In this exciting upcoming SuperSalon, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, the internet's favourite "friendly ambitious nerd" Visakan Veeraasmy, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát discuss online communities, global bonding, web3 subcultures and…
In this deeply interactive and immersive salon, Dhrupad Karwa (Dhru) will humbly attempt to unravel the mysteries of "inspiration", through the unique lens of culture and technology. Dhru is the founder and CEO of Inspo - a search engine for inspiration, designed to enrich creative thinking on any topic. Inspo is an AI-human hybrid tool…
In this salon, Dave Crouch will host a conversation about the predictions and perspectives of famed sci-fi author William Gibson, called "The Father of Cyberspace". As we move into a future that many writers would think too crazy to publish, we will talk about what kind of futures we may be headed for and how…
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 this salon, Charlie Smart will explore vulnerability and its power to connect and ground us. Vulnerability may have the tired gloss of an of-the-moment cultural currency. Yet, it is also a foundational element of being human. We walk lives of uncertainty and ambiguity. It is by inhabiting our vulnerability generously that, in the…
Join Eyal Shay for a creative pursuit of reimagining societal structures and modes of transaction. In the beginning there was trust. Bands of Homo sapiens relied on internal trust-based bonds for surviving and thriving. Then came simple trade, followed by common currency, or money. Money allowed people to leave behind the paradigm of gifting with…
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…
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.…
Can you vividly describe your own way of connecting with others online? How about a way different from your own? If you are intrigued by these questions, then this salon is for you. It is an invite to dig into the difficulties and excitements we experienced when connecting online. I am Riccardo and for a long…
Join Yatharth and Dalton for a mindful exploration of what it’s like to doom scroll, procrastinate, or otherwise feel beheld to our devices. It’s that time of year we make resolutions. We spend so much time thinking about changing our digital habits. How much time have you spent asking what it’s like? What’s it like, to be caught…
Join Isabela Granic as we consider radical social transformations developing across the globe, and how the science and practice of belonging helps us navigate the implications of those changes. Many of us have felt our most profound moments of loneliness in the last several years. Although the pandemic surely has played a major role, signs…
