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From Bubble to Mainstream: What Progress Means for Different People and Communities

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Progress thinkers Jason Crawford and Benedict Macon-Cooney lead a wide-ranging discussion on the many ways individuals and communities can build a better future. Come and bring your questions, stories and projects! A progress studies movement is calling upon us to understand the history of technological and scientific breakthroughs and how to keep the many resulting improvements sustainable.…

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What Information Wants, Chapter 7: Our Shifting Minds And Values

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Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. This is the 8th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…

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Connecting The Idea Dots

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In this Salon, Rohit Krishnan and Samuel Arbesman lead a discussion around how to better recombine ideas and encourage a broader cross-pollination across the landscape of humanity's knowledge. It seems a common worry that innovation is faltering. There are many explanations, from the declining fruits of knowledge, to ossification in our structures, to lack of…

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What Information Wants, Chapter 8: Internet Virals Run Amok

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Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. This is the 9th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…

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What Information Wants, Chapter 10: Knowledge On The Internet

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Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. This is the 11th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…

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Sensemaking: Navigating the Age of Complexity

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Andrew is an entrepreneur and researcher. He is a co-founder of Collective, an AI-powered solution for knowledge work and collective sensemaking. He has more than 11 years of experience in commercial research, knowledge management, and tools for thought. In this lecture, we will be exploring the concept of sensemaking, which is the process of understanding…

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Hoarding in the Digital Age

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How many tabs do you have open right now? How many unread emails or drafts of your latest document? Join Columbia Professor and professional tab hoarder Annie Pfeifer to explore hoarding and clutterphobia as timely afflictions of the information age. The psychologists Randy Frost and Gail Steketee define hoarding through three characteristics: The failure to discard a…

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Quizbowl: A New Kind of Trivia

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Trivia always has potential, but it's tricky to get right. Often, the idea of trivia is more fun than trivia itself. For starters, it's hard to make trivia feel fair. The winner is often decided by arbitrary factors, like the question topics preferred by the host or the fastest player at the buzzer. But even…

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Interintellect 101: Public Minds Fellowship Twitter Spaces

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Join us for “Interintellect 101: Public Minds Fellowship”! We will be holding this Twitter space for anyone and everyone (the general public, Interintellect hosts, or Intellect community members) to learn more about the Interintellect Public Minds Fellowship and ask questions. Interintellect team members Crystal Duan and Nicky Buttigieg will be joined by some of the…

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Choose Your Own Reality with Renee diResta and Jonathan Askonas

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In this SuperSalon, Renée diResta and Jonathan Askonas—both experts in (mis)information in our digital age—will join researcher Nastasia Griffioen to discuss questions like as "What does 'reality' mean nowadays?" and "Can everyone choose their own?" Following years of discussion of disinformation, advances in AI technology can make splits in perceived reality wider—with it growing faster and…

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