DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facin...
Apr 11, 2024•14 min
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical pollution by finding safer and more sustainable alternatives to the harmful petrochemicals commonly found in everyday products. They discuss decarbonising the chemical industry and building the circular bioeconomy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Apr 24, 2023•44 min
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the economy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 17, 2023•45 min
Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Arnavaz Schatten, director of sustainability at the Berlin-based vertical farming firm InFarm dicuss how vertical farms can massively reduce the environmental impact of our food system. "What could possibly work on Mars could be hugely beneficial on Earth today. We don’t n...
Apr 11, 2023•37 min
To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively? In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Alyssa Gilbert, the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Alyssa builds real-world impact by connecting relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Apr 03, 2023•37 min
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. They discuss how Evelina is working to find new ways to deploy capital in ways that will have outsize impact for the climate and enable us to transition to net zero effectively. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org...
Mar 27, 2023•41 min
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature. It is estimated that UK households throw away a staggering 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year, averaging 66 items per household per week. In this episode, Insiya discusses how her interdisciplinary team is innovating in material science in order to be able to scale products that afte...
Mar 20, 2023•34 min
In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we’re at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has parallels in the explosive growth of the internet of the past twenty years. They also touch on how we're going to get to net zero, the challenges of getting renewable energy onto complex grids, EV infrastructure, national security and more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-c...
Mar 13, 2023•40 min
In our very first episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Gaia Vince, author of the groundbreaking work Adventures In The Anthropocene for which she travelled to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are altering the planet forever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 06, 2023•38 min
Connecting the world online has brought enormous benefits but it has also digitised the way in which harmful things can happen. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Mikko Hyppönen, Author of 'If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable', originator of the Hyppönen law and Chief Research Officer at WithSecure to discuss how we can counter the growing onslaught of toxic code thats coursing through the internet looking for vulnerabilities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Dec 15, 2022•30 min
AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone alongside solving some of the worlds most vexing problems. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 22, 2022•32 min
In this episode of Foresight, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied entrepreneurs and investors, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) and his co-founder of the media company behind Masters of Scale, June Cohen join Foresight to share the different strategies entrepreneurs can use to drive a companies growth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 06, 2022•36 min
In this episode, Greg is joined by renowned physicist and CEO of PsiQuantum, Jeremy O’Brien to talk about quantum computing; to understand the Implications of it, the potential applications from drug discovery to the geopolitical impact and explore how the field will develop over the coming years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 17, 2022•41 min
Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, shares how his latest piece, “Human One,” will continue to update over time—and what that means for how digital art will be viewed in the future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 10, 2021•30 min
In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Parag Khanna, global strategy advisor and author of MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us explore the new age of mass migration and the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 25, 2021•36 min
In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center explore the rapid growth of big technology and solutions for governments to consider as they look to regulate big technology. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 28, 2021•30 min
In this episode, we explore how AI is currently perceived and the wider societal impacts of AI that are changing how power is concentrated across the world. Even though AI infiltrates many aspects of our lives from security, banking and retail through to climate change and politics, most people’s vision of AI is that it’s abstract and immaterial. In this podcast, we’ll discuss how AI is made in a wider sense - the environmental costs, the labour processes and the way that it classifies and shape...
Aug 26, 2021•32 min
In this episode, Rebecca Henderson, Author of Reimagining Capitalism speaks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief, Greg Williams to discuss how we can develop models that deliver strong economic growth that ensures prosperity and wellbeing for human beings while also protecting and nurturing the planet. “We need to think of ourselves as an integrated world where we can’t escape. We have a joint destiny. Hopefully the pandemic will begin to make us think about global cooperation in a different way.” - Rebec...
Jul 29, 2021•37 min
In a digital world, how do we build empathy into the algorithms that run our lives? WIRED UK's editor, Greg Williams sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of 'Girl Decoded' to discuss how to bring emotional intelligence to technology during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of...
Jul 22, 2021•25 min
Noreena Hertz, who is a renowned economist and author of The Lonely Century (one of WIRED’s picks for the best books of 2020) explores why this is the lonely century, how we got here and what each of us can do to help reduce loneliness for ourselves and our communities. "With one in five adults, saying that they felt lonely often or all of the time, with one in five millennials saying that they didn't have a single friend at all and with 40% of office workers, saying that they felt lonely at wor...
Jun 24, 2021•30 min
In this episode, Carissa Véliz, associate professor in philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University explores how, in a constantly shifting digital era, we can reclaim our privacy and ensure that data brokers, tech giants and governments collect and use data in ways that consumers approve and are transparent. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and pr...
Jun 17, 2021•29 min
In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winner, writer and journalist, Lawrence Wright reveals the oversights and errors that impacted the response the US had to COVID-19, sharing the wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain the virus. His latest book, “The Plague Year” is his testament to the year of COVID-19 in America. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of s...
Jun 10, 2021•36 min
WIRED editor Greg Williams and independent policy advisor and bestselling author, Simon Anholt investigate how we can defeat global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, poverty, migration and extremism with 'The Good Country Equation' - his formula for empowering governments and future generations to collaborate. Designed as an extension of WIRED’s long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and pr...
May 27, 2021•31 min
What new strategies are retailers adopting to stand out online and retain customers during an e-commerce boom that has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic? Shopify's head of EMEA, Shimona Mehta sat down with WIRED editor-in-chief Greg Williams to share how brands are standing out in a crowded e-commerce space. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
May 20, 2021•28 min
Sana Khareghani, head of the UK government's Office for Artificial Intelligence, talks to WIRED editor Greg Williams to explore the UK government's AI strategy and the role AI will play in helping rebuild the post-Covid economy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
May 13, 2021•31 min
Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI joins Greg Williams in looking ahead to 2025 and explore future scenarios for business, consumers and society in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
May 05, 2021•33 min
Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, joins Greg Williams to discuss how AI can impact scientific research, building multidisciplinary teams – and how to combat algorithmic bias Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 05, 2021•23 min
Herman Narula, CEO and co-founder of Improbable, joins Greg Williams to explore the dynamics of social connection forged through virtual worlds – and how Covid-19 has impacted these relationships Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 05, 2021•25 min
Richard Davies, economist and author of Extreme Economies joins Greg Williams to share his insight of extreme economies to better understand the long-term impact of Covid-19 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 28, 2021•33 min
Greg Williams and Nina Schick explore the rise of fake news and the disturbingly outsized impact this type of misinformation has on how we think and behave Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 13, 2020•26 min
