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Eric Peters is the founder, CEO, and CIO of One River Asset Management. He is a macro-thinker with a rare ability to parse markets, human psychology, and long-term trends. Eric also pens the popular weekly newsletter, Wknd notes, with reflections on markets, global events, and history.

Our conversation with Eric centers on models of change. We cover: Eric’s philosophy and models of change, how he applies these models in markets, and technology as a change agent. We also discuss the power of human imagination, digital assets, and lessons from 20th century financial market history.

About Eric Peters:

Eric Peters — One River Asset Managementwknd-notes Eric Peters – Linkedin

Select essays by Eric:

The Case for Quantum ChangeThe Case for Digital Assets

Speaker References:

One River Asset Management  The Ministry for the Future – WikipediaThe Technium: 1,000 True Fans 

Recommended Books:

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum RevolutionThe Three-Body ProblemExtraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond EarthMoby DickNostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Recommended Authors:

Herman Melville – Wikipedia Joseph Conrad – WikipediaGeorge Orwell – WikipediaAdam Zagajewski – Wikipedia

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Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Our conversation with Andrew centers around the many facets of the Internet. What is the nature of the internet? How is it distinct from the web? Who holds power on the internet? We also talk about the domain name system, emergent properties, important challenges, global accessibility, and the future of the internet.

Dr. Vint Cerf is an internet pioneer commonly known as one of the “father’s of the internet.” He co-designed the TCP/IP protocols, which lie at the heart of the internet. Vint is currently the Chief Internet evangelist at Google.

Among many other accolades, Vint has received the Turing award, presidential medal of freedom and the national medal of technology.

In our conversation with Vint, we cover: the significance of the internet as a technology, building blocks of the internet, the internet’s product-market fit and how it enables permissionless innovation, current challenges and what the future may hold.

About and from Vint Cerf:

Wikipedia: Vint CerfTwitterInternet Hall of Fame

Assorted Links:

TCP/IP Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet Internet governance Internet fragmentation Bundle Protocol Specification Bobiverse Series by Dennis Taylor Behave by Podolsky  Asimov Open Scott Card

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Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Albert Borgmann is a philosopher and writer whose research interests intersect technology, society, and culture. Albert’s theory, the device paradigm, and his book “Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life” are foundational contributions to the philosophy of technology.

Our conversation with Albert focuses on the philosophy of technology: What does philosophy of technology even mean and why is it relevant? Why does technology obscure, abstract, and conceal? We cover these questions as well as: Albert’s theory of technology: the device paradigm, minimalism, the human condition, and the perils and promises of technology.

About and from Albert Borgmann

Albert Borgmann on Wikipedia Albert Borgmann faculty bioTechnology and the Character of Contemporary LifeDevice Paradigm  

Philosophers

Jacques Ellul John Rawls Martin HeideggerMartha Nussbaum

Books and Articles

Stanford: TechnologyThe Supper of the Lamb Wonder BreadMeasuring What Counts

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Music

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Kevin Kelly is one of the leading and deepest thinkers on the technology of our time. A startling percentage of what has been meaningfully said about technology in the past quarter-century can be traced back to him, something we don’t say lightly.   

Kevin Kelly co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its executive editor for seven years. He has written a number of best-selling books including New Rules for the New Economy, Out of Control, The Inevitable, and What Technology Wants.

In this conversation we focus on sketching out the nature of technology and software, the relationship between technology and change, the limitations of software, and Kevin’s 1998 gem, New Rules for the New Economy, which outlines principles to navigate a world transformed by software and the internet.

About and from Kevin Kelley:

Personal Website Wikipidea PageTwitterBooks from KevinNew Rules for the New EconomyTechnium: 1,000 True Fans

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Visit us:  https://www.luminary.fmFollow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/luminaryfmLuminary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminary-fm 

Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Our second season launches with a three-part series featuring the preeminent Mitch Waldrop. We discuss the history, ideas, and origins of computing, software, the internet – and of course, the pioneers and unsung heroes who made it all a reality. It’s hard to imagine a better place to start exploring the more modern notions of change, technology, and software.

Mitch is the author of The Dream Machine, a seminal contribution to the history of modern computing and the internet. Mitch was previously an editorial page and features editor at Nature magazine and has published books on a wide range of topics, including artificial intelligence and complexity.  We tried doing justice to the content of the Dream Machine in one sitting, which quickly expanded into three discrete recording sessions over a handful weeks. We are forever grateful to Mitch.

Our third and final episode with Mitch includes the story behind the intellectual forefather of the internet and interactive computing, JCR Licklider. This was the first recording we did with Mitch which covers a sprawling and wide range of topics, including: JCR Licklider’s role in the research and engineering of personal computing, Xerox PARC and the personal computing revolution, contributions from Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener, adoption of TCP/IP, and the nature of software and computing.

About and from M. Mitchell Waldrop:

Computer History Museum Biohttps://twitter.com/mitchwaldrop The Dream Machine Complexity 

Assorted Links:

The chips are down for Moore’s law Google Scholar: Mitchell Waldrop M. Mitchell Waldrop: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle Scientific American: Stories by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Recommendations:

The Expanse (novel series)Authors: Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Jennifer Rubin, David Frum

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Visit us:  https://www.luminary.fmFollow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/luminaryfmLuminary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminary-fm 

Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Our second season launches with a three-part series featuring the preeminent Mitch Waldrop. We discuss the history, ideas, and origins of computing, software, the internet – and of course, the pioneers and unsung heroes who made it all a reality. It’s hard to imagine a better place to start exploring the more modern notions of change, technology, and software.

Mitch is the author of The Dream Machine, a seminal contribution to the history of modern computing and the internet. Mitch was previously an editorial page and features editor at Nature magazine and has published books on a wide range of topics, including artificial intelligence and complexity.  We tried doing justice to the content of the Dream Machine in one sitting, which quickly expanded into three discrete recording sessions over a handful weeks. We are forever grateful to Mitch.

This second installment of our three-part series with Mitch Waldrop continues from where we left off in episode 1. We launch back into the 70s and make our way through the 80s, 90s, and up to present time. Mitch also offers some thoughts on the future and shares a bit about his recent work.

About and from M. Mitchell Waldrop:

Computer History Museum Biohttps://twitter.com/mitchwaldrop The Dream Machine Complexity 

Assorted Links:

The chips are down for Moore’s law Google Scholar: Mitchell Waldrop M. Mitchell Waldrop: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle Scientific American: Stories by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Recommendations:

The Expanse (novel series)Authors: Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Jennifer Rubin, David Frum

Luminary Podcast:

Visit us:  https://www.luminary.fmFollow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/luminaryfmLuminary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminary-fm 

Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Our second season launches with a three-part series featuring the preeminent Mitch Waldrop. We discuss the history, ideas, and origins of computing, software, the internet – and of course, the pioneers and unsung heroes who made it all a reality. It’s hard to imagine a better place to start exploring the more modern notions of change, technology, and software.

Mitch is the author of The Dream Machine, a seminal contribution to the history of modern computing and the internet. Mitch was previously an editorial page and features editor at Nature magazine and has published books on a wide range of topics, including artificial intelligence and complexity.  We tried doing justice to the content of the Dream Machine in one sitting, which quickly expanded into three discrete recording sessions over a handful weeks. We are forever grateful to Mitch.

This first episode touches on Mitch’s journey writing The Dream Machine and the period from the 1940s through the 1970s, which includes: The philosophy underlying hardware and software, the work of intellectual contributors such as Vannevar Bush, Von Nuemann, and Claude Shannon; interactive computing, the Arpanet, World war II as a catalyst for computing, timesharing, JCR Licklider’s intergalactic network, Arpa’s woodstock moment, and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, also known as PARC. 

About and from M. Mitchell Waldrop:

Computer History Museum Biohttps://twitter.com/mitchwaldrop The Dream Machine Complexity 

Assorted Links:

The chips are down for Moore’s law Google Scholar: Mitchell Waldrop M. Mitchell Waldrop: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle Scientific American: Stories by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Recommendations:

The Expanse (novel series)Authors: Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Jennifer Rubin, David Frum

Luminary Podcast:

Visit us:  https://www.luminary.fmFollow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/luminaryfmLuminary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminary-fm 

Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Jeff Behrends is a director of ethics and technology initiatives at the Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is also a co-director of Embedded EthiCS, a program that teaches ethical reasoning to budding computer scientists.

In this episode we cover: what is ethics and why it matters, how it differs from morality, making ethics cool, and teaching it to students at Harvard via the Embedded Ethics program.

Show Notes

About and from Prof. Jeff Behrends:

Website: https://www.jeffbehrends.comhttps://twitter.com/jeff_behrends Embedded EthiCSGoogle ScholarJeff Behrends, Ethics Education in Computer Science: The Embedded EthiCS ApproachJohn Basl & Jeff Behrends, Why Everyone Has It Wrong About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles [2019 C4eJ 40]  

Book recommendations: 

The Passion of the Western MindWhatever Happened to Good and Evil?Weapons of Mass DestructionThe City We BecameHow Smart Machines Think

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Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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Micael Dahlen is a wonderfully brilliant, thought-provoking, and multi-facetted professor in the Department of Marketing and Strategy at Stockholm School of Economics. He has a uniquely curious mind which has led to novel findings in many areas, including happiness, marketing, habits, and consumer behavior. Micael is the author of Monster, Nextopia, Creativity Unlimited, and the recently released book, Starkt Kul. He is also the creator of Curious with Micael, an audible podcast. 

In this episode we tackle the topic of happiness from all angles: what it is and why it’s important, Michael’s personal journey in search for happiness, models for achieving and measuring happiness, as well as how technology may impact the arc of our future happiness. We also discuss how our environment influences self-perceived happiness. 

There are some real gems in this episode, especially in the second half.  

About and from Prof. Micael Dahlen:

Micael Dahlen – Professor. Author. Speaker.https://twitter.com/micaeldahlenhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Micael_DahlenCurious with Micael Dahlen – Audible Original

Assorted Links:

What to do when what you does not matter?What to do when what you do does not matter – part 1/3What to do when what you do does not matter – part 2/3What to do when what you do does not matter – part 3/3 Performance Lecture: “About Happiness”Lärdomar från världens lyckligaste stad. Samtal med Kristina Heinonen, professor i ekonomiThe office of Micael Dahlén, professor at the Stockholm School of Economics : picsThink Inside the Box – Interviews with Corporate Innovation Leaders23. Living for 1,000 years and happiness as a process with professor Micael Dahlén

Luminary Podcast:

Visit us:  https://www.luminary.fmFollow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/luminaryfmLuminary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminary-fm 

Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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