The Human and The Machine

Join guest presenter Wendell Steavenson unpick the upsurge in Zoom use with guests including Rimma Perelmuter of Datum Future; Jet G.Sanders of LSE; Liz Moseley of Tortoise Media and featuring Charles Arthur’s Tech Trends.

This era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is transforming everything; the risk is that the human becomes outsourced, secondary. This series of podcasts explores this big question with key thinkers of the day – subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

Join us for the final episode of series 2, as Astronomer Royal Lord Rees talks to Julia Hobsbawm and Charles Arthur about The Future. Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here to subscribe on Acast Follow updates on Twitter @technoshabbat #humanandmachine #HATM

Race & the Internet Julia Hobsbawm and Charles Arthur speak to Charlton McIlwain, Author of ‘Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter’; writer and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and writer Rohan Candappa. Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here to subscribe on Acast Follow updates on Twitter @technoshabbat #humanandmachine #HATM

Autopilots Julia Hobsbawm and Charles Arthur speak to Alex Hern, UK technology editor for the Guardian and Dr. Jack Stilgoe, Senior Lecturer in Social Studies of Science, University College London Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here to subscribe on Acast Follow updates on Twitter @technoshabbat #humanandmachine #HATM

Digital Media Special: New Models + Old Journalism Julia Hobsbawm speaks to Emily Bell, Professor of Professional Practice & Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism and Danny Shea, Chief Brand Officer, Thrive Global. Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here to subscribe on Acast Follow updates on Twitter @technoshabbat #humanandmachine #HATM

Silicon Valley Special Julia Hobsbawm heads to Silicon Valley to attend Social Science Foo at Facebook. This episode includes interviews with Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media; Ziyad Marar, President of Global Publishing at SAGE and author; Meredith Broussard, Data Journalism Professor at New York University; Elin Caliskan and writer, broadcaster and tech philosopher Tom Chatfield. We also get to hear journalist and writer Dolly Alderton’s Techno Heaven & Hell. Click here to subscribe on...

Tech Values Julia Hobsbawm kicks off Series 2 of The Human and Machine with a look at how we value tech itself in society. Includes interviews with Hannah Kuchler, Technology Correspondent, Financial Times; Aron Ain, CEO of Kronos Incorporated and author of Work Inspired; plus we throw a Spotlight on a social good company: QDOOZ with its Strategy chief Tony Manwaring. Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here to subscribe on Acast Follow updates on Twitter @technoshabbat...

Culture, community and tech – where the lines blur Julia Hobsbawm and Georgina Godwin are joined this week by Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Founder and Executive Chair of Doteveryone; Professor Jeremy Bailenson, Founding Director, Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab and Professor Ted Gibson, a Professor of Cognitive Science at MIT. They talk about internet safety, colour in culture, women in technology and virtual reality. For afters, we’ve got Dolly Alderton, journalist, writer...

Health and technology in the modern world Julia Hobsbawm is joined this week by Jessica Morris, Founder & Chair of Our Brain Bank and Dr Natalie Banner, the ‘Understanding Patient Data’ Lead at the Wellcome Trust. They talk technology, healthcare data and the importance of hope in medicine. For afters, we’ve got Alice Thwaite, of the Echo Chamber Club, Carl Miller of Demos and Geoff Mulgan of Nesta on techno-heaven, techno-hell and techno-shabbat. Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click...

MIT Special: How essential is the internet? What’s going to change? Georgina Godwin and Julia Hobsbawm speak with; Professor Sandy Pentland – Director of Connection Science & Human Dynamics Labs, MIT; Professor César Hidalgo – Director, Collective Learning Group at MIT Media Lab; William Newton – President & EMEA Managing Director, WiredScore; and Tom Redmayne – Director of Business Development UK, WiredScore. Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here to subscribe on Acast Key...

The robots are coming… Are humans going to be usurped by machines in the world of work? Georgina Godwin and Julia Hobsbawm speak with; Herminia Ibarra – the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School; Dana Denis-Smith – Founder and CEO of Obelisk Support and the Founder of First 100 Years; John Grant – a Marketing & Innovation […]