TODAY’S GUEST

Dr. Lior Zalmanson taught the "Information Technology for Business and Society" course at NYU Stern, was a Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum Media Lab, and spent his career studying the interrelations between society and the internet. His studies won awards and grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Google, the Marketing Science Institute and were covered in The Times, Independent, PBS, Fast Company, just to name a few.

Today he is a senior lecturer at the Technology and Information Management Program, Coller School of Management in Tel Aviv University. In his parallel life, Lior is also the founder of the Print Screen Festival, Israel's first and largest digital culture festival,
and is an award-winning digital artist, playwright, and screenwriter. His recent film (about drone operators) received its debut at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. 

 

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode we discuss:

[3:24] How the power of informal & civic engagement, helped Lior discover non-traditional leadership styles, and empowered him to pursue his passion.

[12:37] How Lior came to find clarity of passion and purpose.

[16:46] How Lior thinks about the totality of what he is doing today.

[19:43] Why study the internet?

[21:36] How the internet is changing us.

[50:07] How algorithms are taking over middle-management, and increasingly managing humans.

[1:09:32] Lior's connection with Reform Judaism & spirituality

[1:20:55] Lior's art, focusing on two specific works of art.

 

EPISODE LINKS

• Dr. Lior Zalmanson Links
  • 🌍 LiorZalmanson.Art
  • 🌍 Lior's Google Scholar Profile
  • 📺  Lior's "When Algorithms are Your Boss" Talk
  • 🌍 Artificial Artificial Fears
  • 🌍 Print Screen Festival

• Other Things Discussed
  
  • 📺 Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech at Stanford University 2005
  • 🌍 Surveillance Capitalism (Wikipedia)
  • 📘  "Algorithm Appreciation" Study
  • 📘  The Experience Economy  by B. Joseph Pine II, James H. Gilmore
  • 🎬 The Social Dilemma Movie Trailer
  • 📕 The Buddha in the Robot, by Masahiro Mori

 

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