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Five things we need to know about technological change
This week's episode of Modem Futura revisits Neil Postman's influential 1998 talk about understanding and navigating transformative technologies
Mar 11
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Andrew Maynard
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The "hard" concept of care in technology innovation
Does a lack of care in how we develop and use new technologies risk turning us and our creations into "monsters?"
Mar 9
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Andrew Maynard
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Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This week's episode of Modem Futura explores the changing relationship between photographer and photograph as AI transforms the art of image making
Mar 4
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Andrew Maynard
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AI and the lure of permissionless innovation
What could possibly go wrong as we prize the guardrails of responsibility off artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies?
Mar 2
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Andrew Maynard
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February 2025
This is NOT a podcast about AI
This week on Modem Futura Sean and I try desperately hard not to talk about AI, and end up chatting about tech, story telling, sci-fi, and the art of…
Feb 25
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Andrew Maynard
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An AI model that can decode and design living organisms
The Arc Institute's new EVO 2 model does for DNA what ChatGPT did for words
Feb 23
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Andrew Maynard
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AI: The Medium is the "Massage?"
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, and other highlights from this week's episode of Modem Futura
Feb 18
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Andrew Maynard
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AI: The Medium is the "Massage?"
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The Artisanal Intellectual in the Age of AI
How is advanced artificial intelligence forcing a rethink of the value of human intellectual labor?
Feb 16
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Andrew Maynard
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The Artisanal Intellectual in the Age of AI
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AI humility, artisanal intellectuals, and Reid Hoffman's Superagency
Some of the highlights in this week's episode of Modem Futura
Feb 11
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Andrew Maynard
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Can AI write your PhD dissertation for you?
I spent four days trying to get OpenAI's new tool Deep Research to research and write a complete dissertation. This is what I discovered.
Feb 9
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Andrew Maynard
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Does OpenAI's Deep Research signal the end of human-only scholarship?
Having got my hands on Sam Altman's latest AI offering yesterday, I'm beginning to wonder when research and scholarship that isn't augmented by AI will…
Feb 4
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Andrew Maynard
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Does OpenAI's Deep Research signal the end of human-only scholarship?
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AI turned my class into a song — and I can’t stop listening
One of my student used ChatGPT and Suno to create a musical ode to my Pizza and a Slice of Future class, and it’s awesome!
Feb 2
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Jacob Seipert
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AI turned my class into a song — and I can’t stop listening
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