At Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center, the “Open to Debate” podcast convened an audience of students, journalists, and policy thinkers to dissect one of the defining questions of our era: Should the U.S. government break up Big Tech?
On stage were
Imagine a world where wireless connectivity isn’t controlled by giant corporations but powered by everyday people, and where your phone connects to a network built by community driven hotspots rather than traditional towers. That’s the bold vision of Helium
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Robert Bench, CEO and Cofounder of Radius Technology Systems, brought a bold and nuanced vision of the future to EmTechMIT, sparking the kind of dialogue that strikes at the core of technological progress: how do we truly
For nearly three decades, a ghost has haunted the infrastructure of the World Wide Web. Buried deep within the hyper-text transfer protocol, the very language browsers and servers use to speak to one another, sat a reserved, unused status code.
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: In recent years, enterprise R&D in biotechnology has been fundamentally reshaped by the rise of artificial intelligence. At EmTechMIT, Chief Business & Legal Officer Sarah Korman of Isomorphic Labs (ISO), the Alphabet-backed spinout from Google’s DeepMind, offered
Recently, gold hit multiple all-time highs in its valuation. Gold prices have risen recently due to a combination of factors, including geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and strong demand from central banks and individual investors.
But now…Gold has a new vehicle
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: The scientific method, observation, hypothesis, and experiment, has fueled centuries of breakthroughs, but Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli believes it’s time to leave trial-and-error behind. At EmTechMIT, the MIT professor and cofounder of Lila Sciences cast a vision for “scientific
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: At the MIT Media Lab, few voices blend data science, social theory, and design for human agency as fluently as Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland. His talk at EmTechMIT, titled “The Power of Choice,” was not about the
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a mathematician, robo-engineer, and blockchain pioneer walk into a room, today’s guest is the punchline. Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, brings a background spanning competitive coding, Wall Street, and even self-driving cars to the
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Camille Carlton began with a chilling observation: “Many people find it easy and some satisfying to engage in ongoing relationships with AI. This development has ramifications for our psychological and social health that we’re just beginning to
