Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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Zack Lynch - The Neuro Revolution
Moira interviews Zack Lynch, co-author of the Neuro Revolution. The book reviews how history has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically tra …
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Brian Ellin, Doug Kaye - RPX and Identity Systems
Brian Ellin from JanRain and Doug Kaye of the Conversations Network discuss some of the technical issues related to implementing OpenID and other identity systems. Doug first talks about some of the problems he experienced when trying to add OpenID to SpokenWord.org and how he was able to solve issu …
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Nat Torkington - Ignite Oscon
What would you talk about if you had only 5 minutes? This group of talks from the first Ignite event at the OReilly Open Source Convention covers an eclectic range of topics, from hacking the Amazon Kindle to DIY wheelchair hacks to repairing a rigged election.
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John Hagel - Shift Index Report 2009
Moira speaks woth John Hagel about the long term trends in technology and the economy. Hagel is Co-chair of Deloittes Center for the Edge and the lead author of the Shift Index Report 2009: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change.
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Dr. Belinda Clarke - Healthy Aging
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Belinda Clarke, Life Science Manager of the East of England Development Agency. She discusses the issues of biotech and healthy aging.
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Silona Bonewald - Data Ownership
Silona Bonewald discusses the issue of data and how it can be used and shared. Beginning with how it is used or misused by banks, she reviews the problems of transparent vs. accessible data and talks about how defining the terms is likely part of the problem. She also discusses the concepts behind o …
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Jonathan Christensen - Codec Evolution and Industry Proposal
Jonathan Christensen is Skypes General Manager for Video and Audio. Listen in as he discusses the history of audio compression, the human voice and Skypes new audio codec to be released for free. Achieving higher quality sound at a more efficient rate included partnership with hardware and software …
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Silona Bonewald - Citability.org
Silona Bonewald wishes that every government website would offer stable permalinks for all published documents. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, she describes her proposal for making that wish come true.
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Douglas Rushkoff - Life Inc.
Moira speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the role that corporations have started to play in every aspect of our lives.
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Dr. Malcolm Devine - Robust Plants
Moira interviews Dr. Malcome Devine of Performance Plants, a Canadian firm that is tinkering with plants to make them more robust.
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Episode 65 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss lessons from a year of building Stack Overflow, the mysteries of COBOL, some YSlow website optimizations, and magic numbers.
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Stephen Elop - A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly
For those who thought Microsoft had become a sleeping giant resting on the laurels of its popular Office franchise, Stephen Elop has news for you. In this frank discussion with Tim OReilly, Elop discusses Microsofts intention to embrace interoperability and apply the results to its business model.
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Mark Roettgering - The Economics of Mobility: The Communications Value-System at the Dawn of a New …
Is the traditional economic structure of the wireless communications space finally coming to an end? In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Mark Roettgering, Lead Director of Corporate Strategy at T-Mobile examines the fundamental sources of value creation in the mobile valu …
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Simon Perkins - HTTPWatch
HTTPWatch is a commercial add-in for Internet Explorer that provides detailed statistics on HTTP traffic. In this presentation from the 2008 Velocity conference, Simon Perkins of Simtec Limited demos HTTPWatch and outlines its key features, including the ability to see the effect of local caching a …
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Sarah Dunant - Sacred Hearts
Moira speaks with Sarah Dunant, the bestselling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan. Her new novel, Sacred Hearts, takes place in a 16th century Italian convent. The story helps to give a view of the medical science and technology of the day.
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Dr. Andrew Balber, Dr. Nicholas Goeders - Biotech Advances
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Andrew Balber, Chief Scientific Officer of Aldagen about the concept of banking mature stems cells, as well as LSU professor Dr. Nicholas Goeders about a new approach to treating addictions.
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Steve Portigal - "We did all this research ... now what?"
User research often catalogs findings and implications, but stops short of generating specific design improvements. Designers increasingly involved with contextual research may find themselves holding onto a trove of raw data but with little awareness of how to turn it into design. Steve Portigal i …
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Episode 64 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss the disappointment of Google AdWords, the difference in skillset between programmers and testers, and the value of standards groups to working programmers.
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Brandon Martin-Anderson - Maps in Four Dimensions
One drawback of most maps is that they only show two dimensions. In this program from Where 2.0, Brandon Martin-Anderson discusses examples of maps which attempt to depict events in three or four dimensions.
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Cathy Marshall - Personal Digital Management
Cathy Marshall is fascinated by how people manage, and avoid managing, their digital stuff. In this conversation with host Jon Udell she discusses her research on the efficacy of Flickr tags for image retrieval, and explains why were rediscovering the virtues of loss and forgetting.
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
