Technology
May 2026 • Technology
THE END OF LONELINESS? AI AND THE FUTURE OF CONNECTION
Can an AI companion provide the connection people crave?
April 2026 • Technology
Can Democracy Survive the Data Economy? Privacy, Power, and the Right to Dissent
The data‑broker economy has quietly become a powerful surveillance engine for federal agencies and law enforcement. This conversation asks a pressing question: when dissent is recorded, classified, and stored, can democracy survive?
December 2025 • Podcast
WHAT ARE WE UP TO IN SPACE?
Two astrophysicists provide a reality check on our current role in space, to consider what is really motivating our actions, driving our expensive excursions to Mars, and shaping our international satellite placement industry. Have we really considered our role, responsibility, and stewardship in space alongside the potential profits to be made?
September 2025 • Technology
A.I. and the Death of Critical Thinking
Until we know more about the cognitive effects of technology like ChatGPT, should we be inserting it into the classroom? And if, as recent studies indicate, it homogenizes thinking and creativity, are we content to let our kids’ education go into experimental free fall?
March 2025 • Technology
The Moving Image: A Force to Be Reckoned With
Americans now get their news and information from screens and video platforms rather than the “printed” word. The growing impact of this “force” in our society has no precedent in history.
December 2024 • Technology
Feeding The Machine
Cambridge Forum continues its investigation into the impact of AI: Servant or Master? with FEEDING THE MACHINE. The proliferation of A.I. offers seemingly limitless implications for the future, however what is less known about, is the hidden human cost of the labor that feeds this machine—and it is horrific.
November 2024 • Podcast
THE ANXIOUS i-GENERATION
“We are over-protecting children in the real world while under-protecting them online” says Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, who maintains that the environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. Haidt traces the current mental health crisis to the mid-2010s when smartphones and social […]
November 2024 • Technology
UNMASKING AI:
Scientist and artist, Dr. Joy Buolamwini discusses her book UNMASKING AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines. In it, she uncovers what she calls “the coded gaze”, evidence of encoded racial and gender bias, discrimination and exclusion in tech products.