Future Out Loud podcast

Future Out Loud podcast

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Future Out Loud podcast episodes

  • Cybersecurity Research Ethics
    Cybersecurity expert Adam Doupé returns to Future Out Loud to talk with Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross about the growing field of cybersecurity research and the need for a code of ethics to guide the unprecedented work that fills the world of digital security.
    Show Notes
    •Adam Doupé: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2412296
    •More information on SQL injection vulnerabilities: http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/sql-injection/
    •Cyber-security Research Ethics Decision Support Tools: https://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2015/ethics_research_development_creds/
    •What is vulnerability disclosure? http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/vulnerability-disclosure
    •What is a Zero Day vulnerability? http://www.pctools.com/security-news/zero-day-vulnerability/
    •More information on botnets: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/botnet
    39 min
  • Frankenstein
    David Guston chats with Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross about Frankenstein and the 2017 Emerge Festival of Futures (25 February 2017; emerge.asu.edu). They also discuss the great Mel Brooks, and learn why Mary Shelley is an underappreciated futurist and radical youth leader.
    Show Notes
    •Dave Guston, Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society: http://cspo.org/people/guston-david/
    •The Frankenstein Bicentennial Project at ASU: http://frankenstein.asu.edu/
    •Emerge: A Festival of Futures at ASU will take place on Saturday, February 25: http://emerge.asu.edu/
    •Learn more about the Scribblebot and the conversation it creates surrounding bioethics: http://cspo.org/teaching-bioethics-with-pool-noodles/
    •200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/frankenstein-lives-200-years-later/2016/08/23/e6c572c8-64ad-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html?utm_term=.fed56f0e16c8
    36 min
  • SolarSPELL
    Laura Hosman joins Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about SolarSPELL: a solar-powered educational learning library that she is deploying in remote Pacific islands in partnership with Peace Corps teachers.
    Show Notes
    •Laura Hosman: https://sfis.asu.edu/node/1810
    •Solar Powered Educational Learning Library: http://solarspell.org/
    •No internet, no power, no problem: https://sfis.asu.edu/node/1528
    •Solar SPELL on Cronkite News: https://ict4dviewsfromthefield.wordpress.com/
    •ASU State Press article on Solar SPELL that sparked library collaboration: http://www.statepress.com/article/2016/09/spscience-engineering-solarspell-asu-lab-digital-library
    37 min
  • Stem Cell Clinics
    Emma Frow joins Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about the uncharted landscape of unregulated stem cell clinics.
    Show Notes
    •Emma Frow: http://cspo.org/people/frow-emma/
    •The FDA has been cracking down on clinics offering stem cell therapies that have not undergone FDA regulation: https://www.statnews.com/2016/02/08/fda-crackdown-stem-cell-clinics/
    •Nature Journal took a look at the issue of stem cell regulation last year: http://www.nature.com/news/fda-should-stand-firm-on-stem-cell-treatments-1.20208
    •A Cautionary Tale of Stem Cell Tourism: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/health/a-cautionary-tale-of-stem-cell-tourism.html?_r=0
    35 min
  • Deborah Strumsky: A Tall Drink of Interdisciplinary Kool Aid
    Deborah Strumsky joins Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross for a deep dive into the fun and fascinating (yes, really!) world of complex innovation systems economics.
    •Deborah Strumsky: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2713533
    •Deborah Strumsky and José Lobo reflect on dentifying the sources of technological novelty in the process of invention: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1016/j.respol.2015.05.008
    •The siloing of innovation areas is preventing interdisciplinary technologies. Check out Deborah Strumsky’s article, Measuring the Relative Importance of Reusing, Recombining, and Creating Technologies in the Process of Invention: https://www.santafe.edu/research/results/working-papers/measuring-the-relative-importance-of-reusing-recom
    38 min
  • Hands Off? Jack Stilgoe on Autonomous Vehicles
    Jack Stilgoe joins Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about the present and future of autonomous vehicles.
    Show Notes
    •Jack Stilgoe: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us/jack_stilgoe/
    •Experiment Earth: Responsible Innovation in Geoengineering: https://experimentearth.org/author/jackstilgoe/
    •Future Out Loud in the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University: https://riskinnovation.asu.edu/futureoutloud/
    •Tesla crash report blames human error—this is a missed opportunity: https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2017/jan/21/tesla-crash-report-blames-human-error-this-is-a-missed-opportunity?CMP=share_btn_tw
    43 min
  • Clark Miller Returns: More On Election Systems
    Clark Miller returns to the Future Out Loud podcast to talk about election systems with Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross.
    •Clark Miller: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/977682
    •Check out our podcast page on the School for the Future of Innovation in Society: https://riskinnovation.asu.edu/futurethink-podcast/
    •Clark wrote a research article after the 2000 election on the topic of elections as knowledge systems. Check it out here: www.jstor.org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/stable/4144333
    •“Imagined Democracies: Necessary Political Fictions” by Israeli author Professor Yaron Ezrahi was mentioned by Clark in our previous podcast on elections. Find out more about the book and the narrative of politics it proposes here: www.amazon.com/Imagined-Democrac…ons/dp/1107025753
    •How Blockchain and Bitcoin Can Prevent a Hacked Election: http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/interview/how-blockchain-and-bitcoin-can-prevent-a-rigged-election/
    46 min
  • American Dream Lab
    Michael Bennett and Lauren Withycombe-Keeler join Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about the American Dream Lab.
    •Guests
    oLauren Wythecombe-Keeler: http://cspo.org/people/keeler-lauren- withycombe/
    oMichael Bennett: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/2003699
    •More information on their course, The Future of the American Dream: http://futureoftheamericandream.com/hsd-598-topic-the-future-of-the-american-dream/
    •In December, the New York Times wrote about a current economic understanding of how the American Dream has changed over time: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/opinion/the-american-dream-quantified-at-last.html?_r=0
    40 min
  • New Year Out Loud
    Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross reveal the new podcast name and talk about plans for 2017.
    Please like, share, and comment on the conversations we’re having. Your input is important to us and we’re looking forward to hearing more of your input in the new year.
    Check us out on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-out-loud-podcast/id1171268448?mt=2
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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/futureoutloud
    13 min
  • Felonious Bunk
    Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross discuss an online interactive quiz that claims to predict one's likelihood of committing a white-collar crime. Take the Veris Prime test to see (allegedly) if you are a potential white collar criminal here: http://verisbenchmarks.com/
    If you haven't seen Minority Report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report
    Another attempt at using data to predict future crime: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
    23 min

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