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Timothy H. Edgar on Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:00:33 +0000

What does talk of cyber war mean for our liberties? The United States has a new military command for cyberspace, with the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) as its commander. At the same time, the Secretary of State has announced that the “freedom to connect” is an aspect of fundamental human rights and [...]

Timothy H. Edgar on Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom [AUDIO]

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:31:47 +0000

Justin Reich on Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madness

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:10:23 +0000

For decades, policymakers and futurists have heralded digital tools as essential to the the future of learning. Has the moment of disruptive transformational revolution finally arrived? If we are at a watershed moment, what futures are available to us? Justin Reich — visiting lecturer at MIT, Berkman fellow, and educational researcher — discusses the intersection [...]

Justin Reich on Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madness [AUDIO]

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:05:24 +0000

Daniel J. Caron & Eric Mechoulan on How to Archive for the Future

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:00:56 +0000

In order to secure our future, we need to know how to organize our past. If we want to preserve accessibility to valuable information about legal, political, social, and cultural discourses in an era of information abundance, it becomes vital to design carefully how we distinguish between noise and significant pieces of information. In this [...]

Daniel J. Caron & Eric Mechoulan on How to Archive for the Future [AUDIO]

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:26:31 +0000

Work Here: Heather Whitney on Having a Voice in the Modern Workplace and Changing the World

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:55:29 +0000

Companies like Google and Twitter and Facebook are thought to provide some of the most envied work environments on the planet. But should employees be worried that their trust in their employer, so purposefully cultivated, has been built on promises that are more illusion than enforceable promise? Some in the labor movement think these employers [...]

Work Here: Heather Whitney on Having a Voice in the Modern Workplace and Changing the World [AUDIO]

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:55:25 +0000

Derek Khanna on Disruptive Innovation in Washington, DC

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:09:56 +0000

SOPA, CISPA, CFAA, DMCA, mobile phone unlocking — how can a complacent Congress address real and systemic problems related to technology and antiquated legislation? In this talk, Derek Khanna — Yale Law Fellow with the Information Society Project and former House Republican Study Committee staffer (where he authored the widely read House Republican Study Committee [...]

Derek Khanna on Disruptive Innovation in Washington, DC [AUDIO]

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:00:59 +0000

Bruce Schneier & Jonathan Zittrain on IT, Security, and Power

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:05:35 +0000

How does the Internet affect power? How does power affect the Internet? Factors such as ubiquitous surveillance, the rise of cyberwar, ill-conceived laws and regulations on behalf of either government or corporate power, and a feudal model of security collide to create a circumstance in which those in power are using information technology to increase [...]

Bruce Schneier & Jonathan Zittrain on IT, Security, and Power [AUDIO]

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:30:35 +0000

Anil Dash on The Web We Lost

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:53:55 +0000

In the past decade, we’ve seen an unprecedented rise of powerful social networks, connecting millions or even billions of people who can now communicate almost instantaneously. But many of the promises that were made by the creators of the earliest social networking technologies have gone unfulfilled. In this talk, Anil Dash—entrepreneur, technologist, and writer—takes a [...]

Anil Dash on The Web We Lost [AUDIO]

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:16:49 +0000