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How good of a dish are you going to get when you use bad ingredients? Are you going to blame the recipe? Some people would, and by doing so, they would keep baking bad cooks and blaming the recipe for it. Algorithms work the same. You give AI bad data, you get bad results.

The metaphor works well until you realize that, when you end up with a lousy meal, you can throw it in the trash and order from a restaurant and get a new meal. But when the algorithm is fed bad data, and that is supposed to save peoples' lives—you got the picture, right?

So we need good data, good algorithms, and good technology; but that is not enough. Despite what many people like to think, there are no magic tech pills—humans envision, create, and use technology, and we need the right culture to obtains the right results. Our technology is only as good as we are, and culture drives everything we do as humans. If you feed machine learning with bias, you get an even more significant bias. If you inject bias into the medical culture, you kill people: both patients AND doctors.

The American healthcare system should be the best in the world, but today it is not; doctors are burning out and making mistakes. Technology is not accepted and utilized as it should be. Racism shouldn’t be part of the healthcare system, but it is.

Does it suck? Yes.

Is there hope? Absolutely.

Can technology help? You bet. 

How? Have a listen.

About The Book

Doctors Are Taught How To Cure People. But They Don’t Always Know How To Care For Them.

Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional healthcare system. But that’s only part of the problem.

In this important and timely book, Dr. Robert Pearl shines a light on the unseen and often toxic culture of medicine. Today’s physicians have a surprising disdain for technology, an unhealthy obsession with status, and an increasingly complicated relationship with their patients. All of this can be traced back to their earliest experiences in medical school, where doctors inherit a set of norms, beliefs, and expectations that shape almost every decision they make, with profound consequences for the rest of us.

Uncaring draws an original and revealing portrait of what it’s actually like to be a doctor. It illuminates the complex and intimidating world of medicine for readers, and in the end offers a clear plan to save American healthcare.

About the author
Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. Named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the author of the Washington Post bestseller Mistreated, host of the Fixing Healthcare podcast, and a regular contributor to Forbes.

*Profits from Uncaring will be donated to Doctors Without Borders

Guests
Dr. Robert M. Pearl, Former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group | Forbes Healthcare Contributor | Stanford Faculty | Bestselling Author (@RobertPearlMD on Twitter)

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Resources
More about Dr. Robert M. Pearl and his book, Uncaring: https://robertpearlmd.com/uncaring/

Book: Mistreated: Why We think We’re Getting Good Healthcare—And Why We’re Usually Wrong: https://www.amazon.com/Mistreated-Getting-Health-Care-Usually/dp/1610397657

Note: All proceeds from the book go to Doctors Without Borders

Fixing Healthcare Podcast: https://www.fixinghealthcarepodcast.com/

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Let's face it, hacking got a bad reputation—it has been in the making for over 30 years, it got worse, and we have to change that. Humans want to have it simple; they want to define things as bad or good, white or black, heaven or hell—but there is so much more in between.

ITSPmagazine has always taken a firm stand on the differentiation between hackers and cybercriminals. It sides with the curious minds that invent, improve, question, discover, reject the status quo, and embrace equality, freedom, and diversity—the hacker community.

Critical thinking makes us human and got us to where we are today; of course, not everything is positive, but it is what we make of it. Acquiring knowledge and learning from past mistakes is what "should" make us better humans too.

In this podcast, we learn the story of one of the first hackers' groups created back in the 80s—a time when just to access and use the Internet you had to have a hacker mentality, and War Games was inspiring generations to come.

The CDC (Cult of the Dead Cow) is full of oddball characters—activists, artists, even future politicians. It is an elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom, and even democracy itself.

It is an extraordinary story and what makes it even more remarkable is that we hear it from the author himself, Joseph Menn: an investigative reporter for Reuters and the longest-serving and most respected mainstream journalist on cybersecurity.

Have a seat, open your mind, and let it be free.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom, and even democracy itself.

Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism, released the top tool for testing password security, and created what was for years the best technique for controlling computers from afar, forcing giant companies to work harder to protect customers. They contributed to the development of Tor, the most important privacy tool on the net, and helped build cyberweapons that advanced US security without injuring anyone.

With its origins in the earliest days of the Internet, the cDc is full of oddball characters -- activists, artists, even future politicians. Many of these hackers have become top executives and advisors walking the corridors of power in Washington and Silicon Valley. The most famous is former Texas Congressman and current presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, whose time in the cDc set him up to found a tech business, launch an alternative publication in El Paso, and make long-shot bets on unconventional campaigns.

Today, the group and its followers are battling electoral misinformation, making personal data safer, and battling to keep technology a force for good instead of for surveillance and oppression. Cult of the Dead Cow shows how governments, corporations, and criminals came to hold immense power over individuals and how we can fight back against them.”

Guest
Joseph Menn, Author, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World | Projects Reporter, Reuters (@josephmenn on Twitter)

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Book: Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World — https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/joseph-menn/cult-of-the-dead-cow/9781541762381/

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Who hasn't heard grandparents say something like: back in my days, life was simpler, better, safer. That's probably—kinda—true. But as time goes by, looking back, even one generation has to take into consideration the technology variable.

It is all another story—this one, to be exact.

In this Audio Signals episode, we talk with Sonia Livingstone, a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sonia has published 20 books on media audiences, especially children and young people's risks and opportunities, media literacy, and rights in the digital environment, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age.

Nowadays, we point fingers at parents too quickly for not really knowing how to introduce and manage their children's technology consumption. Why are technology education classes missing in school, and how are parents supposed to figure this all out on their own? This question can also be summarized by "Who is educating the educators?"

For generations, our society could count on learning from the past how to educate children about specific topics laid in the past experience that parents and grandparents had. Still, once you place the technology variable in the equation, the formula doesn't hold anymore. There are unknowns, exponential changes, and a future that all of a sudden is already here. What was once local has become global. And, there is a generational gap, and we have to figure out how to fill it ASAP.

In "Parenting for a Digital Future, How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives"

Sonia Livingstone discusses this and much more, and we talk about it right here in this podcast.

How parents' hopes and fears about technology shape their children's lives? Taking a comparative, critical, and contextualized approach, her research examines how mediation's changing conditions are reshaping everyday practices and possibilities for action.

ABOUT THE BOOK
In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation.

In Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross draw on extensive and diverse qualitative and quantitative research with a range of parents in the UK to reveal how digital technologies characterize parenting in late modernity, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent or support.

They chart how parents often enact authority and values through digital technologies since "screen time," games, and social media have become both ways of being together and of setting boundaries. Parenting for a Digital Future moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change.

Enjoy, share, and think about it.

Guest
Sonia Livingstone,  Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics (@Livingstone_S on Twitter)

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Resources

• Children’s Rights in the Digital Age
• Digital Futures Commission
• Children Online: Research & Evidence (CO:RE)
• ySKILLS (YouthSkills)
• The Nurture Network
• Global Kids Online

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Imagine you could experience worlds that you design and build the way you want them to be; alternative realities that you can enter and leave as you wish. Now, imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for... imagine all the people, livin' life in peace.

You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.

Certainly not the only one. 

There are — and there have always been — brilliant minds that dream and work very hard to make wishes come true. 

The advancement of our knowledge and the convergence of advanced technologies has allowed us to reach goals in many different scientific disciplines that we could merely imagine a few decades ago. From self-driving cars and rovers on Mars; to Artificial Intelligence quantum computing; to clean energy and medical advancement — the future is a lot more present than you think.

Some scenarios are more tangible than others; that may be, let's say, a bit more virtual and involve alternative realities. But what is reality anyway? 

In this podcast, we are joined by an incredible guest to talk about ant colonies, Metaverses, Virtual & Augmented Realities, diversity, ethics, and some thoughts about the future.

She tells us about her zoology studies and how she became a Unity/C# games and software developer, specializing in immersive experiences such as AR, VR & XR.

Her name is Antonia Forster. She is an experienced public speaker having delivered talks at venues including London Science Museum, the Royal Society, Kew Gardens, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, At-Bristol Science Museum, and more.

In 2017, her record-breaking TEDxBristol talk was delivered to a live audience of 2,000 people and has since gained over 92,000 views online.

In 2018, Antonia was nominated and shortlisted for Nature's John Maddox Prize in recognition of her work as an LGBTQ+ speaker and activist.

She has been named one of Bristol's Top Nine "Women To Watch" in STEM and featured in numerous magazine, radio, and television features.

Listen to this podcast, and we promise more fascinating conversations with her on ITSPmagazine.

Guest
Antonia Forster, XR Technical Specialist at Unity Technologies (@AntoniaRForster on Twitter)

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Nostalgia is not as good as it used to be. 😬  Each generation talks about the "good ole days" and how life was simpler, better; even the toys were so much simpler and more fun back then. Then technology kicked in — what's up next?

From manual to mechanical; kinetic to electronic; analog to digital; calculator to a personal computer; telephone to the Internet — "real" reality to virtual and augmented versions, human intelligence to artificial intelligence  —  and everything in between, and beyond.

Lately, each generation has found itself in the middle of some technological transformation. In the past 70 years, this has happened more often, and it has affected our society and personal everyday life in much more profound and significant ways.

In the 80s, many exceptional transformations took place  —  we could consider it the portal that brought us in direct contact with the modern digital technology age. Faster than any past transformation before, our work, family, friends, and personal lives changed in front of our own eyes and opened the way to an unstoppable and constant change. Moore's law can give an idea of the magnitude here, but it may miss the full extent of today's technological evolution.

We start the conversation today by looking back at the many electronic gadgets, our first electronic games, Walkman's, digital watches, and the first computers of our younger age. Then we try to understand what made them so unique and so magical to have captured our attention at the time; in many cases, they actually shaped our future professional lives.

Will the young generations of today look back at a smartphone the same way we look at a VHS player back then? What made that technology so unique? What makes vintage electronics and gadgets still capture our attention and the desire to bring those back into our lives even today. Maybe even more than ever.

This is where technology and life meet, but we promise that these conversations will not stop here. We do not know where they will go, but if you stay tuned, you will know when we do.

Guest(s)
Diana Kelley, Limor Kessem, Chris Roberts, Cody Wamsley, and Scott Scheferman

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We often feel the need to clarify the real meaning of marketing terms floating around technology and cybersecurity. We believe in sharing knowledge and educate people instead of fooling and luring them with blinking lights. Today we go back to terms we have discussed in the past and see if we have made any progress in the way we present them to the general public:  artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

In today's episode, nearly four years later, we invited Scott Scheferman to see what has changed since, and to do so in a more conversational style, we asked him to co-host this episode and bring a guest with him: Joyce Drohan.

The capabilities brought to bear by AI and ML have become table stakes in cybersecurity. Customers expect every vendor to have some form of AI or ML in their product or service. However, does it matter to the customer if it works; how it works?

Apart from the marketing use of these terms, the big questions are what is real now and what is not; what are the way we can benefit from AI and ML in the present time; what can be considered the next feasible advancement that we can see coming; and what fields will help the most.

In fields such as cybersecurity, medicine, banking, there are already returns on investment that are clear, quantifiable, and somehow unrefutable. We may all agreed that "It takes a Terminator to kill a Terminator." But we may as well decide on when a "Terminator" would not be appropriate. In doing so, we enter the realm of society where the technology operates in connection with humans and for humans. Let's use ethics and philosophy to think about desirable or unpleasant scenarios before it is too late.

Will we ever get to a point when humans are no longer needed?

Do we want that?

We believed that we should always be needed and most definitely be in a position where we still have a choice in the matter.

What do you think?

Listen up and let us know your thoughts.

Guest(s)
Joyce Drohan

Co-Host(s)
Scott Scheferman

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Music holds a special place in most humans' hearts. It makes us feel; makes us think; makes us act; makes us interact. The history and future of music are filled with innovation, technology, and hacking. When you know what the rules are, you can break them. This holds true for the way humans engage with sound and vibration.

What does the future hold for us humans as it relates to music and sound? Have a listen to this Unusual Gathering to get a uniquely-shared, yet interestingly distant view from our guests.

Guest(s)
Seth Cluett | Scott Scheferman (aka Shaggie)

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Our co-host today was Ted Harrington {@SecurityTed} and our fantastic guest was Theresa Payton {@TrackerPayton}. What is misinformation and how does it impact us?

Have a listen to this episode and be sure to read Theresa’s new book: Manipulated

Guest(s)
Theresa Payton

Co-Host(s)
Ted Harrington

Resources
Follow Theresa on social media at
https://twitter.com/TrackerPayton
https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresapayton

Be sure to read Theresa’s new book: Manipulated

https://www.amazon.com/Manipulated-Inside-Cyberwar-Elections-Distort/dp/1538133504/

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