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Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to Joe Allen, author of Dark Aeon, about transhumanism and the war against humanity. Find more Keen On episodes and additional videos on Lit Hub’s YouTube Channel...

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the worlds leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to Ted Anton, author of Programmable Planet, about the brave new world of synthetic biology Find more Keen On episodes and additional videos on Lit Hubs YouTube...

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the worlds leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to Christian Madsbjerg, author of Look, about how to pay attention in a distracted world. Find more Keen On episodes and additional videos on Lit Hubs YouTube Channel...

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral?

Why America’s Blood-Sucking Lords of Silicon Valley Want to Live Forever

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to Tobias Rose-Stockwell, author of Outrage Machine, about how social media has amplified discontent and disrupted democracy—and what we can do about it. Find more...

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the worlds leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to Nishanth Injam, the author of The Best Possible Experience, about leaving India, the misery of tech work, and the subversive nature of memories. Find more Keen On...

In a cartoon by Will McPhail in the New Yorker in early 2017, a man in an aeroplane is standing up in his seat facing the other passengers, his hand raised. “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?” he asks his fellow travelers. A dozen or so passengers have their hands raised enthusiastically in the air. That image was circulated and...

I’m going to tell you a few things you already know. Every time you open your phone or your computer, your brain is walking onto a battleground. The aggressors are the architects of your digital world. Their weaponry are the apps, news feeds, and notifications in your field of view every time you look at a screen. They are attempting to capture your most scarce resource—your attention—and take it...

June 29, 2023, 11:52am The dizzying rise of AI and machine-learning in the last year, made manifest in the popular consciousness by ChatGPT, has followed a familiar pattern. Years (decades!) of specialized research grinds forward, yielding interesting but not necessarily groundbreaking results, until the moment someone realizes theres money to be made at scale. This moment, when research becomes...