Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, believes we should rethink the world using today’s technology. “Let’s stop optimizing for the short-term. Let’s start optimizing for the long-term, and think about how to make the society we want,” O’Reilly says.
At the second edition of our new series What's Now: San Francisco, WIRED Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly quizzed the crowd about artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and data tracking.
Zipcar Co-Founder Robin Chase believes the status quo is broken, and that sharing economy platforms—which she refers to as “peers inc”—can help rebuild a new status quo. Chase devised the “peers inc” terminology because of the mutual importance of what she sees as two halves of the sharing economy equation:...
Solving the problem of climate change—reducing greenhouse gas emissions, making renewable energy more affordable and accessible, aiding communities affected by a destabilized climate—may seem like a job for scientists and engineers, not for humanists.
We're excited to announce the launch of our new audio podcast! The entirety of our foreign policy series, humanities interviews and Uncharted interviews to date have been converted into audio podcasts (and can of course still be viewed as videos).
They say a picture is worth 1000 words, so we decided an animated video is worth about 1,000,000. We could tell you what we do, but we think watching it is twice the fun.
A huge thank you to Brad DeLong for providing us with the transcript and citations for his conversation with Peter Leyden about robotics and economic disruption, which took place on October 16, 2015 at Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas.
Our nuclear landscape may be more dangerous today than it was during the Cold War. Valerie Plame, a former covert CIA Operations Officer who specialized in nuclear weapons proliferation, argues that Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) kept the world safe during the Cold War.
Can we use 21st century technology to improve nuclear policy and keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists? And if so, how do we balance this technology with human decision-making and capacity for empathy?
In a keynote speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, Reinvent Founder Peter Leyden made his case for San Francisco as the epicenter of 21st-century reinvention.