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Podcast featuring lively discussions on current issues in technology and its consequences — our views and those of other invited experts, as we use the Internet’s five decades of history to puzzle out possible futures.

Gartner's   for   report is out, and   is the star of the show. According to Gartner, this technology is expected to bri...
20/12/2023

Gartner's for report is out, and is the star of the show. According to Gartner, this technology is expected to bring transformational benefits in the next 2-5 years. Join me and my TechSequences co-host Leslie Daigle for a discussion with former Gartner Research VP, Magnus Revang, on the challenges of designing clever and the innovations we can expect with generative AI. Listen to our on the promise beyond the hype cycle here:

Every year, Gartner unveils its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report, spotlighting 25 pivotal technologies to keep a keen eye on. It is hardly surprising then that this year generative AI took center stage in the report as Gartner believes it will yield transformational benefits in the next t...

Can major scientific innovations be driven to deliver on the promise of social justice?  Dr. Jenny Reardon of the Center...
30/11/2023

Can major scientific innovations be driven to deliver on the promise of social justice? Dr. Jenny Reardon of the Center for Science and Justice Research at UC Santa Cruz joins co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle to discuss the important topic of science, capitalism and social justice.
https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/11/science-capitalism-and-social-justice-can-we-do-better/

Guest: Jenny Reardon Since the mid 2000’s the field of genetics has seen rapid technological innovation, particularly in DNA sequencing and genotyping technologies that enable analysis of large portions of an individual’s genome at a relatively affordable cost. These advancements

There is no question that an informed public and a free press are critical requirements for a functioning democracy. But...
09/11/2023

There is no question that an informed public and a free press are critical requirements for a functioning democracy. But what if the public has little to no trust in the news media? How can we have a functioning democracy if citizens are unable to discern fact from fiction, or unable to trust any news outlet?
Please join TechSequences co-hosts Leslie Daigle and Alexa Raad or a conversation with Sally Lehrman, award winning journalist, author and founder of The Trust Project an international consortium of news organizations working towards greater transparency and accountability in the global news industry. We discuss why and how to translate the rigors of journalism into easily understood and implemented "Trust Indicators" and more.
https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/11/how-do-you-know-what-news-to-trust/

There is no question that an informed public and a free press are critical requirements for a functioning democracy. But what if the public has little to no trust in the news media? How can we have a functioning democracy if citizens are wary of what is fact versus fiction?

It is more than likely that you drive an internet enabled car. Although these cars  affords us luxuries deemed unattaina...
18/10/2023

It is more than likely that you drive an internet enabled car. Although these cars affords us luxuries deemed unattainable a few decades ago, they are also massive personal information collection engines, stockpiling information about you from your use of the car, the car’s app as well as 3rd party services such as Sirius XM or Google maps. And, by the way, most share or sell your data, all with little to no transparency or accountability to the users.
How did this come about? Are some manufacturers better than others? Should we accept these costs as the unavoidable cost of convenience? And if not, then what recourse do we have? To discuss these and more, TechSequences podcast co-hosts Leslie Daigle and Alexa Raad for a conversation with Zoë MacDonald of the “Privacy Not Included Buyers Guide” of the Mozilla Foundation
https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/10/connected-cars-and-the-privacy-debacle/

The increased number of Internet enabled cars affords us luxuries deemed unattainable a few decades ago. We can now navigate roads in a way to avoid traffic jams, diagnose problems and often fix glitches with a software upgrade, personalize our driving experience and entertainment, and much more. Bu...

A revolution is afoot in media and by extension, journalism. Economic factors have caused the decline of local media to ...
14/09/2023

A revolution is afoot in media and by extension, journalism. Economic factors have caused the decline of local media to the point where in the US two newspapers are forced to shut down every week. Another revolution – this one driven by advances in AI – is also shaking up media outlets and journalism. AI can represent enormous opportunities as well as existential risks for journalism. At question is both the use of AI by media outlets as well as the use of content (including copyrighted works) by AI companies. As media outlets like Germany’s biggest tabloid, Bild and BuzzFeed start to use AI, critics warn that use of AI in media and journalism could create and amplify misinformation, disinformation as well as promote bias. It is clear that if we are to set guardrails for the use of AI, the time is now. But the question remains what and how?
Please join TechSequences co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a conversation with author, researcher and scholar Courtney Radsch, PhD, the Director of the Center Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute to discuss the potential consequences for media and journalism with the advent of AI.

A revolution is afoot in media and by extension, journalism. Economic factors have caused the decline of local media to the point where in the US two newspapers are forced to shut down every week. Another revolution – this one driven by advances in AI – is also shaking up media outlets and journ...

25/08/2023

With the advances in AI and increasing sophistication in creating misleading content such as deepfakes, there is growing concern especially amongst academics and researchers about the threat mis- and dis-information pose not only for the 2024 election cycle and democracy, but also for pressing conce...

With the advances in AI and increasing sophistication in creating misleading content such as deepfakes, there is growing...
23/08/2023

With the advances in AI and increasing sophistication in creating misleading content such as deepfakes, there is growing concern especially amongst academics and researchers about the threat mis- and dis-information pose not only for the 2024 election cycle and democracy, but also for pressing concerns such as public health and climate change. How can we address a polluted information ecosystem at a time of significant social divide and erosion of trust? How can scientific principles and approach inform policy? Join TechSequences hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a conversation with International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) co-founder and Executive Director Sheldon Himelfarb. The IPIE was publicly launched at the The Nobel Prize Summit in May 2023.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/08/scientists-confronting-the-disinformation-ecosystem/

With the advances in AI and increasing sophistication in creating misleading content such as deepfakes, there is growing concern especially amongst academics and researchers about the threat mis- and dis-information pose not only for the 2024 election cycle and democracy, but also for pressing conce...

Despite lots of anecdotal evidence and even whistleblower allegations  such as the Facebook Papers, the reality is that ...
09/08/2023

Despite lots of anecdotal evidence and even whistleblower allegations such as the Facebook Papers, the reality is that we know very little about the impact of product design decisions made by social media companies on harms such as mental health or even incitement to violence. Namely, we don’t have standardized processes for evaluating product changes for societal harms, nor do we have metrics that can adequately measure, trend, compare and contrast harms across various social media platforms. We also lack mechanisms to separate causation from correlation. So what to do?
Please join hosts Leslie Daigle and Alexa Raad for a conversation with Nathaniel Lubin a “Rebooting Social Media” or RSM fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University for a discussion on whether the emergence of such transparent processes could help us build or reform these systems to preserve the positive impacts while mitigate the societal harms?
https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/08/measuring-social-media-impacts-on-mental-health/

In the fall of 2021, Whistleblower Frances Haugen—a former member of the Civic Integrity team at Meta—shared a cache of more than 1,300 documents that would come to be known collectively as the Facebook Papers. A key takeaway from Frances Haugen’s testimony to Congress in 2022 was that Meta ex...

Between climate change and regulatory mandates, there are lots of reasons for us to “go green”. But many of the green te...
24/07/2023

Between climate change and regulatory mandates, there are lots of reasons for us to “go green”. But many of the green technologies such as electric vehicles rely on critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt considered in short supply per the current supply chain. But what if artificial intelligence and data science could help us find new and better sources? Please join TechSequences co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a conversation with Stanford University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Jef Caers on AI’s role for a more sustainable future.

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The EU is requiring all cars sold in the European Union by 2035 to be zero-emission vehicles, and the US has set a target of 67% by 2032.  But there is a catch. Transition to Electric vehicles and consequently clean energy, relies on lots of minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel. These are mine...

The increasing profile of AI thanks to ChatGPT, Google’s PaLM2 has lead to not only excitement but also anxiety on how t...
17/05/2023

The increasing profile of AI thanks to ChatGPT, Google’s PaLM2 has lead to not only excitement but also anxiety on how to regulate AI. However, we currently lack a coherent and global roadmap on how we should address issues such as fairness, transparency, standards and innovation. It is reasonable that like-minded governments such as the US, UK and EU, should find ways to cooperate on AI innovation and regulation, with an approach that promotes shared values such as respect for human rights, inclusion, non-discrimination and protection of privacy and personal data. However, this is easier said than done. So is there a realistic guide to managing AI’s risks and promises? Please join TechSequences co-host Leslie Daigle and Alexa Raad for a conversation with The Brookings Institution fellow Alex Engler.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/05/a-realistss-guide-to-ai-risks/

ChatGPT has highlighted the excitement and fear about the potential consequences of AI for humanity, and in doing so has pushed forth the need to examine if and how to regulate AI. However, we currently lack a coherent and global roadmap on how we should address issues such as fairness, transparency...

Freedom of thought — the right to form your own thoughts, keep them private, and to not be persecuted for your thoughts ...
15/03/2023

Freedom of thought — the right to form your own thoughts, keep them private, and to not be persecuted for your thoughts alone — is one of the most fundamental human rights. This right, recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human rights in 1948, seems so utterly basic that we may take its protection for granted. Yet this very right may be undermined every time you are presented with a curated selection of content determined by an algorithm purpose built to get and engage your attention. Join hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle on the latest podcast, as we talk to international human rights lawyer and author of “Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds” Dr. Susie Alegre, about how our thoughts and opinions are manipulated and what to do to reclaim this basic right.


https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/03/are-algorithms-threatening-your-freedom-of-thought/

Freedom of thought — the right to form your own thoughts, keep them private and to not be persecuted for your thoughts alone — is one of the most fundamental human rights. This right, recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human rights in 1948, seems so utterly basic that we may take its pro...

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites such as Starlink have been credited with helping Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian conflic...
03/03/2023

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites such as Starlink have been credited with helping Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Their promise extends beyond military reconnaissance to everything from in-flight Internet access to disaster recovery, but challenges remain. Even as companies race to put literally thousands of satellites into orbit, concerns about regulation, management of limited resources, and additional space junk are being raised. Please join co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a chat with Dan York, Director of Internet Technology at the Internet Society, to examine the promise, the implementation challenges, potential consequences of the growing LEO industry.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/03/connecting-the-unconnected-the-promise-of-low-earth-orbit-satellites/

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites such as Starlink have been credited with helping Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Their promise extends beyond military reconnaissance to everything from in-flight Internet access to disaster recovery, but challenges remain. Even as companies race to put lite...

The metaverse is already here.  Companies like  Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, NVIDIA, Epic Games, Facebook Meta  and even SK...
08/02/2023

The metaverse is already here. Companies like Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, NVIDIA, Epic Games, Facebook Meta and even SK Telecom have invested heavily. Thus far, even with 400 million users, the metaverse is still in its infancy. The 3-D virtual places are run by different companies with little interoperability in terms of devices or operating systems; there are no persistent identity and property rights. Would we expect more of the same? Join hosts Leslie Daigle and Alexa Raad for a conversation with Enza Iannopollo Principal Analyst at Forrester for a conversation on the key challenges to solve to deliver the full promise of the metaverse.

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The metaverse is already here. Companies like Meta, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Nike, Nvidia, Epic Games and even SK Telecom have invested heavily. Thus far, even with 400 million users, the metaverse is still in its infancy. The 3-D virtual places are run by different companies with little interope...

Join co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a fascinating discussion with David Weinberger, touching on how we humans...
26/01/2023

Join co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a fascinating discussion with David Weinberger, touching on how we humans have become increasingly fixated on managing what we can understand and (think we can) control, even as chaos surrounds us. Perhaps Machine Learning will teach us patterns exist even when we can't a priori recognize the reason?

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2023/01/everyday-chaos/

For centuries, humans sought to control their future, by anticipating the possibilities and planning accordingly. This model, conditioned on observations and experience – does not work as well in a chaotic and unpredictable world dotted with Black Swan events. How has the internet age redefined ou...

16/12/2022

User Generated Content, known as , has launched protest campaigns, provided eyewitness accounts of major events, been monetized by influencers and brands and perhaps most importantly changed the way we consume news.
Please join co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a conversation with guest, Claire Wardle, PhD, co-founder and co-director of the Brown Information Futures Lab and Professor of the Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, to examine the consequences of user generated content on how we view ourselves and the world we live in.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2022/12/ups-and-downs-of-user-generated-content/

Did you know that cybercrime costs close to 1.0% of global GDP or about $600 billion annually? Cyber criminal gangs have...
02/11/2022

Did you know that cybercrime costs close to 1.0% of global GDP or about $600 billion annually? Cyber criminal gangs have evolved to complex enterprises, sometimes backed by rogue nation states intent on disrupting not only commercial sectors but also critical infrastructure. Join co-hosts Leslie Daigle Alexa Raad as they talk to J. Michael Daniel CEO of Cyber Threat Alliance on the evolution of cybercrime, and changes and investments we need to make to to combat this trend. https://lnkd.in/gbgbGs39

Cybercriminal gangs have evolved into fully-fledged for-profit enterprises that bank on our increasing dependence on digital access to profit handsomely with little to no repercussions. Cybercrime costs $600 billion – or close to 1.0% of global GDP- and that number is only expected to increase. Ac...

Half the world's population uses social media for an average of 2.5 hours per day.   The impact of social media's influe...
13/10/2022

Half the world's population uses social media for an average of 2.5 hours per day. The impact of social media's influence has been greeted with praise and horror. Should it be regulated? Or reimagined? Ethan Zuckerman joins co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle to discuss!

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2022/10/the-good-web/

Globally there are 4 billion people who use social media an average of two hours and 30 minutes a day.  At the same time, social media has been simultaneously praised and denounced in equal measure for its influence on society. Regulators have proposed a range of policies including anti-trust to re...

The US national security and military complex has fostered scientific and technological innovations to gain and maintain...
21/09/2022

The US national security and military complex has fostered scientific and technological innovations to gain and maintain the United States’ security and strategic advantage over its adversaries. Yet as technology and models for innovation have evolved, the means by which the government seeks groundbreaking tech for defense or national security has not. There is a clear difference between innovation in the open, competitive and thriving commercial sector and innovation in the closed, secretive and classified world of the government sector. Does the US have the right model to excel in the current day? And if not, why not?
Join hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a lively discussion with Massachusetts Institute of Technology instructor and author Tina Srivastava, PhD

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The US national security and military complex has fostered scientific and technological innovations to gain and maintain the United States’ security and strategic advantage over its adversaries. Yet as technology and models for innovation have evolved, the means by which the government seeks grou....

Third and final guest in our arc on technology and the war in Ukraine -- Chuck Brooks joins co-hosts Alexa Raad and Lesl...
31/08/2022

Third and final guest in our arc on technology and the war in Ukraine -- Chuck Brooks joins co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a wide-ranging discussion, including important global lessons.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2022/08/global-security-lessons-from-the-ukraine-war/

Ukraine has become ground zero for a new kind of war: a hybrid war that blends conventional warfare and cyberwarfare with tactics such propaganda, fake news, and even foreign electoral intervention. In doing so, both sides of the conflict now rely on a vast array of technologies in their defensive a...

Guest number two!  Co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle discuss how the conflict has changed the cybersecurity landscap...
24/08/2022

Guest number two! Co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle discuss how the conflict has changed the cybersecurity landscape and the nature of war with cybersecurity expert, author and senior fellow at Canada’s Centre for International Governance Innovation, Rafal Rohozinki.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2022/08/bullets-or-bytes-the-future-of-warfare/

The Ukrainian conflict is the world’s first hybrid war. In other words, it is the first international conflict playing out on both the battlefield as well as cyberspace. Despite fears about Russia’s prowess in cyber offense capabilities, successful cyber attacks on US critical infrastructure hav...

First guest in a 3 episode arc -- exploring the difference modern technology makes in warfare.  Co-hosts Alexa Raad and ...
17/08/2022

First guest in a 3 episode arc -- exploring the difference modern technology makes in warfare. Co-hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle talk with Jeffrey Carr about hybrid warfare.

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2022/08/the-worlds-first-cyber-kinetic-hybrid-war/

The conflict in Ukraine is redefining what a world war would look like, and it is decidedly different than what we had imagined. This may well be the world’s first “hybrid” war as the battlefield extends beyond the traditional air, sea and land, to digital space. In this episode we talk to Jef...

We have reached a small milestone: Our 50th published episode of TechSequences  To mark the occasion, join co-hosts Lesl...
03/08/2022

We have reached a small milestone: Our 50th published episode of TechSequences To mark the occasion, join co-hosts Leslie Daigle and Alexa Raad as they take a look back at the technologies that shaped the 20th century, especially the Internet, and we look forward to those that may yet shape the 21st century. And what better guest and guide than Vint Cerf, the co-father of the internet and Google's Chief Evangelist. Having presided over the Internet’s birth, Vint has a unique perspective on its history as well as future outlook. Vint will guide us on a journey to the Internet’s beginnings as a means to connect research and academic institutions to its current iteration as a global network of networks operating well beyond its original remit, to a vision of the future: interplanetary Internet anyone?
Please join us as we journey back in time to better understand the future. https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2022/08/vint-cerf-on-the-history-and-the-future-of-the-internet/

We have reached a small milestone: Our 50th published episode! To mark the occasion, we take a look back at the technologies that shaped the 20th century, especially the Internet, and we look forward towards those that may yet shape the 21st century. And what better guest and guide than Vint Cerf, t...

01/08/2022

Stay tuned for our upcoming 50th episode! With a VERY special guest.

The race to stake out, define and monetize the metaverse has just begun. Although many people are still trying to unders...
21/04/2022

The race to stake out, define and monetize the metaverse has just begun. Although many people are still trying to understand what exactly the metaverse is and whose vision will succeed. What are the invisible hands shaping the economy and user experience of the metaverse? What about interoperability? Will there be a measure of governance and if so by whom? Join # hosts Leslie Daigle and Alexa Raad for a talk with best selling author and expert on Robert Tercek on what we can expect

https://www.techsequences.org/podcasts/2022/04/the-metaverse-space-race/

The race is on. The competition to make, define, own and monetize the metaverse has just begun. Although “metaverse” became a buzzword after Facebook changed its company name to “Meta” in 2021, many people are still trying to understand what exactly the metaverse is and whose vision will suc...

Ukraine, a fledging democracy is under attack on two fronts, with tanks and artillery as well as with disinformation and...
10/03/2022

Ukraine, a fledging democracy is under attack on two fronts, with tanks and artillery as well as with disinformation and propaganda campaigns. Yet, it is not the only democracy under siege from disinformation campaigns. Many democracies face targeted campaigns to manipulate opinions and question the integrity of the election process. Join TechSequences hosts Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle for a conversation with researcher Samantha Bradshaw from the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and Digital Civil Society Lab to discuss playbooks for building resistance and resilience.
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Ukraine, a fledging democracy is under attack on two fronts, with tanks and artillery as well as with disinformation and propaganda campaigns. It is not the only democracy under siege from disinformation campaigns. Many democracies face targeted campaigns to manipulate opinions in question the integ...

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