How can we inspire more progress in science and technology? Industrial fiction is one way to imagine our way into that reality. This writing workshop is for anyone who wants to hone their skills in telling stories about and around technical subject matter. Join Liz Voeller and Chelsea Slaven-Davis in this engaging three-part series. NOTE:…
Join debut host Tom Fish (cartographer and author of FishEye) on a journey into how maps are not as reliable as you think they are. We use maps every day to find our way, understand the news, and figure out where Zanzabar is (East Africa; part of Tanzania). Through regular usage, we put our trust in…
Interintellect host and founder/CEO of re-collect Alice Albrecht hosts a members-only workshop discussing how she and her team are using AI to augment human memory and creativity, featuring a demo of the re-collect product. We’ve reached a point of information overload. We spend hours saving, structuring, and tagging what we consume but struggle to find…
Join Isabela Granic – parent of two 16-year old boys and developmental psychologist studying tech and wellbeing – as we consider the marvelous and mysterious world of parenting in our digital age. In this third salon in the Our Hybrid Lives series, we'll focus on both millenia-old and completely novel parenting challenges that are top-of-mind…
Joining our community and friends, author Eliot Peper discusses the power of sci-fi and speculative fiction with Mariel Rošić. Eliot Peper is a novelist based in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Veil, Breach, Borderless, Bandwidth, Cumulus, Neon Fever Dream, Exit Strategy, Power Play, and Version 1.0, and his books have earned praise from the New York Times…
Economist and author Erik Brynjolfsson joins host Jason Crawford and the Interintellect community for a SuperSalon on the economics of automation, productivity, and jobs. How has digital technology driven the reinvention of our lives and our economy, and what will the full impact of these technologies be? What are the opportunities and challenges inherent in technologies such as…
JUST STARTING A NEW CAREER? ENJOY THIS SPECIAL TICKET DISCOUNT - ALL PROCEEDS TO BE DONATED TO RemoteUkraine, helping refugees find employment online. This SuperSalon is part of a ten-part series called The Future Of, launched in partnership with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. What does "WFH" mean for mothers? How can a…
In this SuperSalon, AI & technology safety expert Irene Solaiman (ex-OpenAI, currently at Hugging Face) will spark discussion around AI & ethics, values and natural language processing, and fairness and algorithms. The SuperSalon is hosted by ii member and digital wellbeing researcher Nastasia Griffoen (GEMH Lab | University of Twente) together with AI artist and…
Join founder Rob Paul to discuss alternatives to current audiobooks and the journey to his product, Audrey. Come learn how Audrey is making audiobooks better and how you can get paid to guide listeners through books you know and love. For anyone interested in audiobooks from either the recording or listening end, Rob Paul, the founder,…
Join Ani Patel, a neuroscientist whose work focuses on music cognition, music-language relations, rhythmic processing, and cross-species studies of music cognition. His book, Music, Language, and the Brain, challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Hosts of the Words and Sounds series will lead a discussion and Q&A with Dr. Patel,…
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…
Join writer and cultural critic Moira Weigel as we explore the ideas of Adorno, Horkheimer, and Habermas whose less-discussed concepts seem to nevertheless greatly influence important events in today's technology and politics, and can be keys to understanding our world and its direction. Hosted by Interintellect founder Anna Gát. In recent years, while the scenes of tech-intellectualism were busy reading…
