Synthetic psychedelics? Magnetic brain stimulation? How will technology's ability to measure, augment, or even radically alter our brains shape the future of spirituality? Join Lauren from the Science and Innovation unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, based in San Francisco. Her work focuses on mobility, urban agtech, crypto, and precision mental health. She…
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 4th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…
Do you remember library card catalogs? What if our entire world were represented in library card catalogs? Join librarian Jay L. Colbert to discuss the role metadata plays in our…
Don't Trust Your Gut is the self-help book we need. Join Siri Srinivas for a SuperSalon with economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times bestselling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. In Don’t Trust…
Join Kyla Scanlon in her this first episode of Obsessions, a new monthly sequence of rotating topics. In this episode, we will focus on the Federal Reserve! The Federal Reserve has become one of the most powerful entities in the world since their creation in the early 1900s. Founded on the basis of normalizing market…
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 5th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join…
You know the saying "never judge a book by its cover?" What would happen if we ignored that advice? Join librarian Jay L. Colbert in a discussion about our aesthetic and sensual relationships with information. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only…
Join Scott Davies for a salon on cybernetics from its foundations to present. Cybernetics is, according to one of its pioneers, Norbert Wiener, concerned with “Control and communication in the…
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 6th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join…
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 7th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…
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.…
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…
