All episodes
Mary Lou Jepsen - Toward Practical Telepathy
How To Be Futuristic - Bruce Sterling
Whole Earth 50th Anniversary Celebration
San Francisco Time: The Photography of Fred Lyon - Fred Lyon
Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere - Nicola Twilley
Julia Galef - Soldiers and Scouts: Why Our Minds Weren't Built For Truth
The Art and Science of Deep Time - Caroline Winterer
Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future? - Kelly Wanser
Juan Benet: Long Term Info-structure
A Foundation of Trust, Building a Blockchain Future - Brian Behlendorf
The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common - Esther Dyson
George P. Shultz - Perspective
The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century - Hannu Rajaniemi
Motivating Action on Climate Change - Shahzeen Attari
Chris D. Thomas - Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event?
Benjamin Grant - Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope
Science Needs Fiction - Annalee Newitz
Kishore Mahbubani - Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?
Modern Surveillance: Why You Should Care and What You Can Do - Jennifer Granick
Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us - Renée DiResta
Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance - Judy Wajcman
Steven Pinker - A New Enlightenment
Terra Incognita: Exploring the Earth's Most Remote Places - Christopher Michel
Michael Frachetti - Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road
Charles C. Mann - The Wizard and the Prophet
What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us. - Tim O'Reilly
Can Democracy Survive the Internet? - Nathaniel Persily
Elena Bennett - Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
Renee Wegrzyn - Engineering Gene Safety
Journalism in an Age of Misinformation and Centralization - Dan Gillmor
The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge - Margaret Levi
David Grinspoon - Earth in Human Hands
Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time - Scott Kildall
Nicky Case - Seeing Whole Systems
Carolyn Porco - Searching for Life in the Solar System
The Five Ages of Burning Man - Michael Mikel
The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World - Miles Traer
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
James Gleick - Time Travel
How We Became “Unprepared”: Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu - Andrew Lakoff
Geoffrey West - The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
The History & Science of a Persistent Malady - Scurvy Salon
Adapting to Sea Level Rise: The Science of New York 2140 - Kim Stanley Robinson
Why Freedom of Speech Is More Than Speech: Expressions in Media and Code - Jennifer Petersen
Frank Ostaseski - What the Dying Teach the Living
Bjorn Lomborg - From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid
Climate Change and the Future of Cities - Eric Klinenberg
The Psychology of Surveillance: How Being Watched Changes Our Behavior - Tara Behrend
Sometimes Brilliant in Conversation with Stewart Brand - Larry Brilliant
Breaking the Close: Burglary and the Limits of Architecture - Geoff Manaugh
Jennifer Pahlka - Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In
Rationality Redeemed - James Holland Jones
Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo - The Statues Walked: What Really Happened on Easter Island
Steven Johnson - Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Technology & Counterculture from World War II to Today - Fred Turner
Douglas Coupland - The Extreme Present
A Case for Hope in the Anthropocene - Andrew Chignell
David Eagleman - The Brain and The Now
The Next Flight of the Passenger Pigeon: Engineering Nature's Engineers - Ben Novak
Jonathan Rose - The Well Tempered City
Seth Lloyd - Quantum Computer Reality
Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits — Rose Mcdermott
Kevin Kelly - The Next 30 Digital Years
Brian Christian - Algorithms to Live By
The Inevitable - Kevin Kelly
Our Future in Algorithm Farming — Mike Kuniavsky
How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society — Kim Stanley Robinson
Walter Mischel - The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Priyamvada Natarajan - Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy
How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future - Abby Smith Rumsey
Painting the Endangered World - Isabella Kirkland
Jane Langdale - Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time — Kara Platoni
The Refugee Reality - panel discussion
Stephen Pyne - Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
The New Deal You Don't Know - Louis Hyman
The Long News: What Stories Will Matter for Centuries? - Kirk Citron
Eric Cline - 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed
Philip Tetlock - Superforecasting
Andy Weir - The Red Planet for Real
The Cocktail Crystal Ball - Paul Clarke
James Fallows - Civilization's Infrastructure
The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots - John Markoff
Saul Griffith - Infrastructure and Climate Change
Rumsey Map Collection preview event / Wayfinding & Wonder - David Rumsey
Sara Seager - Other Earths. Other Life.
The Library That Lasts - Hugh Howey
Ramez Naam - Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
The Changing Reading Brain in a Digital Culture - Maryanne Wolf
Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History - Rick Prelinger
Neil Gaiman - How Stories Last
21st Century Iron Age - James Austin
SEVENEVES at The Interval — Neal Stephenson with Stewart Brand
Beth Shapiro - How to Clone a Mammoth
Coding Ourselves/Coding Others - D. Fox Harrell
Michael Shermer - The Long Arc of Moral Progress
Envisioning Deep Time - Jonathon Keats
Paul Saffo - The Creator Economy
Hell and Good Company, the Spanish Civil War - Richard Rhodes
The Web In An Eye Blink — Jason Scott