Future Out Loud podcast

Adam Doupé and Heather Ross discuss how to give the gift of cybersecurity this holiday season to protect your loved ones from the cybersecurity risks that their well-intentioned holiday gifts may incur. Topics cover installing security updates, passwords, password managers, and VPNs.

For your last-minute cybersecurity gifting needs, download our gift certificate coupon sheets at https://riskinnovation.asu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FutureThink-2016_Gift_of_Cybersecurity.pdf. (Don't be shy about re-gifting this for Birthdays, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Arbor Day...you get the idea.)

•Internet-connected Hello Barbie doll can be hacked: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3012220/security/internet-connected-hello-barbie-doll-can-be-hacked.html

•A password managing app can help you to keep all of your accounts and data secure: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lastpass-password-manager/id324613447?mt=8

•The Google Authenticator app can help you to set up two-factor authentication: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-authenticator/id388497605?mt=8

Camille Nebeker (UCSD Dept. of Family Medicine and Public Health; http://profiles.ucsd.edu/camille.nebeker) joins Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about the CORE Project (thecore-platform.ucsd.edu) and challenges with wearable device research. Please note that this podcast was recorded using Skype, so the sound is a bit different than usual. We were also treated to bird songs in the background at various points during the recording session, reminding us that despite our focus on technology and tech policy, our work still sits amid living nature.

Show Notes

•Camille and the Connected and Open Research Ethics (CORE) Project: https://sfis.asu.edu/futurethink/podcast/camille-nebeker-core-project

•The CORE Project at UCSD: https://thecore.ucsd.edu/

•Sensecam for Dementia Patients: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/409170/a-camera-to-help-dementia-patients/

•An overview of the IRB: https://researchintegrity.asu.edu/humans

•Learn more about the Precision Medicine Initiative: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-precision-medicine-initiative

Britt Crow-Miller joins Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about her work mapping flows of people, resources, power, and other factors related to the Chinese South-North Water Transfer Project. More information at Britt's website: www.bcrowmiller.com

•Britt Crow-Miller: https://sfis.asu.edu/node/1794

•Some information on Britt’s work on the South-North water project: http://www.chinausfocus.com/author/10762/Britt+CrowMiller.html

•Sustainability: Transfer project cannot meet China’s water needs: http://www.nature.com/news/sustainability-transfer-project-cannot-meet-china-s-water-needs-1.18792

•Can China’s South-North Water Transfer project and industry coexist?: https://www.thethirdpole.net/2015/10/20/can-chinas-south-north-water-transfer-project-and-industry-co-exist/

Adam Doupé and Jamie Winterton join Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about cybersecurity. They worry about open-source self-driving car kits, admire the emerging cyberwar, and contemplate strategies for family cybersecurity.

•Guests:

o Adam Doupe: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/2412296

o Jamie Winterton: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/72212

•Check out Arizona State University’s Master’s of Science and Technology Policy program: https://sfis.asu.edu/mstp-welcome

•Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University: https://globalsecurity.asu.edu/

•Jamie Winterton, “Don’t Connect to a Public Wi-Fi Network Anywhere You Wouldn’t Go Barefoot”: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/11/02/don_t_connect_to_public_wi_fi_anywhere_you_wouldn_t_go_barefoot.html

•Jamie Winterton, “Keeping Grandma and Grandpa Safe Online”: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/08/senior_citizens_aren_t_dumb_for_falling_prey_to_cyberscams.html

•Geohot’s Self-Driving Car Cancelled: http://hackaday.com/2016/10/29/geohots-self-driving-car-cancelled/

Dan Sarewitz joins Heather Ross to chat about his 2016 article in The New Atlantis: "Saving Science From Itself." Dan and Heather talk about the problems with publishing volume and opaque academic language, and why scientists should be more like independent filmmakers.

•Guest: Dan Sarewitz

•About Dan Sarewitz: http://cspo.org/people/sarewitz-daniel/

•Check out Dan’s article, Saving Science: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science

•Listen to a discussion between Dan and The New Atlantis on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tnajournal/interview-about-saving-science

•Learn more about the Master of Science and Technology Policy program at ASU: https://sfis.asu.edu/mstp-welcome

•The Toxic Use Reduction Institute at the University of Massachusetts Lowell examines ways of reducing the use of toxic chemicals. Their work eschews traditional models, focusing on the ‘solution space’ rather than the ‘problem space': http://www.turi.org/

•The National Breast Cancer Coalition is another organization that has looked at different ways of approaching problem-solving: http://www.breastcancerdeadline2020.org/

•In 2014, a White House unit on Behavioral Psychology was formed. Does this represent a changing stance on the relationship between science and policy? http://thepsychreport.com/current-events/head-of-white-house-nudge-unit-maya-shankar-speaks-about-newly-formed-us-social-and-behavioral-sciences-team/

Ira Bennett and Jamey Wetmore from ASU's Center for Engagement and Training in Science and Society (CENTSS) join Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross to talk about experts, expertise, and some of the problems with scientific research.

•Guests

•Jamey Wetmore: https://sfis.asu.edu/node/1805

•Ira Bennett: https://sfis.asu.edu/node/1804

•Learn more about what Jamey and Ira do with the Center for Engagement & Training in Science and Society: https://ifis.asu.edu/centers/centss

•Check out Dan Sarewitz’s article in the New Atlantis where he discusses how scientists must enter the real world: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science

•And listen to Dan discuss the article on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tnajournal/interview-about-saving-science

•There are over 600 stem cell clinics across the US that are unregulated by FDA, and people are spending a lot of money on it. Has science overpromised its abilities? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/06/30/unregulated-stem-cell-clinics-are-proliferating-across-the-u-s/?utm_term=.b9183581aab4

•Albert Einstein once said that you don’t really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/oct/10/science-communicators-quantum-physics-granny

•Closing thoughts: The work of science and experts must be a team sport. Everybody has a slice of expertise to bring to the table. Science must better reflect the people who are paying for it.

Jamie Winterton, director of strategy for the Global Security Initiative, joins Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard to chat about cybersecurity and national security.

•More info on Jamie Winterton: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/72212

•Learn more about the work that ASU’s Global Security Initiative does: https://globalsecurity.asu.edu/

•What is Botnet, you ask? http://www.pcworld.com/article/3145865/security/the-new-mirai-strain-has-gone-far-beyond-deutsche-telekom.html

•Read more about the Stuxnet worm: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/

•Attribution (knowing who’s doing what to who) is difficult to do in cybersecurity. Read more about the problem of attribution and feasibility of preventing attacks: http://cybersecurity.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/1/53

•Epidemiology of cybersecurity? A CDC for the cybercrime doesn’t sound like a bad idea: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/save-the-net-peter-singer/

•Security can be difficult for busy people. Here are some tips to keep your data safe:

-Use a password manager: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/you-need-a-password-manager/

-Set up two-factor authentication: https://www.google.com/landing/2step/

Jacqueline Wernimont joins Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard to talk about algorithmic bias -- what is it, and how should we think about it now and in the future.

•https://jwernimont.com/ - Jacque Wernimont's website

•https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/2468640 - Jacque's ASU directory listing

•First, let’s definite what an algorithm is. Check out a definition with examples here: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question717.htm

•Jacque talks about the phenomenon of redlining and reverse redlining in Detroit in the 20th century. Read more here: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/03/mapping-the-lasting-effects-of-redlining/388333/

•Read more about Frank Pasquali’s black box society here: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/01/black_box_society_by_frank_pasquale_a_chilling_vision_of_how_big_data_has.html

•Jacque discusses the idea of incorporating diverse perspectives into creating algorithms. Flickr’s photo tagging app is an example of what goes wrong when you don’t. Read more here: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/21/technology/flickr-racist-tags/

•https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/ - a book that we mention in the podcast

•ProPublica found an example of algorithmic bias in our justice system. Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross recap major themes from the futurethink podcast miniseries on the circular economy, part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival.

•Overarching Themes

•Circularity

•The biological system is circular (though you always have sun inputting energy from outside the circle).

• The circular economy model is gaining traction and we discussed its role in cities in an earlier episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-723097380/the-future-of-cities-and-the-circular-economy

•People

•You can’t discount the role that people play in innovation. People are a significant factor in determining if a new technology will work and how it will be implemented.

•We can look at people on two scales: the broader social scale and also on an individual level.

•Inclusion: We need to think about all communities' role in technological transition and how we can engage these communities.

o Heather mentions Martin Buber’s notion of “I and Thou” in the discussion of how we relate and understand to other people. Read more about Buber’s ideas here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/buber/#SH2b

•There is a problem of capital in the energy transition. How do we ease the transition?

o Government incentives

o Social acceptability of technological change

o Creating habits surrounding change

Clark Miller talks with Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard about Energy Transitions and the Circular Economy. This is the 4th episode of the 5-part futurethink series: Innovation, Society, and the Circular Economy for the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival.

Show Notes

Guest, Clark Miller: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/977682

• Check out the Disruptive Innovation Festival at https://www.thinkdif.co/

• Recycling requires enormous amount of energy and is cost-prohibitive. Can an energy transition make it more efficient? Read more: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/10/14/economist-rethink-how-we-recycle

• Developers are bidding record-breaking low prices at a new plant planned for the Middle East. Read more about it: http://fortune.com/2016/09/19/world-record-solar-price-abu-dhabi/

• People being hard hit by energy transition played a significant role in this past election. What compelled coal workers during the election? Read more : http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/04/coal-mining-craig-colorado-election-day-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/93235678/

•Heather discusses the Clay Christensen model of disruption and what it means in energy transitions. Read more: https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation

•Innovation doesn’t always have to be transformative all at once. We can promote idea of incremental innovation so that people’s livelihoods are not disrupted. Read more: https://www.wired.com/insights/2013/11/the-power-of-incremental-innovation/