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Bill Baue |
Bill Baue is co-director of Sea Change Media and co-host and producer of Sea Change Radio.
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism | 04/16/13
Evgeny Morozov
Very soon, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make sophisticated interventions in everyday life. Technology will create incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will this affect society, once political and moral dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?
Global Ethics Corner: Who Benefits Most From Wearable Computers? | 03/25/13
Apple and Google will, reportedly, both soon be selling computers that you can wear. But will the trove of details that these devices will be able to collect be an invasion of privacy? Do advertisers stand to gain more from this technology than consumers?
Thought Leader: Tariq Ramadan | 03/12/13
Tariq Ramadan,
Devin T. Stewart
"Every tradition, every religion, every culture or civilization might have a specific path and we join and we meet at the summit. Global ethics is what we get at the summit, but we have to accept that there are different routes and we are all coming from a specific route and we will find ourselves sharing so many values with others."
Thought Leader: Tomas Sedlacek | 03/08/13
Tomas Sedlacek,
Devin T. Stewart,
Anna Kiefer
"To use the New Testament sort of logic, who is my neighbor? Today that extends not only to your family or your literal neighbors. We know much more about the situations of poor people in China or India or Africa, and so the scope of ethical responsibility today has grown to some global measures."
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State | 03/08/13
William H. Janeway
Economic growth is driven by successive processes of trial and error: research and invention and then experiments in exploiting the new economic space opened by innovation. Today, however, with the state frozen as an economic actor and access to public equity markets only open to a minority, the innovation economy is stalled. Warburg Pincus's William Janeway discusses how to get this vital economic sector moving again.
Thought Leader: Rachel Kleinfeld | 03/01/13
Rachel Kleinfeld,
Devin T. Stewart,
Anna Kiefer
"We're in an age where every person can have access to global information. If they have access to a cell phone, which most of the world now has access to, they can be a voice for awareness, for ethicality within their community and across the globe."
Thought Leader: E. O. Wilson | 02/28/13
E. O. Wilson,
Devin T. Stewart,
Anna Kiefer
"A global ethic, which is absolutely necessary to meet the destructive forces that our intellectual and technological powers have given us to meet and solve the big problems that are promoted by it, depends upon a much more thorough knowledge of what we are."
Thought Leader: Srdja Popovic | 02/25/13
Srdja Popovic,
Devin T. Stewart,
Anna Kiefer
"There are two kinds of countries in this world, the good ones and the bad ones. The good ones I count as the countries where the governments are afraid of their people. The bad ones I count as the countries where people are afraid of their governments."
Thought Leader: Ethan Zuckerman | 02/22/13
Ethan Zuckerman,
Devin T. Stewart,
Anna Kiefer
"I'd really like to see us get globalization right. For me, getting globalization right wouldn't mean that we have stuff from every corner of the world, but would mean that we have people and ideas and opportunities and solutions from every corner of the world."
Global Ethics Corner: Should Scholarly Research Be Free For All? | 01/22/13
Facing prosecution for illegally downloading millions of academic articles, Internet activist Aaron Swartz recently committed suicide. Should Swartz have been facing jail time? Should scholarly research be available for free?
Thought Leader: Gillian Tett | 01/14/13
Gillian Tett,
Devin T. Stewart,
Anna Kiefer
"On the most basic level, a global ethic should be a recognition that we simply cannot afford to ignore our neighbors, even if they don't appear to immediately have much connectivity to us."
Thought Leader: Rebecca MacKinnon | 01/14/13
Rebecca MacKinnon,
Devin T. Stewart,
Anna Kiefer
"Even dictatorships go to great lengths to create these fake elections to prove to the world that they have consent of the governed. It's sort of an organizing principle of the nation-state."
Ethics Matter: Srdja Popovic on Creating Successful Nonviolent Movements | 12/11/12
Srdja Popovic,
Marlene Spoerri
Successful nonviolent movements need three things: the cool factor, memorable branding, and humor, says Popovic. He cofounded the Serbian youth movement Otpor!, which played a major role in toppling Milosevic, and his work training activists in Egypt and Tunisia is widely credited for inspiring Arab Spring protesters.
The Digital Revolution and the Role of Newspapers in Civic Life | 11/28/12
Harlan Spector,
Rachel Dissell,
Ken Doctor,
Dan Bobkoff
Newspapers have long straddled an awkward line between public service and profit. Now those values are in conflict. The internet has upended the industry and profits are way down. But is the web a good substitute? What happens when a city loses its daily paper?
The Digital Revolution and the Role of Newspapers in Civic Life | 11/27/12
Harlan Spector,
Rachel Dissell,
Ken Doctor,
Dan Bobkoff
Newspapers have long straddled an awkward line between public service and profit. Now those values are in conflict. The internet has upended the industry and profits are way down. But is the web a good substitute? What happens when a city loses its daily paper?
Ethics Matter: Dan Ariely on the Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions | 11/20/12
Dan Ariely,
Marlene Spoerri
Why do smart people cheat? Why do we eat more than we should or text while driving? In this funny and insightful talk, behavioral economist Dan Ariely explores the hidden factors that shape our most puzzling decisions and shows how emotions, peer pressure, and sheer irrationalism dictate our behavior.
Innovation and Leadership in 21st Century Media | 11/16/12
Doug Mitchell
So you want to be an innovator and a leader: How can you make your internship/job application stand out? How can you use social media to develop your own leadership skills and to mentor others? Get some tips and out-of-the-box ideas from this hands-on discussion with Doug Mitchell.
The Ethics of "Acqui-hires" | 10/02/12
John Coyle,
Gabor Cselle,
Dan Bobkoff
The practice of "acqui-hiring," a larger company buying a smaller one solely to poach its talent, is becoming more common. Is this ethical? Does it harm anyone, or is it a win-win? Here's Gabor Cselle, who was acqui-hired by Google and John Coyle, who co-authored an academic paper on this phenomenon.
The Ethics of "Acqui-hires" | 09/28/12
John Coyle,
Gabor Cselle,
Dan Bobkoff
The practice of "acqui-hiring," a larger company buying a smaller one solely to poach its talent, is becoming more common. Is this ethical? Does it harm anyone, or is it a win-win? Here's Gabor Cselle, who was acqui-hired by Google and John Coyle, who co-authored an academic paper on this phenomenon.
