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Episode #11: Nathaniel Raymond on Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation
Nathaniel Raymond (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Raymond), Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, joins me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1974 film, *The Conversation* (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation). Nathaniel makes a compelling argument that the movie was a history of the future - with Coppola accurately documenting the profound shift that surveillance technology would have on individuals and society. As Nathaniel says in our discussion: the movie is somehow more relevant to society today, 50 years after it was made.
Many thanks to Natty for coming and doing this with me. He was the absolute best person I could have on to discuss *The Conversation*.
Notes!
- "New ways of seeing create new ways of being blind": theworld.org/stories/2023/07/27/tracking-atrocities-sudan-world-has-become-significantly-less-anonymous-war - Interview with Nathaniel about monitoring atrocities in Sudan
- th-cam.com/video/yC7GrxeuCIM/w-d-xo.html
- Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: The Conversation: library.yale.edu/event/treasures-yale-film-archive-conversation
- *Noli Tangere Cordis*, *do not touch the heart*: www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/12/the-path-heart-what-medical-experts-forgot.html - a story of medical progress and shifting ethics
- The historic Blue Baby operation: hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/26/blue-baby-operation/
- The revelation of MKUltra in 1973: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra#Revelation
- The Satellite Sentinel Project: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Sentinel_Project
- Recap of the discussion of Internet Power talk at Yale: jackson.yale.edu/news/governing-in-the-era-of-internet-power-and-big-data/
- th-cam.com/video/o8-i7lA5gic/w-d-xo.html
Listen next month for a discussion with Gina Trapani (ginatrapani.org) about *Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow* by Gabrielle Zevin.
Happy Holidays!
Many thanks to Natty for coming and doing this with me. He was the absolute best person I could have on to discuss *The Conversation*.
Notes!
- "New ways of seeing create new ways of being blind": theworld.org/stories/2023/07/27/tracking-atrocities-sudan-world-has-become-significantly-less-anonymous-war - Interview with Nathaniel about monitoring atrocities in Sudan
- th-cam.com/video/yC7GrxeuCIM/w-d-xo.html
- Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: The Conversation: library.yale.edu/event/treasures-yale-film-archive-conversation
- *Noli Tangere Cordis*, *do not touch the heart*: www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/12/the-path-heart-what-medical-experts-forgot.html - a story of medical progress and shifting ethics
- The historic Blue Baby operation: hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/26/blue-baby-operation/
- The revelation of MKUltra in 1973: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra#Revelation
- The Satellite Sentinel Project: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Sentinel_Project
- Recap of the discussion of Internet Power talk at Yale: jackson.yale.edu/news/governing-in-the-era-of-internet-power-and-big-data/
- th-cam.com/video/o8-i7lA5gic/w-d-xo.html
Listen next month for a discussion with Gina Trapani (ginatrapani.org) about *Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow* by Gabrielle Zevin.
Happy Holidays!
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Episode #10: Mark Coatney on A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Mark Coatney ( www.linkedin.com/in/markcoatney/ ), long-suffering digital media pioneer (Time! Newsweek! Tumblr! Al Jazeera!), gets me to finally read a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin and I loved it. Topics include our changing world, what the world is for, preindustrial longing, why we should maybe recognize that media companies are ephemeral things, the pitfalls of power, lame AI, floating orbs o...
Episode #9: Esther Dyson on Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Spike Jonze’s Her
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Esther Dyson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Dyson), whose bio defies summarization (and who happens to be sister of previous guest George Dyson (th-cam.com/video/smq8X0xBLyI/w-d-xo.html)), discusses *Never Let Me Go* by Kazuo Ishiguro and Spike Jonze's *Her*. We discuss the substance of life, bioethics, why our senses aren't always reliable, institutions and culture, predatory business models, c...
Episode #8: Jordan Tigani on The Analytical Language of John Wilkins by Jorge Luis Borges
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Jordan Tigani (www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/), duck herder and renowned "database person," gives us the gift of "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (www.crockford.com/wilkins.html) by Jorge Luis Borges. We talk about about the potential of language, the limits of language, compression, sloppy ontologies, LLMs, what thing the universe is, simulated annealing, our vague comprehension of...
Episode #7: Max Lenormand on The Little Prince and Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Max Lenormand, geospatial data scientist, podcaster, and continually curious frenchman teaches us about the fascinating Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the background behind his books *Night Flight* and *The Little Prince*. We talk about humans' strange ambition, personal sacrifice, mortality, immortality, aviation, communication networks, and why love is a choice. A few notes and links: - Buy *Ni...
Episode #6: Io Blair-Freese on Borges
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Io Blair-Freese – philosopher, international development pioneer, and lover of maps and computers – guides us through "The Zahir" and "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" by Jorge Luis Borges. We talk about idealist philosophy, inevitable religions, identity, the power of attention, the limitations of attention, and the limitlessness of language. A few notes and links: - Buy Jorge Luis...
Episode #5: George Dyson on The Voice of the Dolphins
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George Dyson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dyson_(science_historian)), historian, boat maker, master human technologist, and friend of friends discusses the totally wild The Voice of the Dolphins by Leo Szilard, which Dyson read when it was given to him by Szilard's wife when Dyson was 11 years old. We talk about AI, geopolitics, alignment (lol), and humanity. A few notes and links: - George Dy...
Episode #4: Chris Beddow on Jorge Louis Borges and Umberto Eco
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Chris Beddow (worldbuilder.substack.com), mapmaker, voyager, philosopher, and very good skier uses Borges's "On Exactitude in Science" and Umberto Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1" to go very very deep on the map-territory relationship (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map-territory_relation). Listen and learn how to recognize how your experience on this plan...
Episode #3: Sean Gorman on Dune by Frank Herbert
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Sean Gorman ( seangorman), geospatial entrepreneur extraordinaire, uses Dune to explain security policy, geopolitics, capitalism, sustainability, common knowledge, the erosion of common knowledge, the importance of friction in political institutions, reasons to think harder about opening up data, and why the OpenStreetMap community are basically Fremen. Note that we recorded this in ...
Episode #2: Jason Goldman on Dune by Frank Herbert
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Jason Goldman, one of the world's foremost Dune podcast pioneers (listen to Escape Hatch! escapehatchpod.com), talks about all of the Dune books, all of the Dune movies, the Dune TV shows, democracy, institutions, the dangers of charismatic leaders, the (a)moral arc of technological progress, the potential of governing with data, and how so many technologists miss the point of the literature th...
Episode #1: Tim O'Reilly on Dune by Frank Herbert
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Tim O’Reilly (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O'Reilly) is our first guest, ostensibly to talk about Dune, but we end up talking about much more, including mysticism, poetry, philosophy, leadership, and our responsibility as humans to transcend our limits. I've listened to this episode countless times as I've edited it and it is *such a gift*. I'm really grateful to Tim for doing it with me. A few no...
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Excellent!!
Great guest!
Thanks for having me on Jed, I really appreciated our conversation!
Entirely my pleasure! So glad we did this. 🙏
love it!
love *you*!
ToT delievers once again!
can't stop won't stop
Literally the best podcast I'm aware of. love every episode. keep it up!
Gracias pues hermanoooooooooooo! 🙏
This interview offers profound insights! Dune significantly shaped my worldview, and I find it fascinating to hear about others' experiences with Dune.
I LOVE this podcast. This is HANDS DOWN the best episode yet. Love it.
I LOVE this podcast. THIS. - is best episode do date.
I LOVE this podcast. Best episode do date.
I LOVE this podcast. Best episode ever.
Wonderful conversation and I’m impressed to have such guest for episode 1!