Leila Janah and Luis von Ahn are two of the 17 MakeTechHuman Agents of Change Join us to discuss making a global impact through technology. Leila has created a platform for digital work, serving impoverished people around the world, and Luis has created a global learning platform to help people learn languages. And don't forget that you personally will be able to learn Klingon on Duolingo. 

#maketechhuman Episode 6: Leilah Janah, Samasource and Luis von Ahn, Duolingo, MakeTechHuman Agents of Change

#maketechhuman is a new podcast hosted by The Nerdist’s Matt Mira, presented by WIRED Brand Lab and enabled by Nokia, to explore where technology is heading and how it is impacting humanity. Our goal is to host a series of discussions and debates that will impact global discourse, human behavior and even product development and policy making. Over the next few months, we'll be exploring a number of core #maketechhuman issues, such as Artificial Intelligence, Privacy + Security, Connectivity, and Equity. You won't want to miss a single episode. Participants in the #maketechhuman program include Dan Ariely, Yves Behar, Rodney Brooks, Stephen Hawking, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Monica Lewinsky, Fei-Fei Li, Sugata Mitra and Hossein Moiin. For more, check out wired.com/maketechhuman.

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United States CTO Megan Smith and Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig join us for todays #maketechhuman.  In this episode we discuss governing in a supremely digital age. How is it different? Where is it going? What can you do? 

#maketechhuman Episode 9: Megan Smith and Larry Lessig discuss Digital Policy

Recorded at the OZO launch event in Los Angeles, the MakeTechHuman podcast visits with Nokia Technologies president Ramzi Haidamus and pioneering VR artist Nonny de la Peña to discuss the nascent medium of VR as a storytelling platform, as well as the creative possibilities of the new Nokia OZO — a compact VR camera that is designed to bring virtual reality to life.

#maketechhuman Episode 8: Nonny de la Peña and Ramzi Haidamus discuss Virtual Reality and the OZO camera

Karim El Malki founder and CEO of Athnet,  Mick Ebeling, CEO of Not Impossible and Hossein Moiin, Chief technology officer for Nokia Networks join the program today to discuss how Technology is being used to solve some of the large scale problems facing humanity. 

#maketechhuman Episode 7: Karim El Malki, Mick Ebeling and Hossein Moiin on Solving Problems with Technology

Jeff Cole, Director and CEO, Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California  and Mother/Blogger of digitalmomblog.com,  Molly Thornberg.  Discuss the impact of technology on kids. From how they interact with it to what it's like for children now vs a time when the mobile screens weren't everywhere. 

#maketechhuman Episode 6: Leilah Janah, Samasource and Luis von Ahn, Duolingo, MakeTechHuman Agents of Change

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