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The Cultures episodes
- 191: Border Controls, Computer Vision, Corporate Activism
- Border controls and demanding specific income levels for immigrants
- The potential of computer vision
- Corporate political activism (Andrea's short story)
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
35 min - 190: Fog of War, BBC2 in 1998 and Now, Becoming Obsolete
- Fog of War, breaking news, and the illusion of infinite knowledge
- BBC2 Sunday mornings in 1988 vs today
- Becoming obsolete
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
43 min - 189: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish, World's Fair of 2014, Infomocracy
- The "Ultra-Orthodox Jewish transgender woman" court case
- Isaac Asimov imagines The World's Fair of 2014 (Writing the Future of Healthcare competition)
- Infomocracy (back to that nation-state idea)
Note: Adrian had a bit of a cough this ep, sorry! But he was also using a new pop guard, so hopefully the audio sounds better most of the time.
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
43 min - 188: Carpentry, Reviewing Books, Ninefox Gambit, Protests Work!
- Carpentry
- Using Goodreads highlights to review books (Adrian's review of Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable)
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- It turns out protests are super-effective!
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
43 min - 187: Telltale games, Civic engagement as a fandom, Attitudes towards your death
- The evolution of Telltale games
- Civic engagement as a fandom
- What attitude would you like to have towards your own death? (John Berger's Ways of Seeing)
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
30 min - 186: First Week of The Regime, What Can Techies Do?, Preppers
- The first week of The Regime
- Ideas for what techie people could do to help
- Doomsday preppers
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
28 min - 185: Making Programmers Obsolete, Obama/Trump on Israel, Russia/China Energy Wars
- What will make programmers obsolete? (NY Times on Google AI and translation, New Scientist on Google AI inventing its own language)
- What is one to make of this Obama/Trump antisemitism/philo-semitism confuso-switcherama?
- America as a proxy in the energy war between Russia and China (@babiejenks on Twitter)
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
39 min - 184: Bra Sizing, the Internet Bubble, Nintendo Switch
- Stupid bra sizing ZOMFG (ABraThatFits on Reddit)
- Advent calendars
- Does "the internet bubble" also make us sickened with stuff we previously thought was *fine*?
- The Nintendo Switch
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
35 min - 183: Movie-making, Medium, Scientists on Scientists, Atwood
- Tips on applying to become Naomi's trainee writer
- Naomi on the filming of her novel, Disobedience
- Mad respect for Medium
- What scientists think about scientists
- Our reading habits, and how many books a day Margaret Atwood reads
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
37 min - 182: Yoga Pants, What Makes Things Cool, The Nation-State
- Andrea explains yoga pants
- What makes things cool?
- Is the nation-state a bankrupt and redundant institution? (Kwame Anthony Appiah Reith Lectures)
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
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About The Cultures
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Adrian Hon, Andrea Phillips, and Naomi Alderman talk about technology, books, publishing, games, science, religion, films, TV, politics, and how to live a good life.