In this Interintellect Salon, host Dominic Duffin will lead a discussion of both the vision of where we imagine blockchain technology could take us and the practical usability of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Vision: Peer-to-peer trading in financial markets; Crowdfunding to buy a copy of the US Constitution; Connecting multiplayer game worlds to the real economy;…
In his salon, David White will engage in a discussion of nanotechnology foundations, applications, and impact on your life. Come to learn and discuss what nanotechnology means, how it can make your life better, and why it is taking so long to get here. Nanotechnology has the promise to make all of our lives immeasurably…
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…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. 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. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world…
Hosts Max Beverton-Palmer and Matt Nguyen are from the Internet Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Max’s work focuses on social media, online regulation, and AI governance and ethics. Matt’s work focuses on digital rights, platform governance, and the future of the public sphere. In this salon, they will be discussing…
Join Donald Frederick, Christophe Porot, and Douglas Casson for a thought-provoking conversation on society and tech. In the movie Incredibles 2 there is a villain called the screen slaver who enslaves people to their screens. But how far away is this from modern reality and the role of the screen in our current lives? Freedom…
Roman Skorzus is a policy lead in the Tech for Development Policy Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He leads the development of actionable policies and strategies to harness the transformative opportunities of tech for developing and emerging economies. This salon is part of a new ten-part series called The Future Of…
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…
Karen Hooper and Hermione Dace are Policy Lead and Senior Policy Analyst respectively in the Science and Innovation Unit at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Their work focuses on the future of food, alternative proteins, and technology development in Asia. This salon is part of a new ten-part series called The Future Of…
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…
Join Isabela Granic and her co-host, Amir Hajizamani as we consider radical economic and social transformations developing across the globe, and their impact on how we think about, show up for, and re-design, our work-lives. In this second salon in the Our Hybrid Lives series, we'll focus on how workplaces across corporate, academia, creative, tech,…
How do festivals shape generations? During this ii salon, Rachel Haywire will go over the past, present, and future of festivals while discussing their unique role in influencing the growth of society. Festivals are a vibe shift. They represent a changing of the guards, in which a group of collaborators take the center stage and…
