Interintellect Tom Beakbane discusses the divisions in society and how they might be reconciled. Here are four suppositions about our collective predicament: Society is undergoing extremely rapid change resulting from technological developments. The institutions that have historically provided social cohesion and sensemaking are proving inadequate. Levels of social anxiety are increasing and society is fractionating…
Join hosts Jonathan Hillis and Alaka Halder for a special hybrid (IRL and online) salon on how to create cities that foster innovation, collaboration, and community. We will gather at Creator Cabins, an experiment in decentralized cities near Austin, TX. “Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
Welcome to the first salon of a mini-series on all things community hosted by Lucia Asanache - she will explore, with support from wonderful guests, the power and potential of communities for improving our society. Inspired by her work building global communities around tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute, Lucia is keen to share…
The MIT Media Lab is one of the most iconic and largest research centers at MIT. Despite the press it generates and the volume of talented individuals who pass through, the organization remains shrouded in mystery, perhaps intentionally so. Wes Chow (head of engineering in the lab's Center for Constructive Communication for the past 4 …
Rosano invites you to this salon discussing pathways to overcome division. — Post-salon update: read takeaways from our conversation. — What are some ways to deal with misinformation and filter bubbles? Is this phenomenon particular to our heavily politicized present? When ideologies differ, how can we find common ground? How does technology play into these…
Welcome to the second salon of a mini-series on all things community hosted by Lucia Asanache - she will explore, with support from wonderful guests, the power and potential of communities for improving our society. Inspired by her work building global communities around tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute, Lucia is keen to share…
In this salon, debut host Tasshin Fogleman explores the highs and lows of collaboration. Scientific research, political movements, films, Broadway musicals, and even the humble neighborhood block party all require collaboration. Good collaboration results something greater, more beautiful and more beneficial than any one person could create on their own. Bad collaboration results in headaches,…
Interintellect Maybe Gray and special guest Qiaochu Yuan invite you to explore the interconnections between the experience of envy and the concept of evil. Sometimes we recognize that we have encountered injustice in the world and maybe some of the occasions upon which we blame this injustice on something called "Evil" we are correct. Sometimes,…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy leads a talk about being and becoming an independent, self-directed, "feral" free agent. Has the pandemic got you rethinking your relationship with employment? Are you thinking of striking it out on your own, perhaps to start your own business? Or maybe you want to be an independent creative, or…
Interintellects Vidhika Bansal and Rosano invite you to reflect on the pivotal role technology plays in our lives, the trade-offs of its everpresence, and finding balance in the digital world. — Post-salon update: read takeaways from our conversation. — Nowadays, so many goods, services, and experiences are just a tap or click away. Need a…
