The Conversation
A collaborative conversation about the future between some of America's greatest thinkers and you. www.findtheconversation.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2016
The Conversation - 47 - Oliver Porter
Oliver Porter designs and implements partnerships between municipalities and corporations, allowing cities to privatize virtually all of their functions. Since his central role in incorporating Sandy…
00:53:57 |
Wed 03 Apr 2013
The Conversation - 46 - Mark Mykleby
Col. Mark "Puck" Mykleby is a former marine and co-author (along with Capt. Wayne Porter) of A National Strategic Narrative for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, a document that encouraged broadening the…
00:52:20 |
Thu 21 Mar 2013
The Conversation - 45 - James Bamford
James Bamford is an author and journalist who has written extensively about the National Security Agency. His books include The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow Factory. He has also pro…
00:45:53 |
Fri 08 Mar 2013
The Conversation - 44 - John Seager
John Seager is the President of Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. Since its founding in 1968, Population Connection has been America's largest grassroots organization dedicated …
00:49:35 |
Wed 27 Feb 2013
The Conversation - 43 - Roberta Francis
Roberta Francis has been advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment for over thirty years, chairs the ERA Taskforce for the National Council of Women's Organizations and administers equalrightsamendme…
00:32:46 |
Thu 21 Feb 2013
The Conversation - 42 - Gary Francione
Gary L. Francione is an animal rights activist, proponent of veganism, Professor of Law and Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers. Previously he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, worked as…
00:53:04 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
The Conversation - 41 - John Fullerton
John Fullerton is the founder of the Capital Institute, a group dedicated to the modest task of rethinking the future of finance. Prior to his work at the Capital Institute, he was the Managing Direc…
00:49:56 |
Sun 27 Jan 2013
The Conversation - 40 - Mary Mattingly
Mary Mattingly is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. We learned about her through the Flockhouse Project and traced back to discover the Waterpod and her earlier work. Mary’s art explores the env…
00:35:39 |
Fri 18 Jan 2013
The Conversation - 39 - Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman is a designer, author of over 80 books, and founder of several conferences including TED, WWW, and EG. Presently, he is working on Prophesy2025, a conference about the near future…
00:45:58 |
Thu 10 Jan 2013
The Conversation - 38 - Alexa Clay
Alexa Clay is an author, economic historian, and director of thought leadership at Ashoka Changemakers. She is co-author of The Misfit Economy, a forthcoming book that looks for economic innovation i…
00:50:52 |
Tue 01 Jan 2013
The Conversation - 37 - David Keith
From The Conversation's inception, geoengineering—the deliberate manipulation of the climate through technology—has been high on my list of subjects to include in the series. To address the issue, I …
00:51:41 |
Fri 21 Dec 2012
The Conversation - 36 - Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is the Director of MIT's Center for Civic Media, a former fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, and co-founder of Global Voices, a hub of international news written by bloggers. We spok…
00:59:24 |
Fri 14 Dec 2012
The Conversation - 35 - Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins directs the Institute of Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He has also co-founder of United for a Fair Economy and Wealth for the Common Good, a network of wealt…
00:44:43 |
Thu 06 Dec 2012
The Conversation - 34 - Douglas Rushkoff
Among other things, Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, author, and documentarian. His books include Life, Inc. and Program or be Programmed, while his documentaries include Frontline's The Merchan…
Mon 19 Nov 2012
The Conversation - 33 - Priscilla Grim
Priscilla Grim is one of Occupy Wall Street's organizers, co-founder of the website We Are the 99 Percent, and co-editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal.
We talk about her politicization, the cu…
00:43:14 |
Sat 10 Nov 2012
The Conversation - 32 - The Conversation and the Election
Micah and I have been talking about a new interstitial episode for several weeks but, with the election last night, we decided to pick up our microphones and talk about the relationship between the p…
00:16:38 |
Wed 07 Nov 2012
The Conversation - 31 - Claire Evans
Claire Evans is half of YACHT, a "band, business, and belief system" started by Jona Bechtolt in 2002. In addition to her musical/artistic adventures, she's also a writer and regular science blogger.…
00:38:23 |
Tue 30 Oct 2012
The Conversation - 30 - Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. is the Director for the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo and the Project Coordinator for the Perry Choice Neighborhood Initiative. His work has focuse…
00:47:34 |
Mon 22 Oct 2012
The Conversation - 29 - Lawrence Torcello
Dr. Lawrence Torcello is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Micah and I learned about him through his article "Is The State Endorsement of Any Marriage Jus…
00:43:01 |
Tue 16 Oct 2012
The Conversation - 28 - Tim Cannon
Tim Cannon is a co-founder of Grindhouse Wetware, a group of open-source biohackers in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. What does that sentence mean, you ask? Biohacking is the process of augmenting the huma…
00:47:59 |
Wed 03 Oct 2012
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