Filmmaker Astra Taylor believes our digital life is undemocratic -- that we're concentrating power into the hands of giant tech companies, who make money off our posts and tweet. She tells Anne Strainchamps why she believes there should be greater regulation of the Internet.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"Shock Doctrine" journalist Naomi Klein's Dangerous Idea? Democratize the world's energy supply.
Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier talks about his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"
We meet Pete Daly, an engineer with recurrent melanoma who talks about living with cancer.
Mike Tidwell is a freelance journalist who thinks he’s found the biggest environmental catastrophe in America. In this pre-Katrina interview, Tidwell talks about the time he spent with shrimpers in the bayou country and what they taught him about the devastating price we’re paying for the way we control floods on the Mississippi River.
Len Fisher talks with Anne Strainchamps about "swarm intelligence" and how it differs from "group think."
Richard Marcinko is CEO of a private security firm which trains mercenaries and he candidly tells Steve Paulson about waging war and interrogating prisoners from a mercenary's point of view.
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