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.
Cinema has largely remained the same for 120 years, but the landscape is changing. As audiences, we're learning how to find and articulate what it is that we want, instead of learning how to like what we are given. Studios are discovering that it's no longer feasible to treat audiences...
Hadi Partovi, the co-founder of Code.org and the anchor for our “Reinvent Digital Education” online roundtable, thinks access to learning computer science is one of the great civil rights issues of our time, along with providing a comprehensive education that keeps up with the high tech world developing around us....
The real-time dissection of a complex problem, with the goal of developing and fine-tuning actionable solutions, promotes collaborative back-and-forth among participants, rather than a space where individuals recite pre-rehearsed sound bites.