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Technology is redefining who we trust, and this shift in trust has fundamental consequences.
How will emerging technologies continue to impact a new generation of Americans?
The architecture of how we live our lives is badly in need of renovation and repair.
Artificial intelligence is clearly going to change our lives in multiple ways. But it’s not yet obvious exactly how, and what the impacts will be. We can predict that certain jobs held by humans will probably be taken over by computers, but what about our thoughts? Will we still think and create in the same ways? Author and former Aspen Institute president Walter Isaacson...
Conversation is facing a crisis in our culture. How do we navigate this "robotic moment?"
Is America turning its back on the humanities?
Learn about early 20th century Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, and why he matters today.
This episode features “big ideas” from festivals as far back as 2007.
The human capacity for empathy allows us to communicate, collaborate and understand each other. But we all know empathy isn’t always easy, and we can feel worn down by the effort. MIT professor and researcher Sherry Turkle studies empathy, and particularly how technology can undermine our natural human tendencies to connect. After several books and many decades of work com...
Today’s young people have not seen a lot of good examples of adults working together to solve problems. Generation Z is coming of age amidst daunting issues like climate change, gun violence, and a teen mental health crisis, and trusted adults seem few and far between to many of them. The rift goes both ways — Baby Boomers and Generation X also report distrust and dislike...
With major increases in life expectancy, should we be thinking about redesigning our life course?