Every board member wants generative and agentic AI wired into enterprise products, but few are asking what happens to the plumbing underneath. In this episode, we dive into Cisco’s landmark AgenticOps study—surveying 1,000 enterprise IT and NetOps leaders—to uncover the
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Is Unlimited Energy Around the Corner? Creating Fusion in the Laboratory
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Energy is the fundamental currency of human civilization. For centuries, access to energy has shaped geopolitical alliances, driven territorial conflicts, and dictated the economic wealth of nations. But what happens when
The Algorithmic Financial Advisor: Prompt Gaps, Inadvertent Gender Bias, and the Future of Wealth
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Can an artificial intelligence chatbot give sound financial planning advice? It sounds like a straightforward question, but as consumer use of conversational models explodes, the economic reality is unfolding at blinding
Google’s Take on the Next Frontier of Compute
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. For all the cultural excitement surrounding generative text and conversational chatbots, modern language models remain fundamentally tethered to human prose. They predict the next token based on things humans have already
The Exponential Trap: Why Your Brain Can’t See What AI Does Next
For years, whether recording episodes in the studio, drafting analyses on emerging tech, or speaking to audiences across the globe, I have chased the inflection points where innovation collides with human reality. Yet sitting here, microphone around my head, looking
Merging Mind and Machines: Bionics, Neural Nanotech, and the Science of Flourishing
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. This talk was mind altering. For four decades, the MIT Media Lab has served as an intellectual sanctuary for wild ideas, unconventional prototypes, and iconoclastic thinkers who refuse to fit into
The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Taking the stage for the session titled Rethinking Our Relationship with AI,
The Post-GPS Battlefield – Navigating in the Dark with Atomic Magnetometers
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Picture a modern commercial airliner cruising at 38,000 feet through pitch-black skies over the Mediterranean. The ride is smooth, the cockpit instruments are calm, and suddenly an automated, mechanical voice pierces
Quantum-Centric Supercomputing: Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Utility
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Quantum computing has long suffered from an exhausting public relations cycle: on one side lies the distant theoretical promise of world-altering supremacy; on the other, the sobering reality of noisy, fragile
Escaping Flatland: Biological World Models and the Laplace Engine
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. More than two centuries ago, the French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace conceptualized a powerful scientific thought experiment that would become known to history as Laplace’s Demon. If an intellect could know the