon la partecipazione di Matteo RibolliFonti dell'episodio:Eric D. Brose, The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870–1918, Oxford University Press, 2001Clayton Donnell, The Forts of the Meuse in World War I, Osprey Publishing, 2007Michael Duffy, The battle of Halen, 1914, First World War, 2009James E. Edmonds, Appendix 5: Order of battle of the Belgian Army in August 1914, History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium 1914, Macmillan & Co., 1922Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013Holger Herwig, The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World, Random House, 2009M. O. Humphries, J.Maker, Der Weltkrieg: 1914 The Battle of the Frontiers and Pursuit to the Marne. Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August, 1962Peter Van Den Hove, Halen, 12th of August, 1914. A forgotten battle in a forgotten landscape?, Flanders Heritage Agency, 2014Léon Van Der Essen, The Invasion and the War in Belgium from Liège to the Yser, Unwin, 1917In copertina: La battaglia degli elmi d'argento, G. Von Boddien. La carica della cavalleria tedesca contro i ciclisti belgi.

Perpetually replenishing his organs by inducing his cells to behave like those of an early embryo, Arnold continues the 100th year of his podcast. In Fight Like An Animal 2120: Vivimancer, we examine the end of the Machine Age and the subsequent Biological Revolution, providing both an introduction for new practitioners and a history of the practice of vivimancy, which translates to “life magic,” a form of synthetic biology in which direct interaction with living systems replaces technology. In this episode, we describe the water carrier, an organism which desalinates the Pacific ocean with the same proteins found in human cell membranes, transports the water through its long cylindrical body to eastern Oregon, and gives birth to a vast forest operating at 100% photosynthetic efficiency, one of many such systems which radically shift the ratio of atmospheric to biological carbon. We examine the means by which vivmancers visualize and affect the status of such organisms, down to the molecular level, via signals which travel through modified neurons and specialized connective tissues, and thus describe the endless meditation by which a vivamancer unifies with another organism, sensations traveling through vast oceans and distant mountains into a human body.  Full episode can be found on Patreon. 

Lexman Artificial interviews Yoshua Bengio, world-renowned expert in machine learning and AI. They discuss Bengio's contributions to the field, including his work on bombastic algorithms and his studies of glass-blowing and Jointer cytomegalovirus. In the end, Lexman invites Bengio to be a pretender—an AI lifeform that pretend to be human, in order to learn more about humanity.

Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won't Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood as a collective dead end.

Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at MIT and a principal research scientist at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, talks about his new book, "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies." In it, he argues that technological change is transforming the way work is done and will continue to do so through the next century. Brynjolfsson discusses the impact of new digital technologies on the economy, including 3D printing, artificial intelligence and the sharing economy. He also discusses how the changing nature of work affects society as a whole.

TW: Violência, Baixo Calão, Citação a violência sexual envolvendo menores, religião como manipulação E as aventuras de Valdeci (Fábio), Carina (Cicerone) e Maradona (Palomita), continuam, com os Fate Masters de volta à mesa para encerrar essa aventura de #iHunt! Os Fate Masters voltam ao Hell de Janeiro, #sendofodidos, enquanto tentam escapar com vida (e se possível com algum no bolso) da ameaça de um Demônio político (em todos os sentidos) enquanto salvam um milagreiro de verdade, agora com a ajuda do Velho Lich, que deixa a cadeira de Narrador (que passa ao Cicerone) e assume a de jogador com um caçador veterano disposto a ajudar o time, o Professor Jonas Beltrão. Entre cópias descaradas de aplicativos de celular, Lenovo vs Dell, violência policial, transformadores explodindo no morro, momentos PIRATEANDO O PLANETA! em motéis de alta rotatividade e uma paixão que surge (ao menos de um deles), os #iHunters se encontram em uma encruzilhada: dinheiro, moral, ambos ou nenhum? Qual será a opção? E quais serão as consequências dos mesmos? Às vezes, #serfodido é melhor do que ter uma Luta Justa! Lembrando que #iHunt bateu a meta do Financiamento Coletivo Flex pela IndieVisível Press, e você pode conhecer mais na comunidade do #iHunt no Facebook e na página do #iHunt em inglês pela Machine Age. Para saber ainda mais sobre #iHunt, caso esteja caindo de paraquedas, ouça os nossos episódios onde analisamos o #iHunt e onde falamos com o Leonardo Himura da IndieVisível Press, além de obviamente ouvir a 1ª Parte dessa aventura caso tenha a perdido! E sempre podem contactar os Fate Masters na comunidade do Movimento Fate Brasil, pelo Discord do Movimento Fate Brasil, e, em especial nesse episódio, pelo email fatemasterspodcast@gmail.com. E por meio dele vocês poderão pedir a Parte 2 dessa mesa. E lembrando… A Lei de Olívia Hill continua valendo, sempre! E a prova do crime (faltando apenas +2 da Referência Hacker de Valdeci e +1 de ajuda passiva do Professor), para um +21 Link para o programa em MP3 Participantes: Fábio Emilio Costa Luís Cavalheiro Maína “Palomita” Paloma de Lima Rafael Sant'anna Meyer Duração: 137min Cronologia do Podcast: 00:00:01 - Alerta de Recomendação Etária e Gatilhos 00:01:17 - Introdução ao podcast, e comentários sobre o financiamento coletivo de iHunt e sobre o Cicerone assumindo a cadeira do narrador 00:08:05 - Previously on… iHunt: recaptulando os eventos da mesa anterior, enquanto os iHunters são aguardando a cavalaria, e somos apresentados ao Professor Jonas 00:29:08 - Enquanto Maradona faz uma corrida no 99, Valdeci prepara umas proteções para caso o kisuco ferva e Carina precise dar o pé, e descobrem que a corrida do 99 era para o Professor Jonas, enquanto planos são elaborados para tirar o toba de todo mundo da reta 01:00:05 - Maradona usa seus contatos da época do Movimento para obter um favor do dono do Morro da Vila Cruzeiro, Pelé 01:07:50 - Maradona extrai a família do Pelé do Morro, enquanto Carina e Valdeci dão seus pulos para ganhar tempo para os carros de extração os resgatar para fora do morro, e o Professor Jonas consegue ganhar algum tempo quando os carros chegam 01:19:39 - Quando os carros de extração saem cantando pneu, começa a perseguição da polícia contra os iHunters, com Maradona abalroando os carros da polícia em um momento Pica-Pau Rachador, Jonas chama a atenção (e a raiva) da população do Morro, a Polícia atira para todos os lados (menos nos carros) e Valdeci usa sua Flashbang Improvisada para estourar um transformador. Afinal de contas, Em Caso de Dúvida… C4. Amanhã o Morro desce! Isso vai passar na Grobo! 01:32:01 - Valdeci explica seu plano… Invadir o Lobato, roubar o código e mostrar que viola o iHunt, usar os servidores do mesmo para disseminar as provas do pastor e destruir a reputação do pastor-demonho. Enquanto isso, Maradona conta a novidade para Carina: ela é a gata do Maradona. No meio do caminho, o Professor prepara um Chamado às Armas contra o Lobato e Valdeci ativa seus Cyberarmamentos. E ao executar o plano, um +21 com a Vantagem é tudo que é necessário para provocar um momento PIRATEANDO O PLANETA! 01:58:17 - No fim… O passado de Valdeci faz ele decidir se mandar, dar um perdido para tentar a sorte fora do Breasil (e do iHunt), enquanto deixa algo para Carina e Maradona. 02:05:32 - Considerações Finais Links Relacionados: Parte 1 do jogo de #iHunt dos Fate Masters IndieVisível (Facebook) Episódio de #iHunt Movimento Fate Brasil (Facebook) Movimento Fate Brasil (Discor) #iHunt Brasil (Facebook) Página do #iHunt em Inglês (Facebook) Catarse do #iHunt em Português Ficha da Carina Ficha do Diego Ficha do Valdeci Ficha do Professor Jonas Link para a comunidade do Google+ do Fate Masters Comente esse post no site do Fate Masters! Assine no iTunes Trilha Sonora do Podcast: Cutting Edge por Shane Ivers Ambient Pills por Zeropage Ambient Pills Update por Zeropage

I had a return guest today with Quinn Johnson the Creator of Elders of the Runestone comic series. It recently launched and I sat down and asked him some questions that reflected on the journey of creating the series. Here is a bit about Quinn: QUINN JOHNSON mrwonderfulproductions.com IG: @quinnmrwonderful Comics Work: Tales of the TMNT, Kung Fu Panda, Richie Rich, Scrapyard Detectives Games Work: Disney Infinity, Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland, Machine Age, unreleased AR game To learn more about Quinn and the Elders of the Runestone visit: https://www.runestonecomic.com/ Thank you for listening!

Our first face-to-face live episode with Greg Orme. Even before the pandemic, it seemed the world was spinning so fast it's difficult to keep up. Arguably a lot of the technological disruption that was around in 2019 simply got accelerated – remote working, digitization, and AI to name just three.  Our guest today notes in his book: Two hundred and fifty years ago the Industrial Revolution replaced our arms and legs at work. The fourth Industrial Revolution is now replacing our brains.   He says The Machine Age is engulfing both organizations and people. This shift is challenging the very essence of what it means to be human. His book The Human Edge, how curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy won Business Book of the year in 2020.   He explores the skills you need to survive and thrive in a world of smartphones and AI. He urges you to stop competing, and instead do things machines can't. To become a more human, human. We welcome the author of “The Human Edge” Greg Orme. https://gregorme.org

TW: Violência, Baixo Calão, Citação a violência sexual envolvendo menores, religião como manipulação E os Fate Masters estão de volta! E fazendo algo que não faziam a muito tempo no Podcast: jogando uma mesa! E não uma mesa qualquer, uma mesa de #iHunt! Fábio (o Mr. Mickey), Rafael (o Velho Lich), Maína (a Palomita) e Luíz Cavalheiro (o Cicerone) decidem colocar à prova #iHunt, jogando em uma caçada genuinamente brasileira. Esqueça o Rio de Janeiro dos Playba ou do verão da lata! Aqui é a Cidade Maravilha Purgatório da Beleza e do Caos, Rafael, como o narrador, guia os três outros Fate Masters como caçadores em busca de uma grana adicional para os mais diversos fins: Valdeci Andrade (Fábio), um Fui Disneymaníaco que, entre um dia e outro de “conserto” de aparalhos celulares de procedência duvidosa travados nos bloqueios do Google, atua como Hacker para o grupo oferecendo informações; Carina Souza (Luiz), a Cavala que, enquanto vende trufa no trem lotado da Central, arruma uns corres no #iHunt para juntar uma grana para bancar sua esperança de um campeonato internacional de MMA; E Diego da Silva, o Maradona (Maína), um 66 que até recentemente estava no Movimento, uma estrela em ascenção do Poder Paralelo do Rio, mas que procura uma forma de sair do crime e dar uma vida decente para a mãe. Se para isso, precisar apagar um monstro (ou um deputado costa quente), que seja; Entre celulares de procedência duvidosa, cultos religiosos, guerra de facções, possessões demoníacas, aplicativos paralelos ao #iHunt e pastores disputando a fé (e o dinheiro) das pessoas, os três #iHunters vão colocar sua reputação, recursos, e até mesmo a vida em risco… Três estrelas, 15 mil… Vale tudo isso? Arraste para a direita e vamos ver o que acontece! Mas apenas tome cuidado, ou você terá sua luta justa… E como dizem os tugas, você dará o peido mestre! Lembrando que #iHunt está em Financiamento Coletivo Flex (ou seja, ao financiar você já garante o seu) em português pela IndieVisível Press, e você pode conhecer mais na comunidade do #iHunt no Facebook e na página do #iHunt em inglês pela Machine Age. Para saber ainda mais sobre #iHunt, caso esteja caindo de paraquedas, ouça os nossos episódios onde analisamos o #iHunt e onde falamos com o Leonardo Himura da IndieVisível Press. E sempre podem contactar os Fate Masters na comunidade do Movimento Fate Brasil, pelo Discord do Movimento Fate Brasil, e, em especial nesse episódio, pelo email fatemasterspodcast@gmail.com. E por meio dele vocês poderão pedir a Parte 2 dessa mesa. E lembrando… A Lei de Olívia Hill continua valendo, sempre! Atualização Como foi dito no episódio, a personagem Carina Souza foi inspirada em uma pessoa real. Júlia Polastri é uma lutadora de MMA nascida em Duque de Caxias/RJ que vende trufas no ramal Saracuruna dos trens da Supervia a fim de complementar a renda e conseguir manter-se disputando os torneios. Caso você queira saber mais sobre ela, ou mesmo conhecer e divulgar o trabalho da atleta, siga a Júlia no Instagram. Link para o programa em MP3 Participantes: Fábio Emilio Costa Luís Cavalheiro Maína “Palomita” Paloma de Lima Rafael Sant'anna Meyer Duração: 79min Cronologia do Podcast: 00:00:01 - Alerta de Recomendação Etária e Gatilhos 00:01:27 - Apresentação da “primeira parte” do Episódio, com a “Sessão 0” do jogo de #iHunt 00:12:35 - Começando o jogo, onde é feita a apresentação do Hell de Janeiro, e o contrato e o alvo é apresentado aos personagens, e um dos NPCs importantes… O Pastor Emanuel. Além de iPhone vs Android e como tirar dinheiro com uma Roupa de Mickey 00:35:36 - Na casa do Valdeci, em meio a uma casa onde a Makita tora todo fim de semana, entre cacarecos Disney e equipamento de tecnologia, os personagens investigam mais sobre o alvo… E percebe que tem coisa esquisita, já que parece que o mesmo entende das coisas 00:49:32 - Na Ilha do Governador, os caçadores vão a um culto, onde uma possessão demoníaca realmente acontece, e eles percebem que o alvo realmente tem algo interessante 01:08:44 - Após o culto, eles percebem que o Alvo realmente tem fé e sabe fazer as coisas… E descobrem que estão sendo usados… Junto com um aplicativo paralelo ao #iHunt no Brasil… Com uma Caçada muito mais interessante! 01:22:38 - Enquanto procuram proteger o pastor, eles são alvejados por assassinos, mas os caçadores se sobressaem com os “brinquedinhos” da AliExpress de Valdeci… 01:32:59 - Agora, apesar da Aparente segurança, os caçadores perderam a caçada original, e descobrem que nas Caçadas de Pedrinho, eles agora SÃO A CAÇA! Para proteger sua mãe, Diego recorre aos amigos do movimento, e uma guerra de facções começa! Enquanto isso, uma Malina ajuda os caçadores sobre o verdadeiro Alvo! 01:48:17 - os caçadores recebem do pastor todas as provas, e, enquanto Carina e Diego vão resgatar a mãe de Diego no meio da Guerra de Facções, Valdeci protege o pastor e aciona a #OpsFakeMessiah contra o verdadeiro Alvo! 02:02:18 - enquanto os 66 disseminam informações que complicam o Alvo… A Malina retorna e avisa que ainda terão que esperar um tempo antes de poderem lidar diretamente com o alvo… O que eles podem não ter… Fica para o próximo episódio! 02:08:13 - Considerações Finais… E pedido para que as pessoas falem para que continuemos em um próximo episódio! Nos falem em fatemasterspodcast@gmail.com Links Relacionados: IndieVisível (Facebook) Episódio de #iHunt Movimento Fate Brasil (Facebook) Movimento Fate Brasil (Discor) #iHunt Brasil (Facebook) Página do #iHunt em Inglês (Facebook) Catarse do #iHunt em Português Ficha da Carina Ficha do Diego Ficha do Valdeci Link para a comunidade do Google+ do Fate Masters Comente esse post no site do Fate Masters! Assine no iTunes Trilha Sonora do Podcast: Hard Sell Hotel por Shane Ivers Ambient Pills por Zeropage Ambient Pills Update por Zeropage

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The first machine age was about mechanical machines. We now live in a time of thinking machines. Erik Brynjolfsson joins Vasant Dhar in episode 18 of Brave New World to talk about the impact of AI on productivity and inequality -- and to explain why he remains optimistic about the prospects for humans in the AI era.   Useful resources: 1. The Second Machine Age -- Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. 2. Erik Brynjolfsson's website, SSRN page and Google Scholar page. 3. The coming productivity boom --  Erik Brynjolfsson and Georgios Petropoulos 4. Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox -- Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock & Chad Syverson. 5. The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies --  Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock and Chad Syverson. 6. How Should We Measure the Digital Economy? -- Erik Brynjolfsson and Avinash Collis. 7. GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy -- Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, W. Erwin Diewert, Felix Eggers & Kevin J. Fox. 8. Digital Capital and Superstar Firms -- Prasanna Tambe, Lorin Hitt, Daniel Rock & Erik Brynjolfsson. 9. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work -- Congressional Testimony of Erik Brynjolfsson (September 24, 2019). 10. Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis -- Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Jason Dowlatabadi. 11. Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? -- Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiang Hui & Meng Liu. 12. The Economics of Superstars -- Sherwin Rosen. 13. General Purpose Technologies "Engines of Growth?" -- Timothy F. Bresnahan & Manuel Trajtenberg. 14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism -- Anne Case and Angus Deaton. 15. Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren -- John Maynard Keynes. 16. Understanding QE in the New World -- Episode 10 of Brave New World (w Paul Sheard). 17. The Nature of Intelligence -- Episode 7 of Brave New World (w Yann LeCun). 18. Uplift the Unremarkables -- Episode 2 of Brave New World (w Scott Galloway).

01:20 - The Superpower of Sociotechnical System (STS) Design: Considering the Social AND the Technical. The social side matters. * Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity by Michael C. Jackson (https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Systems-Thinking-Management-Complexity/dp/1119118379) * Open Systems * Mechanical * Animate * Social * Ecological * On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events (https://www.amazon.com/Purposeful-Systems-Interdisciplinary-Analysis-Individual/dp/0202307980/ref=sr_1_3?crid=IJR9EM3K73NE&dchild=1&keywords=on+purposeful+systems&qid=1625847353&sprefix=on+purposeful+systems%2Cstripbooks%2C157&sr=8-3) 09:14 - The Origins of Sociotechnical Systems * Taylorism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management) * Trond Hjorteland: Sociotechnical Systems Design for the “Digital Coal Mines”* (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sociotechnical-systems-design-digital-coal-mines-trond-hjorteland/) * Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1970.tb00505.x) 18:42 - Design From Above vs Self-Organization * Participative Design * Idealized Design * Solving Problems is not Systems Thinking 29:39 - Systemic Change and Open Systems * Organizationally Closed but Structurally Open * Getting Out of the Machine Age and Into Systems Thinking (The Information Age) * The Basis for the Viable System Model / Stafford Beer // Javier Livas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaLHocBdG3A) * What is Cybernetics? Conference by Stafford Beer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6orMfmorg) * Jean Yang: Developer Experience: Stuck Between Abstraction and a Hard Place? (https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/developer-experience-stuck-between-abstraction-and-a-hard-place) * The Embodiment and Hermeneutic Relations 37:47 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution) * 4 Historical Stages in the Development of Work * Mechanization * Automation * Centralization * Computerization * Ironies of Automation by Lisanne Bainbridge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation) * Ten challenges for making automation a "team player" in joint human-agent activity (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1363742) * Jessica Kerr - Principles of Collaborative Automation (https://vimeo.com/369277964) Reflections: Jessica: “You are capable of taking in stuff that you didn't know you see.” – Trond Trond: In physics we do our best to remove the people and close it as much as possible. In IT it's opposite; We work in a completely open system where the human part is essential. Rein: What we call human error is actually a human's inability to cope with complexity. We need to get better at managing complexity; not controlling it. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Transcript: REIN: Welcome to Episode 242 of Greater Than Code. I'm here with my friend, Jessica Kerr. JESSICA: Thanks, Rein and I'm excited because today we are here with Trond Hjorteland. Trond is an IT architect aspiring sociotechnical systems designer from the consulting firm Scienta.no—that's no as in the country code for Norway, not no as in no science. Trond has many years of experience with large, complex, business critical systems as a developer and an architect on middleware and backend applications so he's super interested in service orientation, domain driven design—went like that one—event driven architectures and of course, sociotechnical systems, which is our topic today! These happen in industries across the world like telecom, media, TV, government. Trond's mantra is, “Great products emerge from collaborative sensemaking and design.” I concur. Trond, welcome to Greater Than Code! TROND: Thank you for having me. It's fun being here. JESSICA: Trond, as a Northern European, I know our usual question about superpowers makes you nervous. So let me change it up a little bit: what is your superpower of sociotechnical system design? TROND: Oh, that's a good one. I'm glad you turned it over because we are from the land of the Jante, as you may have heard of, where people are not supposed to be anything better than anybody else. So being a superhero, that's not something that we are accustomed to now, so to speak. So the topic there, sociotechnical system, what makes you a superhero by having that perspective? I think it's in the name, really. Do you actually join the social and the technical aspects of things, whatever you do? But my focus is mainly in organizations and in relation to a person, or a team cooperating, designing IT solutions, and stuff like that, that you have to consider both the social and the technical and I find that we have too much – I have definitely done that. Focused too much on the technical aspects and not ignoring the social aspects, but at least when we are designing stuff we frequently get too attached to the technical aspects. So I think we need that balance. JESSICA: Yeah. TROND: So I guess, that is my superpower I get from that. JESSICA: When we do software design, we think we're designing software, which we think is made of technical code and infrastructure, and that software is made by people and for people and imagine that. Social side matters. TROND: Yeah, and I must say that since Agile in the early 2000s, the focus on the user has been increasing. I think that's better covered than it used to be, but I still think we miss out on we part that we create software and that is that humans actually create software. We often talk about the customer, for example. I guess, many of your listeners are creating such a system that actually the customers are using, like there's an end user somewhere. But frequently, there's also internal users of that system that you create like backend users, or there's a wide range of others stakeholders as well and – [overtalk] JESSICA: Internal users of customer facing systems? TROND: For example, yes. Like back office, for example. I'm working for our fairly large telecom operation and of course, their main goal is getting and keeping the end users, paying customers, but it's also a lot of stuff going on in the backend, in the back office like supporting customer service support, there is delivery of equipment to the users, there's shipment, there is maintenance, all that stuff, there's assurance of it. So there's a lot of stuff going on in that domain that we rarely think of when we create their IT systems, I find at least. JESSICA: But when we're making our software systems, we're building the company, we're building the next version of this company, and that includes how well can people in the back office do their jobs. TROND: Exactly. JESSICA: And us, like we're also creating the next version of software that we need to change and maintain and keep running and respond to problems in. I like to think about the developer interface. TROND: Exactly, and that is actually, there's an area where the wider sociotechnical term has popped up probably more frequently than before. It's actually that, because we think of the inter policies we need and organize the teams around for example, services are sometimes necessary and stuff like that. JESSICA: Inter policies, you said. TROND: Yeah, the inter policies offices go into this stuff. So we are looking into that stuff. We are getting knowledge on how to do that, but I find we still are not seeing the whole picture, though. Yes, that is important to get the teams right because you want them to not interact too much but enough so we want – [overtalk] JESSICA: Oh yeah, I love it that the book says, “Collaboration is not the goal! Collaboration is expensive and it's a negative to need to do it, but sometimes you need to.” TROND: Yeah, exactly. So that'd be a backstory there. So the main system, I think and the idea is that you have a system consisting of parts and what sociotechnical systems focus a lot about is the social system. There is a social system and that social system, those parts are us as developers and those parts are stakeholders of course, our users and then you get into this idea of an open system. I think it was Bertanlanffy who coined that, or looked into that. JESSICA: Bertanlanffy open systems. TROND: Open system, yeah. JESSICA: Fair warning to readers, all of us have been reading this book, Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity by Michael C. Jackson and we may name drop a few systems thinking historical figures. TROND: Yes, and Bertanlanffy is one of those early ones. I think he actually developed some of the idea before the war, but I think he wrote the book after—I'm not sure, 1950s, or something—on general system thinking. It's General Systems Theory and he was also looking into this open system thing and I think this is also something that for example, Russell Ackoff took to heart. So he had to find four type of systems. He said there was a mechanical system, like people would think of when they hear system, like it's a technical thing. Like a machine, for example, your car is a system. But then they also added, there was something more that's another type of system, which is animal system, which is basically us. We consist of parts, but we have a purpose that is different from us than a car that makes us different. And then you take a lot of those parts and combine them, then you've got a social system. The interesting thing with the social system is that that system in of its own have a purpose, but also, the parts have a purpose. That's the thing which is different from the other thing. For an animal system, your parts don't have a purpose. Your heart doesn't really have a purpose; it's not giving a purpose. It doesn't have an end goal, so to speak that. There's nothing in – [overtalk] JESSICA: No, it has a purpose within the larger system. TROND: Yeah. JESSICA: But it doesn't have self-actualization. TROND: It's not purposeful. That's probably the word that I – [overtalk] JESSICA: Your heart isn't sitting there thinking, going beat, beat, beat. It does that, but it's not thinking it. TROND: No, exactly. [laughter] TROND: So I think actually Ackoff and I think there was a book called On Purposeful Systems, which I recommend. It's really a dense book. The Jackson book, it's long, but it's quite verbose so it's readable. Like the On Purposeful Systems is designed to be short and concise so it's basically just a list of bullet points almost. It's just a really hard read. But they get into the difference between a purposeful system and a goal-seeking system. Your heart will be goal-seeking. It has something to achieve, but it doesn't have a purpose in a sense. So that's the thing, which is then you as a person and you as a part of a social system and that's where I think the interesting thing comes in and that's where we're sociotechnical system really takes this on board is that in a social system, you have a set of individuals and you also have technical aspects of those system as well so that's the sociotechnical thing. JESSICA: Now you mentioned Ackoff said four kinds of systems. TROND: Yeah. H: Mechanical, animal, social? TROND: And then there's ecological. JESSICA: And then ecological, thanks. TROND: Yeah. So the ecological one is that where every parts have a purpose like us, but the whole doesn't have a purpose on its own. Like the human kind is not purposeful and we should be probably. [laughs] For example, with climate change and all that, but we are not. Not necessarily. REIN: This actually relates a little bit to the origins of sociotechnical systems because it came about as a way to improve workplace democracy and if you look at the history of management theory, if you look at Taylorism, which was the dominant theory at the time, the whole point of Taylorism is to take purposefulness away from the workers. So the manager decides on the tasks, the manager decides how the tasks are done—there's one right way to do the tasks—and the worker just does those actions. Basically turning the worker into a machine. So Taylorism was effectively a way to take a social system, affirm a company, and try to turn it into an animate system where the managers had purpose and the workers just fulfilled a purpose. TROND: Exactly. REIN: And sociotechnical system said, “What if we give the power of purposefulness back to the workers?” Let them choose the task, let them choose the way they do their tasks. TROND: Exactly, and this is an interesting theme because at the same time, as Taylor was developing his ideas, there were other people having similar ideas, like sociotechnical, but we never heard of them a late like Mary Parker Follett, for example. She was living at the same time, writing stuff at the same time, but the industry wasn't interested in listening to her because it didn't fit their machine model. She was a contrary to that and this was the same thing that sociotechnical system designers, or researchers, to put it more correctly, also experienced, for example, in a post-war England, in the coal mines. JESSICA: Oh yeah, tell us about the coal mines. TROND: Yeah, because that's where the whole sociotechnical system theory was defined, or was first coined what was there. There was a set of researchers from the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, which actually came about like an offshoot of the Tavistock Clinic, which was working actually with people struggling from the war after the Second World War. JESSICA: Was that in Norway? TROND: No, that was exactly in England, that was in London. Tavistock is in London. JESSICA: Oh! TROND: Yeah. So it was an offshoot of that because there were researchers there that had the knowledge that there was something specific about the groups. There was somebody called Bion and there was a Kurt Lewin, which I think Jessica, you probably have heard of. JESSICA: Is that Kurt Lewin? TROND: Yes, that's the one. Absolutely. JESSICA: Yeah. He was a psychologist. TROND: Yeah. So he was for example, our main character of the sociotechnical movement in England in the post-war was Eric Trist and he was working closely with Lewin, or Lewin as you Americans call him. They were inspired by the human relations movement, if you like so they saw they had to look into how the people interact. So they observed the miners in England. There was a couple of mines where they had introduced some new technology called the longwall where they actually tried to industrialize the mining. They have gone from autonomous groups into more industrialized, like – [overtalk] JESSICA: Taylorism? TROND: Yes, they had gone all Taylorism, correct. JESSICA: “Your purpose is to be a pair of hands that does this.” TROND: Exactly, and then they had shifts. So one shift was doing one thing, then other shift was doing the second thing and that's how they were doing the other thing. So they were separating people. They had to have been working in groups before, then they were separated to industrialize like efficiently out of each part. JESSICA: Or to grouplike tasks with each other so that you only have one set of people to do a single thing. TROND: Yeah. So one group was preparing and blowing and breaking out the coal, somebody was pushing it out to the conveyors, and somebody else was moving into the instrument, or the machinery to the next place. This is what's the three partnership shifts were like. What they noticed then is that they didn't get the efficiency that they expected from this and also, people were leaving. People really didn't like this way of working; there was a lot of absenteeism and there were a lot of crows and uproar and it didn't go well, this new technology which they had too high hopes for. So then Trist and a couple of others like Bamford observed something that happened in one of the mines that people actually, some of them self-organized and went back to the previous way of working in autonomous teams plus using this new technology. They self-organized in order to actually to be able to work in this alignment, but this was the first time that I saw this type of action that they actually created their own semi-autonomous teams as they called them. JESSICA: So there was some technology that was introduced and when they tried to make it about the technology and get people to use it the way they thought it would be most efficient, it was not effective. TROND: Not effective? JESSICA: But yet the people working in teams were able to use the technology. TROND: Yeah. Actually, so this is the interesting part is when you have complex systems then you can have self-organization happening there and these workers, they were so frustrated. They're like, “Okay. Let's take matters in our own hands, let's create groups where we can actually work together.” So they created these autonomous groups and this was something that Eric Trist and Ken Bamford observed. So they saw that when they did that, the absenteeism and the quality of work-life increased a lot and also, productivity increased a lot. There were a few mines observed that did this and they compared to other mines that didn't and the numbers were quite convincing. So you should think “Oh, this would use them,” everybody would start using this approach. No, they didn't. Of course, management, the leadership didn't want this. They were afraid of losing the power so they worked against it. So just after a few research attempts, there wasn't any leverage there and actually, they increased the industrialization with a next level of invention was created that made it even worse so it grinded to a halt. Sociotechnical was a definer, but it didn't have the good fertile ground to grow. So that's when they came to my native land, to Norway. JESSICA: Ah. TROND: Yeah. So Fred Emery was one of those who worked with Trist and Bramforth a lot back then and also traced himself, actually came to Norway as almost like a governmental project. There was a Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program, I think it was called, it was actually established by – [overtalk] JESSICA: There was a Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program. That is so not American. TROND: [laughs] Exactly. So that probably only happen in Norway, I suppose and there were a lot of reasons for that. One of them is, especially as that we struggled with the industry after the war, because we were just invaded by Germany and was under rule so we had nothing to build. So they got support from America, for example, to rebuild after the war, but also, Norwegians are the specific type of persons, if you like. They don't like to be ruled over. So the high industrial stuff didn't go down well with the workers even worse than in England, but not in mines because we don't have any mines so just like creating nails, or like paper mills. Also, the same thing happened as I said, in England, that people were not happy with the way these things were going. But the problem is in Norway that this was covering all the mines, not just a few mines here and there. This was going all the way up to the – the workers unions were collaborating with the employers unions. So they were actually coming together. This project was established by these two in collaboration and actually, the government was also coming and so, there were three parts to this initiative. And then the Tavistock was called in to help them with this project, or the program to call it. So then it started off your experiments in Norway and then I went more – in England, they observed mostly, like the Tavistock, and in Norway, they actually started designing these type of systems, political systems, they're autonomous work groups and all that. They did live experiments and the like so there was action research as a way of – [overtalk] JESSICA: Oh, action research. TROND: Yeah, where you actually do research on the ground. This was also from Kurt Lewin, I believe. So I know they did a lot of research there and got similar results as in England. But also, this went a bit further than Norway. This actually went into the law, how to do this. So like work participation, for example and there was also this work design thing that came out of it. It's like workers have some demands that goes above just a livable wage. They want the type of job that meant something, where they were supposed to grow, they were supposed to learn on the job, they were supposed to – there were a lot of stuff that they wanted and that was added to actually the law. So this is part of Norwegian law today, what came out of that research. JESSICA: You mentioned that in Norway, they started doing design and yet there's the implication that it's design of self-organizing teams. Is that conflict? Like, design from above versus self-organization. TROND: Yes, it did and that is also something that I discovered in Norway so well-observed, Jessica. This is actually what happened in Norway. So the researchers saw that they were struggling to getting this accepted properly by the workers, then I saw okay, they have to get the workers involved. Then they started with this, what they call participative design. The workers were pulled in to design the work they worked on, or to do together with the researchers, but the researchers were still regarded as experts still. So there was a divide between the researches and the workers, but the workers weren't given a lot of freewill to design how they wanted this to work themselves. One of the latest experiments, I think the workers weren't getting the full freedom to design and I think it was the aluminum industry. I think they were creating a new factory and the workers weren't part of designing how they should work in that factory, this new factory. They saw that they couldn't just come in and “This is how it works in the mines in England, this is how we're going to do it.” That didn't work in Norway. REIN: And one of the things that they've found was that these systems were more adaptable than Taylorism. So there was one of these programs in textile mills in India that had been organized according to scientific management AKA Taylorism. And what they found, one of the problems was that if any perturbation happened, any unexpected event, they stopped working. They couldn't adapt and when they switched to these self-organizing teams, they became better at adaptation, but they also just got more production and higher quality. So it was just a win all around. You're not trading off here, it turns out. JESSICA: You can say we need resilience because of incidents. But in fact, that resilience also gives you a lot of flexibility that you didn't know you needed. TROND: Exactly. You are capable of taking in stuff that you couldn't foresee like anything that happens because the people on the ground who know this best and actually have all the information they need are actually able to adapt. Lots better then to have a structure like a wild process, I think. REIN: One of the principles of resilience engineering is that accidents are normal work. Accidents happen as a result of normal work, which means that normal work has all of the same characteristics. Normal work requires adaptation. Normal work requires balancing trade-offs competing goals. That's all normal work. It just, we see it in incidents because incidents shine a light on what happened. TROND: I think there was an American called Pasmore who coined this really well. He said, “STS design was intended tended to produce a win-win-win-win. Human beings were more committed, technology operated closer to the potential and the organization performed better overall while adapting more readily to changes in its environment.” This has pretty much coining what STS is all about. REIN: Yeah. I'm always on the lookout because they're rare for these solutions that are just strictly better in a particular space. Where you're not making trade-offs, where you get to have it all, that's almost unheard of. JESSICA: It's almost unheard of and yet I feel like we could do a lot of more of it. Who was it who talks about dissolving the problem? REIN: Ackoff. TROND: That's Ackoff, yeah. JESSICA: Yeah, that's Ackoff in Idealized Design. TROND: Where he said – [overtalk] REIN: He said, “The best way to solve a problem is to redesign the system that contains it so that the problem no longer exists.” TROND: Yeah, exactly. JESSICA: And in software, what are some examples of that that we have a lot? Like, the examples where we dissolve coordination problems by saying the same team is responsible for deployment? REIN: I've seen problem architectures be dissolved by a change in the product. It turns out that a better way to do it for users also makes possible a better architecture and so you can stop solving that hard problem that was really expensive. JESSICA: Oh, right. So the example of item potency of complete order buttons: if you move the idea generation to the client, that problem just goes away. TROND: Yeah, and I have to say another example is if you have two teams that work well together. [chuckles] You have to communicate more. Okay, but that doesn't help because that's not where our problem is. If you redesign the teams, for example, then if they – instead of having fun on the backend teams, if you redesign, you have no verticals, then you haven't solved the problem. You have resolved it. It is gone because they are together now in one thing. So I think there is a lot of examples of this, but it is a mindset because people tend to say, if there is something problem, they want to analyze it as it is and then figure out how to fix the parts and then – [overtalk] JESSICA: Yeah, this is our obsession with solving problems! TROND: Yes. JESSICA: Solving problems is not systems thinking. TROND: No, it's not. Exactly. JESSICA: Solving problems is reactive. It feels productive. It can be heroic. Whereas, the much more subtle and often wider scope of removing the problem, which often falls into the social system. When you change the social system, you can resolve technical problems so that they don't exist. That's a lot more congressive and challenging and slower. TROND: It is and that is probably where STS has struggled. It didn't struggle as much, but that is also here compared to the rest of the world. They said because you have to fight – there is a system already in place and that system is honed in on solving problems as you were saying. JESSICA: That whole line management wants to solve the problem by telling them what workers want to do and it's more important that their solution work, then that a solution work. TROND: Yes, exactly and also, because they are put in a system where that's normal. That is common sense to them. So I often come back to that [inaudible] quote is that I get [inaudible], or something like that is that because a person in a company, he's just a small – In this large company, I'm just a small little tiny piece of it; there's no chance in anyhow that I can change it. JESSICA: Yeah. So as developers, one reason that we focus on technical dilutions and technical design is because we have some control over that. TROND: Yes. JESSICA: We don't feel control over the social system, which is because you can never control a social system; you can only influence it. TROND: So what I try to do in an organization is that I try to find a, change agents around in the organization so I get a broader picture not only understanding it, but also record broader set of attacks, if you like it—I'm not just calling it attacks, but you get my gist—so you can create a more profound change not just a little bit here, a little bit though. Because when you change as society, if we solve problems, we focus on the parts and we focus on the parts, we are not going to fix the hole. That is something that Ackoff was very adamant about and he's probably correct. You can optimize – [overtalk] JESSICA: Wait. Who, what? I didn't understand. TROND: Ackoff. JESSICA: Ackoff, that was that. TROND: So if you optimize every part, you don't necessarily make the system better, but he said, “Thank God, you usually do. You don't make it worse.” [laughs] REIN: Yeah. He uses the example of if you want to make a car, so you take the best engine and the best transmission, and you take all of the best parts and what do you have? You don't have a car. You don't have the best car. You don't even have a car because the parts don't fit together. It's entirely possible to make every part better and to make the system worse and you also sometimes need to make a part worse to make the system better. TROND: And that is fascinating. I think that is absolutely fascinating that you have to do that. I have seen that just recently, for example, in our organization, we have one team that is really good at Agile. They have nailed it almost, this team. But the rest of the organization are not as high level and good at Agile and the organization is not thrilled to be Agile in a sense because it's an old project-oriented organization so it is industrialized in a sense. Then you have one team that want to do STS; they want to be an Agile super team. But when they don't fit with the rest, they actually make the rest worse. So actually, in order to make it the whole better, you can't have this local optimizations, you have to see the whole and then you figure out how to make the whole better based on the part, not the other one. JESSICA: Yeah. Because well, one that self-organizing Agile team can't do that properly without having an impact on the rest of the organization. TROND: Exactly. JESSICA: And when the rest of the organization moves much more slowly, you need a team in there that's slower. And I see this happen. I see Agile teams moving too fast that the business isn't ready to accept that many changes so quickly. So we need a slower – they don't think of it this way, but what they do is they add people. They add people and that slows everything down so you have a system that's twice as expensive in order to go slower. That's my theory. TROND: The fascinating thing, though—and this is where the systems idea comes in—is that if you have this team that really honed this, that they have nailed the whole thing exactly, they're moving as fast as they can and all that. But the rest of it, they'll say it's not, then you have to interact the rest of organization, for example. So they have been bottlenecked everywhere they look. So what they end up doing is that they pull in work, more work than they necessarily can pull through because they have to. Unless they just have to sit waiting. Nobody feels – [overtalk] JESSICA: And then you have nowhere to fucking progress. TROND: Exactly. So then you make it worse – [overtalk] JESSICA: Then you couldn't get anything done. TROND: Exactly! So even a well-working team would actually break in the end because of this. REIN: And we've organized organizations around part maximization. Every way of organizing your business we know of is anti-systemic because they're all about part optimization. Ours is a list of parts and can you imagine going to a director and saying, “Listen, to make this company better, we need to reduce your scope. We need to reduce your budget. We need to reduce your staff. TROND: Yeah. [laughs] That is a hard sell. It is almost impossible. So where I've seen it work—no, I haven't seen that many. But where I've seen that work, you have to have some systemic change coming all the way from the top, basically. Somebody has to come in and say, “Okay, this is going to be painful, but we have to change. The whole thing has to change,” and very few companies want to do that because that's high risk. Why would you do that? So they shook along doing that minor problem-solving here and there and try to fix the things, but they are not getting the systemic change that they probably need. JESSICA: Yeah, and this is one of the reasons why startups wind up eating the lunch of bigger companies; because startups aren't starting from a place that's wrong for what they're now doing. TROND: Exactly. They are free to do it. They have all the freedom that we want the STS team to have. The autonomous sociotechnical systems teams, those are startups. So ideally, you're consisting a lot of startups. REIN: And this gets back to this idea of open systems and the idea of organizationally closed, but structurally open. TROND: Yeah. REIN: It comes from [inaudible] and this idea is that an organization, which is the idea of the organization—IBM as an organization is the idea of IBM, it's not any particular people. IBM stays IBM, but it has to reproduce its structure and they can reproduce its structure in ways that change, build new structure, different structure, but IBM is still IBM. But organizations aren't static and actually, they have to reproduce themselves to adapt and one of the things that I think makes startups better here is that their ability to change their structure as they produce it, they have much more agility. Whereas, a larger organization with much more structure, it's hard to just take the structure and just move it all over here. TROND: Exactly. JESSICA: It's all the other pieces of the system fit with the current system. TROND: Yeah. You have to share every part in order to move. JESSICA: Right. REIN: And also, the identity of a startup is somewhat fluid. Startups can pivot. Can you imagine IBM switching to a car company, or something? TROND: I was thinking exactly the same; you only see pivots in small organizations. Pivots are not normal in large organizations. That will be a no-go. Even if you come and suggested it, “I hear there's a lot of money in being an entrepreneur.” I wouldn't because that would risk everything I have for something that is hypothetical. I wouldn't do that. REIN: Startups, with every part of them, their employees can turn over a 100%, they can get a new CEO, they can get new investors. JESSICA: All at a much faster time scale. TROND: Also, going back to Ackoff, he's saying that we need to go get out of the machine age. Like he said, we have been in the machine age since the Renaissance, we have to get out of that and this is what system thinking is. It's a new age as they call it. Somebody calls it the information age, for example and it's a similar things. But we need to start thinking differently; how to solve problems. The machine has to go, at least for social systems. The machine is still going to be there. We are going to work with machines. We're going to create machines. So machines – [overtalk] JESSICA: We use machines, but our systems are bigger than that. TROND: Yes. JESSICA: Systems are interesting than any machine and when we try build systems as machines, we really limit ourselves. TROND: So I think that is also one of the – I don't know if it's a specific principle for following STS that says that man shouldn't be an extension of the machine, he should be a part of machine. He should be using the machine. He should be like an extension of the machine. JESSICA: Wait. That the man being an extension of machine, the machine should be an extension of man? TROND: Yeah. JESSICA: Right. [inaudible] have a really good tool, you feel that? TROND: Mm hm. REIN: This actually shows up in joint cognitive systems, which shares a lot with sociotechnical systems, as this idea that there are some tools through which you perceive the world that augment you and there are other tools that represent the world. Some tools inside you and you use them to interact with the world, you interact with the world using them to augment your abilities, and there are other tools that you have just a box here that represents the world and you interact with the box and your understanding of the world is constrained by what the box gives you. These are two completely different forms of toolmaking and what Stafford Beer, I think it might say is that there are tools that augment your variety, that augment your ability to manage complexity, and there are tools that reduce complexity, there are tools that attenuate complexity. JESSICA: Jean Yang was talking about this the other day with respect to developer tools. There are tools like Heroku that reduce complexity for you. You just deploy the thing, just deploy it and internally, Heroku is dealing with a lot of complexity in order to give you that abstraction. And then there are other tools, like Honeycomb, that expose complexity and help you deal with the complexity inherent in your system. TROND: Yeah. Just to go back so I get this quote right is that the individual is treated as a complimentary to machine rather than an extension of it. JESSICA: Wait, what is treating this complimentary to machine? TROND: The individual. JESSICA: The individual. TROND: The person, yeah. Because that is what you see in machine shops and those are also what happened in England when they called mining work again, even more industrialized, people are just an extension of the machine. JESSICA: We don't work like that. TROND: Yeah. I feel like that sometimes, I must admit, that I'm part of the machine. That I'm just a cog in the machine and we are not well-equipped to be cogs in machines, I think. Though, we should be. REIN: Joint cognitive systems call this the embodiment relation where the artifact is transparent and it's a part of the operator rather than the application so you can view the world through it but it doesn't restrict you. And then the other side is the hermeneutic relation. So hermeneutics is like biblical hermeneutics is about the interpretation of the Bible. So the hermeneutic relation is where the artifact interprets the world for you and then you view the artifact. So like for example, most of the tools we use to respond to incidents, logs are hermeneutic artifacts. They present their interpretation of the world and we interact with that interpretation. What I think of as making a distinction between old school metrics and observability, is observability is more of an embodiment relationship. Observability lets you ask whatever question you want; you're not restricted to what you specifically remember to log, or to count. TROND: Exactly. And this is now you're getting into the area where I think actually STS – now we have talked about a lot about STS in the industrial context here, but I think it's not less, maybe even more relevant now because especially when we're moving into the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution where the machines have taken over more and more. Like, for example, AI, or machine learning, or whatever. Because then the machine has taken more and more control over our lives. So I think we need this more than even before because the machines before were simple in comparison and they were not designed by somebody in the same sense that for example, AI, or machine learning was actually developed. I wouldn't say AI because it's still an algorithm underneath, but it does have some learning in it and we don't know what the consequences of that is, as I said. So I think it's even more relevant now than it was before. JESSICA: Yeah. TROND: [chuckles] I'm not sure if you're familiar with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or see, that is. JESSICA: Or hear something about it. You want to define it to our listeners? TROND: Somebody called it this hyperphysical systems. JESSICA: Hyperphysical? TROND: Yes, somebody called it hyperphysical systems. I'm not sure if you want to go too much into that, to be honest, but. So the Fourth Industrial Revolution is basically about the continuous automation of manufacturing and industrial practices using smart technology, machine-to-machine communication, internet of things, machine learning improves communication and self-monitoring and all that stuff. We see the hint of it, that something is coming and that is that different type of industry than what we currently are in. I think the Industrial 4.0 was probably coined in Germany somewhere. So there's a definition that something is coming out of that that is going to put the humans even more on the sideline and I think for us working in I, we see some of this already. The general public, maybe don't at the same level. REIN: So this reminds me of this other idea from cognitive systems that there are four stages, historical stages, in the development of work. There's mechanization, which replaces human muscle power with mechanical power and we think of that as starting with the original industrial revolution, but it's actually much older than that with agriculture, for example. Then there's automation, there's a centralization, and then there's computerization. Centralization has happened on a shorter time span and computerization has happened at a very short time span relative to mechanization. So one of the challenges is that we got really good at mechanization because we've been doing it since 500 BC. We're relatively less good at centering cognition in the work. The whole point of mechanization and automation was to take cognition out of the work and realizing you have to put it back in, it's becoming much more conspicuous that people have to think to do their work. TROND: Yeah. JESSICA: Because we're putting more and more of the work into the machine and yet in much software system, many software systems especially like customer facing systems, we need that software to not just be part of the machine, to not do the same thing constantly on a timescale of weeks and months. We need it to evolve, to participate in our cognition as we participate in the larger economy. TROND: Yeah. REIN: And one of the ironies of this automation—this comes from Bainbridge's 1983 paper—is that when you automate a task, you don't get rid of a task. You make a new task, which is managing the automation, and this task is quite different from the task you were doing before and you have no experience with it. You may not even have training with it. So automation doesn't get rid of work; automation mutates work into a new unexpected form. JESSICA: Right. One of the ironies of automation is that now you have created that management at the automation and you think, “Oh, we have more automation. We can pay the workers less.” Wrong. You could pay the workers more. Now collectively, the automation plus the engineers who are managing it are able to do a lot more, but you didn't save money. You added a capability, but you did not save money. REIN: Yeah, and part of that is what you can automate are the things we know how to automate, which are the mechanical tasks and what's left when you automate all of the mechanical tasks are the ones that require thinking. TROND: And that's where we're moving into now, probably that's what the Fourth Industrial Revolution is. We try and automate this stuff that probably shouldn't be automated. Maybe, I don't know. JESSICA: Or it shouldn't be automated in a way that we can't change. TROND: No, exactly. REIN: This is why I'm not buying stock in AI ops companies because I don't think we figured out how to automate decision-making yet. JESSICA: I don't think we want to automate decision-making. We want to augment. TROND: Yeah, probably. So we're back to that same idea that the STS said we should be complimentary to machine, not an extension of it. JESSICA: Yes. That's probably a good place to wrap up? TROND: Yeah. REIN: Yeah. There's actually a paper by the way, Ten Challenges in Making Automation A Team Player. JESSICA: [laughs] Or you can watch my talk on collaborative automation. TROND: Yeah. JESSICA: Do you want to do reflections? REIN: Sure. JESSICA: I have a short reflection. One quote that I wrote down that you said, Trond in the middle of something was “You are capable of taking in stuff that you didn't know you see,” and that speaks to, if you don't know you see it, you can't automate the seeing of it. Humans are really good at the everything else of what is going on. This is our human superpower compared to any software that we can design and that's why I am big on this embodiment relation. Don't love the word, but I do love tools that make it easier for me to make and implement decisions that give me superpowers and then allow me to combine that with my ability to take input from the social system and incorporate that. TROND: I can give it a little bit of an anecdote. My background is not IT. I come from physics—astrophysics, to be specific—and what we were drilled in physics is that you should take the person out of the system. You should close the system as much as possible. Somebody said you have to take a human out of it if you want observe. Physics is you have no environment, you have no people, there's nothing in it so it's completely closed, but we work and here, it's complete opposite. I work in a completely open system where the human part is essential. JESSICA: We are not subject to the second law of thermodynamics. TROND: No, we are not. That is highly restricted for a closed system. We are not. So the idea of open system is something that I think we all need to take on board and we are the best one to deal with those open systems. We do it all the time, every day, just walking with a complex open system. I mean, everything. JESSICA: Eating. TROND: Eating, yeah. REIN: And actually, one of the forms, or the ways that openness was thought of is informational openness. Literally about it. JESSICA: That's [inaudible] take in information. TROND: Yeah. Entropy. JESSICA: Yeah. TROND: Yeah, exactly. And we are capable of controlling that variance, we are the masters of that. Humans, so let's take advantage of that. That's our superpower as humans. REIN: Okay, I can go. So we've been talking a little bit about how the cognitive demands of work are changing and one of the things that's happening is that work is becoming higher tempo. Decisions have to be made more quickly and higher criticality. Computers are really good at making a million mistakes a second. So if you look at something like the Knight Capital incident; a small bug can lose your company half a billion dollars in an instant. So I think what we're seeing is that this complexity, if you combine that with the idea of requisite variety, the complexity of work is exploding and what we call human error is actually a human's inability to cope with complexity. I think if we want to get human error under control, what we have to get better at is managing complexity, not controlling it – [overtalk] JESSICA: And not by we and by we don't mean you, the human get better at this! This system needs to support the humans in managing additional complexity. REIN: Yeah. We need to realize that the nature of work has changed, that it presents these new challenges, and that we need to build systems that support people because work has never been this difficult. JESSICA: Both, social and technical systems. TROND: No, exactly. Just to bring it back to where we started with the coal miners in England. Working there was hard, it was life-threatening; people died in the mines. So you can imagine this must be terrible, but it was a quite closed system, to be honest, compared to what we have. That environment is fairly closed. It isn't predictable at the same size, but we are working in an environment that is completely open. It's turbulent, even. So we need to focus on the human aspect of things. We can't just treat things that machines does work. JESSICA: Thank you for coming to this episode of Greater Than Code. TROND: Yeah, happy to be here. Really fun. It was a fun discussion. REIN: So that about does it for this episode of Greater Than Code. Thank you so much for listening wherever you are. If you want to spend more time with this awesome community, if you donate even $1 to our Patreon, you can come to us on Slack and you can hang out with all of us and it is a lot of fun. Special Guest: Trond Hjorteland.

หนังสือ HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age ของ Harvard Business Review - ไม่ว่าจะเป็นเทคโนโลยีสมัยใหม่ อย่างเช่น ปัญญาประดิษฐ์ หรือว่าระบบการคิด วิเคราะห์ได้ด้วยตัวเอง ก็ล้วนแต่สร้างแรงกระเพื่อมให้กับผู้คนทั้งสิ้น - มันสำคัญกว่ากันไหม ที่เราจะเตรียมตัวรับการเปลี่ยนแปลงแต่โดยดี เมื่อมีสิ่งใหม่เกิดขึ้น สิ่งเก่าย่อมมลายหายไป ไม่มีสิ่งใดคงอยู่ตลอดไปอยู่แล้ว - เราจะเพิกเฉยเทคโนโลยีใหม่ที่เรียกว่า Blockchain ไปไม่ได้เลย แถมระบบ AR ที่จะมาแทนการมองเห็นรูปแบบเดิม ๆ ไป สิ่งเหล่านี้เราเริ่มเห็นบทบาทของมันมากขึ้น - การเรียนรู้สิ่งใหม่ ๆ ย่อมบอกกับเราว่า สิ่งใดก็ตามที่กำลังเข้ามายังอนาคตอันใกล้ มันจะสร้างประโยชน์ก็ได้ หรือจะสร้างโทษก็ได้เช่นกัน มันอยู่ที่มนุษย์นั้นนำไปใช้ในวิถีทางใด - หนังสือเล่มนี้เป็นเพียงข้อมูลคร่าว ๆ ไม่ลงรายละเอียดมากมาย เพียงแต่ให้เราเรียนรู้ไว้ก่อนก็ดีกว่าไม่รู้อะไรเลย อาชีพที่เราทำงานอยู่อาจจะโดนความเสี่ยงไปด้วยเช่นกัน

Gemma Milne talks with M. Nadia Vincent, author of “Leveraging Digital Transformation,” about key digital transformation concepts, such as the difference between reactive and strategic initiatives, how to encourage the critical element of individual transformation, and how to avoid achieving only a partial transformation.About M. Nadia Vincent:M. Nadia Vincent is recognized as one of the top 10 leaders in digital transformation. With over two decades of international work experience, she is an MIT SLOAN Certified Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence Executive Advisor. She has led many major transformation initiatives on the European market as the co-founder of the ultimate training and coaching platform for business executives and transformation leaders. She is the author of several training and coaching programs to help businesses transform, and several books. “Leveraging Digital Transformation,” her most recent book is a reference book in digital transformation leadership.Learn more:https://www.digitaltransformationleaders.com/ Topics of discussionHow the concept of digital transformation has evolved during Nadia’s career (02:54)The three essential ingredients of successful transformation (05:57)The critical importance of the “people” factor (12:50)The biggest challenges aligning leadership for transformation initiatives (17:01)The three main stages of transformation (22:46)How to prioritize transformation goals (29:23)Preparing for the next wave of transformation (31:37) Sponsor linkLearn how Dynamics 365 Business Central can help your small or mid-sized business bring disconnected systems together in a single solution. Watch a demo today:https://aka.ms/AAb0763 Contact usEmail: connectedandready@microsoft.com Follow us on social mediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/msftdynamics365LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/microsoft-dynamicsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJGCg4rB3QSs8y_1FquelBQ

Even before the pandemic, it seemed the world was spinning so fast it's difficult to keep up. Arguably a lot of the technological disruption that was around in 2019 simply got accelerated – remote working, digitisation and AI to name just three.  Our guest today notes in his new book: Two hundred and fifty years ago the Industrial Revolution replaced our arms and legs at work. The fourth Industrial Revolution is now replacing our brains.   He says The Machine Age is engulfing both organisations and people. This shift is challenging the very essence of what it means to be human.   His book The Human Edge, how curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy won Business Book of the year in 2020.   He explores the skills you need to survive and thrive in a world of smartphones and AI. He urges you to stop competing, and instead do things machines can't. To become a more human, human. We welcome the author of “The Human Edge” Greg Orme. https://gregorme.org

This past year we all experienced the rapid acceleration of change in just about every area of our lives. From remote work to the news, our intimate relationship with technology raised more questions than answers.  Today I’m delighted to be joined by Erik Brynjolfsson as he helps us contextualize the changes we are experiencing and to explore in depth how might we shape our destiny, reinventing industries and creating new opportunities that bring everyone shared prosperity.  Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) He’ also the Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. In this episode we discuss: Erik's move from MIT to Stanford A comparison between productivity gains in the First Machine Age compared to the Second Machine Age Why he's a mindful optimist when thinking about the future relationship between humans and machines The skills humans need to focus in on to be successful in The Second Machine Age Why it's not enough to invest and why we must reinvent education His experience teaching during Covid and ideas education can adapt A research study that allows companies to assess what skills machines do well vs humans and how they can best prepare their employees Policies that governments should consider so that everyone can share in the prosperity of the opportunities today's world offers. Resources Learn more about Erik's research here. Read, "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies." Connect with Erik on Twitter here. Learn more about Dr. Quidwai's research study here. 

With guest co-host Katherine Miller, we interview Creative Director Todd Saperstein and Patrick Melnick who is a Dean of Academic Affairs and Department Chair of General Education in higher education on the importance of creativity. Please note that I fully endorse the abilities of Mr. Saperstein that and he is currently "open to work". You may find his linkedin page here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-saperstein-72b08513/ Please subscribe and follow the podcast on facebook to leave comments and request speakers: https://www.facebook.com/BrainHealthWithElliott

This week we are joined by Adam, Don, and Alex from the Red Library. We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism.In our fifth installment we deal with the Heavenly City of Fordism and the Machine Age. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print.MUSIC: Micah No 5- ApologetixThe Lost Horizons Networkhttps://losthorizonsnetwork.com/The Lost Horizons Network PodcastWell... Here we are still, after all.https://well.transistor.fm/Red Library Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/postsFrom78 Podcasthttps://www.patreon.com/from78Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)

While the North and South clash in the Civil War, Fabella goes full steampunk and magic goes head to head with ammunition in this era of industrial revolution. This brief overview occurs between the years  5800 FY (Fabella Year) | 1800 AD (Earth Year) and 5891 FY | 1891 AD. Explore three new stories "Bloodborne," "The Underrock Squad," and "Blood Feud."Archives of Fabella is created, hosted, and edited by Dillon Foley with music by Garret Ferris and Audioblocks.

Authenticity enables us to build trust and lays the foundation for quality relationships in the working world. In the latest Cloudspotting episode, Diane Dowdell, Professor of Marketing and Management at St. Mary's University, joins the Cloudspotting team to discuss authenticity and building trust in the machine age. Show notes: * Podcast on continuous improvement with Matt Stoyka https://cloudspotting.fireside.fm/17 * Recommended read - Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26329.Emotional_Intelligence * Recommended read - The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316526-the-second-machine-age

E estamos de volta… E hoje em um episódio totalmente não recomendável para menores de 18 anos. Em um episódio com um humor de certa forma ácido, caústico e brutal, os Fate Masters Rafael, Fábio e Luís vão revisar um jogo que, tanto pelas suas mecânicas, artes e posicionamento chocou, polemizou e foi um dos mais comentados nos últimos tempos: #iHunt. Venha se sujeitar a ser um fodido e caçar monstros na economia colaborativa, onde todas as pequenas e grandes mazelas do capitalismo apenas reforçam três coisas: te fuder de maneira literal e abstrata mostrar que monstros não são analogias, são criaturas nem todo monstro suga sangue: alguns sugam seu dinheiro Vamos falar sobre as várias mecânicas novas e não tão novas, como os Pacotes de Perícias, Criação dos Monstros, A Vantagem que faz com que uma luta justa seja apenas um eufemismo para bater as botas e muito mais. Vamos também falar sobre como os Monstros em #iHunt não são sempre maus, e às vezes nem o pior mal, embora ocasionalmente alguns deles sejam tão ruins que o Alemão possui uma palavra especial para eles, backpfeifengesicht, ou seja, “alguém que tá pedindo um soco na cara”. E sobre como o nível de Ameaça é definido e sobre como é uma péssima ideia tentar estacar um vampiro pelo peito, graças a um treco chamado Esterno. Venha para San Jenaro, a Sunnydale hipster do Vale do Silício, onde uma caçada de monstros está a um clique e enquanto não está caçando monstros você tem um Emprego vindo diretamente do Vagas Arrombadas. Está desesperado o bastante para arriscar seu pescoço contra a Duqueza Demoníaca de San Jenaro para juntar dinheiro para pagar contas, comprar aquele remédio contra fibromialgia e (se sobrar algum) tomar um sorvete? Se sim, apenas deslize para a direita no #iHunt para aceitar o serviço. Mas lembre-se: o sistema é foda e tem toda uma série de pequenas merdas para te fuder de todos os jeitos em todos os momentos. E acima de tudo: NADA DE FASCISTAS! NADA DE FASCISTAS Se você é um fascista, você não é bem vindo nesse jogo. É contra as regras. Se você está lendo isso e pensando, “Porra, agora todo mundo que não concorda com você é fascista?”, então provavelmente você é um fascista, ou ao menos é incapaz de inferir coisas do contexto e reconhecer um ambiente político perigoso que tornou aqueles que são oprimidos mais raivosos. Não jogo esse jogo. Vá se tratar. Cresça. Aprenda. Vá assistir “Um lindo dia na vizinhança” ou algo similar. Lembrem-se: qualquer dúvidas, críticas, sugestões e opiniões você pode enviar na comunidade do Facebook do Fate (com a hashtag #fatemasters), pelo email fatemasterspodcast@gmail.com, pela página do Fate Masters no Facebook e agora pelo servidor do Movimento Fate Brasil no Discord E as redes sociais dos Fate Masters: Mr Mickey: fabiocosta0305 ou hufflepuffbr em quase todas as redes sociais Velho Lich: rafael.meyer no Facebook ou eavatar no Tumblr Cicerone: lcavalheiro#0520 no Discord e lcavalheiro no Telegram Abaixo, a tabela dos materiais analisados até agora Posição Cenário Mr. Mickey Velho Lich Cicerone Média 1 Uprising - The Dystopian Universe RPG 5 5 5 5   #iHunt 5 5 5 5 3 Masters of Umdaar 5 4,5 5 4.83   Chopstick 5 4,75 4,75 4.83 5 Wearing the Cape 4,8 4,75 4,38 4,78 6 Secrets of Cats 4,7 4,5 4,5 4,73 7 Templo Perdido de Thur-Amon 4,6 4,75 4,75 4,68   Jadepunk 4,8 4,75 4,5 4,68   Nest 4,8 4,5 4,75 4,68 10 Bukatsu 4,75 4,5 4,5 4,58 11 Boa Vizinhança/Good Neighbors 4,7 4,25 4,75 4,56 12 Daring Comics 4,25 4,5 4,75 4,5 13 Mecha vs Kaiju 4,25 4,75 4 4,33 14 Atomic Robo 4 4,5 —- 4,25 15 Destino em Quatro Cores 4 4 3,75 3,92 16 Atomic Robo: Majestic 12 3,5 3,5 —- 3,5 17 Projeto Memento 3,5 3,75 2,75 3,33   Ferramentas de Sistema 4 —- —- 4   Horror Toolkit 4,5 4,5 2 3,6 Link para o programa em MP3 Participantes: Fábio Emilio Costa Luís Cavalheiro Rafael Sant’anna Meyer Duração: 100min Cronologia do Podcast: 00:00:14 - Introdução 00:01:20 - Uma introdução ao #iHunt (e sobre como hoje a coisa vai ladeira abaixo) 00:04:09 - Sobre o cenário de #iHunt e o Aplicativo do #iHunt e sobre como ele é um jogo que não é para qualquer um (nada de Fascistas aqui, catzo!) 00:26:01 - As Perícias (ou Pacotes de Perícias) e Aspectos do #iHunt 00:35:30 - Sobre os Lances, as formas que existem de se matar monstros em #iHunt (e como isso não é uma categorização como no Storyteller) 00:44:21 - Sobre os Monstros em #iHunt, seus poderes, características e fraqueza, e como construir suas próprias coisas ruins 00:53:29 - O Nível de Ameaça e a Vantagem 01:01:21 - Sobre o gerador aleatório de Caçadas de Monstros e sobre como várias caçadas são embebidas na vida cotidiana do #iHunter, e como nem sempre você é o lado bom da coisa 01:10:05 - Sobre Arriscar Aspectos e Essência 01:22:19 - Intervalo Comercial (o X-Card do jogo), Formulário de Consentimento e Selfies como Marcos de Evolução e os Callbacks e o Cenário de San Jenaro 01:28:10 - Sobre Notas e Adoção de Regras 01:53:47 - Considerações Finais Links Relacionados: #iHunt Uber 99 Taxi Microsoft Facebook Google iFood Rolemaster Hinode OSE (Old-School Essentials) Priscila a Rainha do Deserto Matadores de Vampiras Lésbicas Zumbilândia Caça-Fantasmas Elvira Vampirella Walking Dead Resident Evil Santa Clarita Diet Resenha de #iHunt do Mr. Mickey para a Dungeon Geek Gráfico dos Dados Fate no AnyDice Gráfico dos Dados Fate com Vantagem no AnyDice #iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy (English Edition) Machine Age (itch.io) Machine Age no Twitch Aphoteosis Drive/X Machine Age Olivia Hill Rule John Constantine BBSes Dracula Fate - Criaturas Fantásticas Ceifadores Discord da Machine Age - San Genaro Link para a comunidade do Google+ do Fate Masters Comente esse post no site do Fate Masters! 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We conclude series three learning the ‘right’ questions - ones to keep front of mind as the world becomes increasingly intelligent - and hides the intent of its designers. For more information on this episode head to nextbillionseconds.com

Richard David Precht ist Philosoph, Publizist und Honorarprofessor an der Universität Lüneburg, an der ich selbst auch studiert habe. Es war schon lange mein Wunsch, ein Interview mit ihm zu führen, darum freue ich mich sehr, dass es nach dem dritten Anlauf nun geklappt hat. In dem Gespräch haben wir uns über die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft, insbesondere in Anbetracht der digitalen Ära, gesprochen. In dieser Folge erfährst du: • weshalb die Zeit reif ist für neue Utopien. • welche Folgen das 2nd Machine Age auf unser Menschenbild haben kann. • wie das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen unsere Gesellschaft positiv beeinflussen kann. ► Wenn dir der Podcast gefällt, werde Mitglied und mache (einen) Sinneswandel möglich! Wie das geht, erfährst du unter https://marilenaberends.de/unterstuetzen/.

Laurie invites her son Jake to join her in this podcast where they speak about why we choose to come to earth at this time and how we are part of history. They speak briefly of the ages-Stone Age, Ancient History, Modern History that includes the Machine Age, Atomic Age, Digital Revolution, Space Age and Information Age - what the age of Artificial Intelligence may align to how our own ability to gather external information and process and learn. How our cells contain all that we need to 'know'. How Soul Groups and Families may be shifting now to align to assist in current needs of earth, and create and correct damage to support future needs.

Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson discusses his book, The Second Machine Age, which is featured in the Navy Reading Program. Erik's book, Machine, Platform, Crowd is also featured in the Navy Reading Program. Erik is a Professor at MIT and a leader in the field of Digital Economics. Erik was recently published in the prestigious journal, Science. His article, "What can machine learning do? Workforce implications" can be found here

High-tails: Recorded at Ric’s Big Backyard on the 5th September 2017. Recorded by Sam Lowe and mixed by Branko Cosic. WAAX: Recorded at the Brightside Outdoor Stage on the 5th September 2017. Recorded by Eileen Tierny and mixed by Reuben Aptroot. Machine Age: Recorded at The Foundry on the 5th September 2017. Recorded by Caitlin Selder and mixed by Reuben Aptroot.

As the RSA launches its new Future Work Centre, an expert panel considers how we can harness new technologies to create a better world of work. Will technologies like AI and robotics exacerbate economic inequality, deepen geographic divisions and entrench discrimination in the workplace? Or can they be wielded to create a better world of work – one that is more humane, productive and purposeful? And, to the extent that automation does occur, what measures can be taken to mitigate its risks and harness its opportunities? This event was recorded live at The RSA on Tuesday 10th July 2018. Discover more about this event here: https://www.thersa.org/events/2018/07/good-work-in-the-new-machine-age

You’ve intended to read The Second Machine Age, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAffee but just haven’t found the time.  It’s an important book, to be sure, and explains a lot about the future of work.  But it’s fat.  And it’s say on your Amazon wish list for what, three years? This is how we … Continue reading The Second Machine Age: We Read It So You Don’t Have To →

The buzz: “Robots have already taken over Wall Street, as hundreds of financial analysts are being replaced with software or robo-advisors” (theconversation.com). Machines are beginning to do the work of Finance professionals, using AI and ML technologies. Beyond automating transactional processes, they are beginning to augment value-based activities like analytics, forecasting and performance management. As AI and ML use grow, they may eliminate some human roles and create entirely new jobs.The experts speak. Nilly Essaides, The Hackett Group: “We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human revolution, and arguably that's one of the things that makes us human” (Franklin Foer). Anders Liu-Lindberg, Maersk: “Fail fast to succeed sooner” (David Kelley). Vanessa Keating, The Hackett Group: “…the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do” (Rob Siltanen). Join us for Finance Talent in the Machine Age: Human or Bot?

The buzz: “Robots have already taken over Wall Street, as hundreds of financial analysts are being replaced with software or robo-advisors” (theconversation.com). Machines are beginning to do the work of Finance professionals, using AI and ML technologies. Beyond automating transactional processes, they are beginning to augment value-based activities like analytics, forecasting and performance management. As AI and ML use grow, they may eliminate some human roles and create entirely new jobs.The experts speak. Nilly Essaides, The Hackett Group: “We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human revolution, and arguably that's one of the things that makes us human” (Franklin Foer). Anders Liu-Lindberg, Maersk: “Fail fast to succeed sooner” (David Kelley). Vanessa Keating, The Hackett Group: “…the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do” (Rob Siltanen). Join us for Finance Talent in the Machine Age: Human or Bot?

“I like a challenge, I like things which are impossible, that's what brings me out of the bed in the morning” - Priya Prakash Founder of D4SC.io, former Innovation Executive at BBC and Nokia Head of Mobile Phones User Experience. I had the pleasure to speak with Priya who express herself as Designer, Educator, Speaker and do-er with a huge interest in AI and smart cities technology. For her all comes downs to one point, working on solutions such as lifestyle design and experience design concepts to enhance user experience to give back power to citizens. From her past work at Nokia as head of mobile phone user experience for S40/30 platform over BBC with the focus on the iPlayer, she uses design to enable users to create a better experience. Changify.org as well which she founded is a perfect example, focusing more on citizenship. A neighbourhood platform to give the citizen the power to report problems on streets, in parks or in general public direct to government. And that isn’t a surprise, that she choose her book title. It called -------------------------------------- CHAPTERS OF MY LIFE BOOK TITLE Being Human in a Machine Age CHAPTERS 1 Now 2 Human 2.0 3 Enhancing customer experience 4 Life transitions 5 Creating Technology or social systems for good 6 Cheat Sheet NEXT CHAPTER Creating standards for citizen data ---------------------------------------- You can find Priya at D4SC.io or on social media @priyascape Leave some comments, what did you like most from this podcast, which chapters of other entrepreneurs, athletes or idealists do you wanna hear near future? Leave a comment or drop me a message on social media. You can find me on Instagram and twitter @bydanielludwig ABOUT CHAPTERS OF MY LIFE PODCAST I want you to imagine your past life. Right, where should I start? Imagine you need to write your life story in form of a book already. It’s a challenge itself and frankly, not everyone has thought of this, as we always think when we get older we should write about our life. But in fact, we have so many experience ready to share with others, achievements, failures to learn from, positive and negative life transitions which in the end lead to the person we are today. This "Chapters Of My Life Podcast" is an inspiring collection of life transitions packed into a podcast audiobook format capturing the willpower and belief of people during important life-changing decisions. We interview innovators, athletes, entrepreneurs and idealists give an insight into their past life from a young age till today and (future untold plans) covering topics around sports, entrepreneurship, mindfulness, travel, nutrition, spirituality, yoga & meditation and more - everything which leads to the person they are today. Interviews by a Daniel Ludwig @bydanielludwig

Brainy Thing:  24:21            Behind the Redwood Curtain 35:41   What We’re Learning from our Knitting Margaret’s further exploration of Fair Isle veers into Crochet Fair Isle under the instruction of Karen Whooley.  (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/karen-whooley)  Other Fair Isle references in the report.     http://kelbournewoolens.com/blog/2017/5/stranded-colorwork-vs-fair-isle-knitting Fai https://arnecarlos.com/why-there-is-no-dominant-color-in-norwegian-knitting-by-arne-carlos/ https://course.craftsy.com/play/3984?startLectureId=7160&t=0   Catherine finds an “Interim Project” until she’s ready for a full commitment.   Brainy Thing: Can training to be ambidextrous improve your brain?  Maybe but one expert says maybe not.   https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/3194/are-there-cognitive-benefits-to-two-hand-typing-versus-one-finger   https://www.dovepress.com/differential-brain-response-to-one--or-two-hand-handling-action-an-fmr-peer-reviewed-article-NAN Differential    http://www.nwitimes.com/niche/shore/health/using-your-other-hand-benefits-your-brain/article_6da931ea-b64f-5cc2-9583-e78f179c2425.html Using Your https://www.wikihow.com/Become-Left-Handed-when-you-are-Right-Handed    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-training-to-become-ambidextrous-improve-brain-function/   Behind the Redwood Curtain   Morris Graves Museum  How  an artist escapes “the noise of machine age America.”   Morris Graves   http://humboldtarts.org/visit        http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/mark-tobey.htm http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/mark-tobey.htm Links:  Facebook:  Also, join our Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/Teachingyourbraintoknitpodcast/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Ravelry Group  http://www.ravelry.com/groups/teaching-your-brain-to-knit website https://teachingyourbraintoknit.com/ for show notes, photos of our knitting and crochet projects, Behind the Redwood Curtain places and things and anything else we decide to post. Instagram:   Margaret Kelso for Margaret and MagicWombat1 for Catherine   Today on Teaching Your Brain to Knit we ask “Can learning to be ambidextrous help improve your brain?” also Margaret further explores Fair Isle;  Catherine finds  an “interim” project and we learn how one artist found an escape from the “the noise of machine age America."  

Philadelphia native Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is recognized as one of the founding figures of American modernism. Initially trained in impressionist landscape painting, he experimented early in his career with compositions inspired by European modernism before developing a linear, hard-edge style now known as Precisionism. Sheeler is best known for his powerful and compelling images of the Machine Age—stark paintings and photographs of skyscrapers, factories, and power plants—that he created while working in the 1920s and 1930s. Less known, and even lesser studied, is that he worked from 1926 to 1931 as a fashion and portrait photographer for Condé Nast. The body of work he produced during this time, mainly for Vanity Fair and Vogue, has been almost universally dismissed by scholars of American modernism as purely commercial, the results of a painter's "day job," and nothing more. Charles Sheeler contends that Sheeler's fashion and portrait photography was instrumental to the artist's developing modernist aesthetic. Over the course of his time at Condé Nast, Sheeler's fashion photography increasingly incorporated the structural design of abstraction: rhythmic patterning, dramatic contrast, and abstract compositions. The subjects of Sheeler's fashion and portrait photography appear pared down to their barest essentials, as sculptural objects composed of line, form, and light. The objective, distant, and rigorously formal style that Sheeler developed at Condé Nast would eventually be applied to all of his artistic forays: architectural, industrial, and vernacular. Kirsten Jensen is the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum. Shawn Waldron is the former Senior Director of Archives and Records at Conde Nast. Description courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Press.

Artificial intelligence is coming - should be worried about our jobs? Well, it depends. Our guest Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur spent the last two years researching the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on society and the job market. In this interview on AI in Industry, we explore the near future of AI's impact on the world of work, and I ask Kevin some important questions, including: What skills are least "automate-able" in the next decade? What middle class professions have the greatest risk of automation, and what should those professionals be doing now to hedge against job loss? What should business leaders be doing now to prepare for "phasing out" work while still taking care of their employees? For more interviews with AI executives and researchers (and more insight on applying AI in your organization) - visit us online at: www.TechEmergence.com

Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes first woman to win Nobel Peace prize.Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner was born into aristocracy and a military family as the Countess Kinsky on June 9, 1843 in Prague. In adulthood, the Baroness moved to Paris to work as Alfred Nobel’s secretary, then to Vienna to marry Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner. To escape her disapproving in-laws, the couple moved again and lived a meagre life, teaching language and music, and writing. Bertha, who became a successful writer, gravitated toward the topic of peace. When she learned of the Arbitration and Peace Association in London, she wrote her second serious book The Machine Age, criticizing the world and the destructive nature of nationalism and armaments. In 1889, she wrote the compelling novel, Lay Down Your Arms, describing the effects of war. This made her a leader of the peace movement, about which she corresponded frequently with her former employer, Nobel. Only when Nobel died did she discover through his will that he had established a peace prize – a prize she herself would win on April 18, 1906, the first woman to do so. Throughout her life, von Suttner (with her husband until he died in 1902) spoke all over the world, organized and attended conferences and wrote – all toward the goal of promoting peace. Her death on June 21, 1914 spared her from witnessing the start of World War I just two months later. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In dieser Episode stelle ich Dir einige Bücher vor, die ich im letzten Jahr gelesen habe. Dafür habe ich aus jedem Buch ein Zitat ausgewählt, das ich besonders wichtig oder interessant finde.  Es heißt „In jedem Buch steckt ein Goldkörnchen. Man muss es nur finden.“ Ich stelle Dir also heute die Goldkörnchen vor, die ich im letzten Jahr in Büchern gefunden habe. Den Anfang machen acht deutschsprachige Bücher, bzw. Bücher, die auch in deutscher Übersetzung verfügbar sind.   In Teil 2 stelle ich Dir acht englischsprachige Bücher vor. Diese Episode findest Du hier   Die Bücher Solopreneur. Allein schneller ans Ziel von Brigitte und Ehrenfried Conta Gromberg Link zum Buch   Coach, your Marketing. Authentisches Marketing für Coaches von Tanja Klein, Ruth Urban Link zum Buch   Schnelles Denken, Langsames Denken von Daniel Kahneman Link zum Buch auf deutsch | Link zum Buch im englischen Original   The second Machine Age von Erik Brynjolfsson und Andrew Mc Afee Link zum Buch auf deutsch | Link zum Buch im englischen Original   Das Silicon Valley Mindset von Mario Herger Link zum Buch Meine Buchrezension   Networking für Networking-Hasser von Devora Zack Link zum Buch auf deutsch | Link zum Buch im englischen Original   Xing. Erfolgreich netzwerken im Beruf von Frank Bärmann Link zum Buch   55 Artikelideen für Ihr Blog von Doris Doppler Link zum Buch   Bonus Täglich ein schneller Impuls für Deinen Erfolg - Das bekommst Du mit dem Strategieexperten-Erfolgstipp

Philip Aldrick, Economics Editor, and Alex Ralph, Market Reporter, discuss how the Fed's interest rate decision could unsettle already overvalued markets and whether drone racing will be the catalyst for a new machine age. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first part of this week's show, host Doug Goldstein meets Eric Brynjolfsson, professor of management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of The Machine Age.  Can today’s era of technological advancement be compared with the Industrial Revolution, and how do changes in technology affect the human life and our interactions with each other?

Pittsburgh Track Authority's west coast LIVE debut is in an intimate East Bay late-night venue. We're all in for a treat. Preslav Lefterov, Thomas Cox and Adam Ratana have all been at it for a decade plus respectively, but together PTA has only been at it since 2011, culminating with their critically acclaimed debut full-length album, Enter the Machine Age.

For the next few weeks, we're bringing you edited versions of the best conversations from our annual 10 Big Ideas Conference. This week,you'll hear first from Andrew McAfee, co-author of The Second Machine Age, and the associate director for the Center for Digital Businessat MIT. He distills the hidden impacts our fast-paced technological innovation, explaining why we're simultaneously in the best of times, and the worst of times. Later, listen to a discussion about how the seemingly-innocuous credit hour has poisoned higher education, and what we can do about it, featuring Amy Laitinen, the Deputy Director of Education Policy at New America, Cathrael Kazin, the Chief Academic Officer of the College of America, Hal Plotkin, the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education in the U.S. Department of Education, and Libby Nelson, an Education Reporter at Vox.

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee are both MIT professors. They also wrote a book together called The Second Machine Age and it’s amazing. Over the last few decades, technology has been increasing at an exponential rate. In the 1960s, the creators of Star Trek imagined that centuries in the future there would be a handheld device that would be a communicator, scanner and computer called a tricorder. Turns out it’s called an iPhone and it took way less time to develop. Driverless cars exist and are getting better all the time; 3D printing is already in commercial use; robots are doing more and more jobs than ever before. Technologies that seemed like part of a distant future are increasingly a part of our everyday reality. In this book, the two professors go way beyond examining what these technologies are and look at how they are affecting our society already and what we can expect in the next few decades. In this interview, we find out how AI, robotics and nanotechnology will affect business, the distribution of wealth and the search for a job. (We also talk about how likely a Terminator-type scenario is.) Professors Brynjolfsson and McAfee can’t tell you how to survive a Zombie Apocalypse; they can give you good advice on how to cope with a much more realistic challenge: the rise of the robots.Their book is available pretty much everywhere because that’s how things are in the Second Machine Age. You can follow them on twitter at @erikbryn and @amcafee. Be sure to rate and comment in iTunes.

In this extra-long podcast, we review the important new book from MIT’s Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, THE SECOND MACHINE AGE: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. The first half is a detailed, Cliffs-Notes version of the book’s arguments for those that have not read it; others may want to skip to […]

Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT and co-author of The Second Machine Age talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book, co-authored with Andrew McAfee. He argues we are entering a new age of economic activity dominated by smart machines and computers. Neither dystopian or utopian, Brynjolfsson sees this new age as one of possibility and challenge. He is optimistic that with the right choices and policy responses, the future will have much to celebrate.

Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT and co-author of The Second Machine Age talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book, co-authored with Andrew McAfee. He argues we are entering a new age of economic activity dominated by smart machines and computers. Neither dystopian or utopian, Brynjolfsson sees this new age as one of possibility and challenge. He is optimistic that with the right choices and policy responses, the future will have much to celebrate.

This is a podcast of the second reading from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. The reader is Heather McDougal, who entertained us with an extract from her novel, Songs for a Machine Age. SF in  SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.

David Hill from Machine Age productions joins us to talk about big robot fighting adventure with Apotheosis Drive X!Featuring - ADX: what is it, why is it, and how does it work- The FATE RPG system- Serving a vastly underserved Big Robot Fighting community- Kickstarter: the difference between a great game, and a lot more of a great productLinksGood resource for ADX informationMachine Age Productions FATE rpg system and its branches Subscribe on iTunes!  Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com    

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations. Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to; http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations. Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to; http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.Try Audible for the best books on the Civil War, get 1 free book for just trying Audible, Go to;http://audiblepodcast.com/rnn  for your trial. Keep the book if you want to cancel.

Transcript -- The future of nano-technology; this mechanical revolution will emulate biological systems.

The future of nano-technology; this mechanical revolution will emulate biological systems.

Transcript -- The future of nano-technology; this mechanical revolution will emulate biological systems.

The future of nano-technology; this mechanical revolution will emulate biological systems.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.

Civil War Chronicles is an exploration into the events were to set the stage for the bloodiest and saddest war in American history. In a conflict that combined elements of the Napoleonic Age with features of the new Machine Age, at least 600,000 Americans. Each show explores the author of History,the Generals,the soldiers,and more.Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, children’s authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.