technology
June 2024
Playtime vs Screentime
Dr Michael Rich, director of the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital, and UMASS Professor David Toomey bat around the most recent research, including the upside of boredom for kids.
February 2022
The Curse of the Smartphone
It is hard to imagine life without the ubiquitous smartphone. What negative effects is this dependency having on our behavior? What can we do about it? Paul Greenberg has some answers.
May 2020
Living Without Working
Daniel Susskind, author and economist, teaches at Balliol College, Oxford, and his new book is A Work Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond.
November 2017
Who Can You Trust?
Rachel Botsman writes about and researches how technology is transforming trust and what this means for life, work, and business.
February 2016
Reclaiming Conversation
Most conversations today involve distracted people looking at their phones and not their partners. This, according to Sherry Turkle, is leading to a “crisis of empathy” at work, at home and in our public life.
November 2013
The App Generation
Famed Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner and Katie Davis of the University of Washington’s Information School discuss how digital media is changing the manner in which young people learn and relate to the world.
January 2011
Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership
MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde defends the concept of the cultural commons. How has our cultural heritage, the store of ideas and art we have inherited from the past, come to be seen as intellectual property?
November 2012
Using the Internet to Create a Just, Sustainable Economy
The New Economic Institute hosts Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons and Change Congress, discussing the part the Internet could play in fostering a just and sustainable economy.
October 2011
America the Vulnerable: Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare
Former National Security Agency insider Joel Brenner explores the chilling future of espionage and warfare in the digital matrix that bounds our world.
September 2011
Bullies and Cyberbullies
Psychologist Elizabeth Englander, neuroscientist Tracy Vaillancourt, and storyteller Odds Bodkin look at bullying from the perspectives of victims, victimizers, and communities.