Kitchen table-style conversations with some of the world’s brightest minds

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Welcome to Luminary – kitchen table-style conversations with some of the world’s brightest minds, exploring boundaries of human knowledge. Join us on a pursuit to transmit intuition and ideas.

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on December 11, 2023December 11, 2023 Posted in: algorithmic rents, open source

Tim O’Reilly on Open Source Alchemy: Shaping the Tech Landscape

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/565/tim-oreilly-on-open-source-alchemy-shaping-the-tech-landscape.mp3

Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, a company that has profoundly impacted how generations of […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on November 6, 2023October 21, 2023 Posted in: capitalism, commons-based peer production, ideology and technology, institutions and technology

Yochai Benkler on Tech’s True Forces: Capitalism, Institutions, and Ideological Impact

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/553/yochai-benkler-on-techs-true-forces-capitalism-institutions-and-ideological-impact.mp3

Yochai Benkler is a professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on October 9, 2023September 3, 2023 Posted in: history of technology, progress studies, technology evolution

Jason Crawford on progress and the history of technology 

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/547/jason-crawford-on-progress-and-the-history-of-technology.mp3

Jason Crawford is the founder of Roots of Progress and a prolific writer on all things technology and progress. Jason […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on September 4, 2023August 13, 2023 Posted in: digital technology, economic progress, nuclear energy, solar energy

Noah Smith on digital technology adoption, energy, and economic progress

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/541/noah-smith-on-digital-technology-adoption-energy-and-economic-progress.mp3

Noah Smith is a renaissance man, blogger, and commentator. Noah’s popular blog, Noahpinion, focuses on economics, technology, and current events. […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on August 7, 2023July 16, 2023 Posted in: capitalism, Neo-Schumpeterian, technology cycles

Carlota Perez on technological revolutions and capitalism 

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/536/carlota-perez-on-technological-revolutions-and-capitalism.mp3

Carlota Perez is a pre-eminent multi-disciplinarian, scholar, and author. Carlota studies the nature of technological change and economic systems, and […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on July 10, 2023July 2, 2023 Posted in: chatgpt, distributed version control, education and ai, llm, value generation

Clay Shirky on value generation, ChatGpt, and education

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/525/clay-shirky-on-value-generation-chatgpt-and-education.mp3

Clay Shirky is the Vice Provost of Educational Technologies at New York University and an associate professor at the New […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on March 13, 2023February 26, 2023 Posted in: models of innovation, new things under the sun, policy, progress studies

Matt Clancy on innovation, policy, and Progress Studies 

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/514/matt-clancy-on-innovation-policy-and-progress-studies.mp3

Matt Clancy is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy and a senior fellow at The Institute for Progress, a think […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on February 6, 2023January 29, 2023 Posted in: democracy and technology, fifth wave, politics and technology, The Revolt of the Public

Martin Gurri on the fifth wave, democracy, and technology

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/504/martin-gurri-on-the-fifth-wave-democracy-and-technology.mp3

Martin Gurri is the visiting research fellow at Mercatus Center and a former CIA analyst. Martin’s core interests center around […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on June 27, 2022June 18, 2022 Posted in: economic systems, increasing returns, nature of technology, technology evolution, virtual economy

Brian Arthur on technology, software, and economic systems

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/467/brian-arthur-on-technology-software-and-economic-systems.mp3

Brian Arthur is a storied economist and complexity thinker. He is a pioneer in a number of disciplines including increasing […]

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Posted in: Season 2 Posted on May 16, 2022April 30, 2022 Posted in: digital privacy, ietf, internet, internet standards, nature of the internet

Alissa Cooper on building the internet

https://luminary.fm/episode-player/452/alissa-cooper-on-building-the-internet.mp3

Alissa Cooper is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Technology Policy and a Fellow at Cisco Systems. She […]

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