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The Unfinished Business of Women and Work
A recently released major study on women in the workplace shows that the gender gap continues to persist in corporate America, and for some heretofore unexplored reasons. Some of those nuances — and...
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Rethinking Jobs in the Connected Age
During the largest transformation of the American economy in a century — one defined by rapid globalization and digitization — a recent study estimates that 47 percent of American jobs may be disrupted...
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Democratizing Health Care Via Smartphone
Having a medical app on your smartphone is not just a cute gadget anymore, according to Scripps cardiologist Eric Topol— it’s part of a revolution: the democratization of medicine. Topol spoke with...
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Sparking a Revolution in Disease Treatment
Innovations are often explored at the Aspen Ideas Festival, and at the 2015 Spotlight Health segment of the event, medical experts told an audience about one of the more promising and exciting...
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Let's Talk About Conversation in the Robotic Age
Psychologist and MIT technology professor Sherry Turkle believes the human race is at a robotic moment — a time when we are ready for and accepting of robots, even if they’re not quite yet ubiquitous....
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PODCAST: Secrets of the Creative Brain
The “Aspen Ideas to Go” podcast is a weekly show featuring fascinating speakers who have presented at the Aspen Ideas Festival and other public programs offered by the Aspen Institute — including...
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Should College Be Free?
Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation, debates the free college question at the Aspen Ideas Festival. It’s a question of fierce debate but not much progress lately: What to do, if...
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PODCAST: Our Relationship with Technology
The architecture of how we live our lives is badly in need of renovation and repair. One of the things that makes it harder to connect with ourselves — and thus our creativity, intuition, and wisdom —...
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I Built a Superpower to Treat My Son's Diabetes
Vivienne Ming is an entrepreneur and theoretical neuroscientist. She will speak at Spotlight Health 2016.Four years ago, my family spent our worst Thanksgiving at Oakland Children’s Hospital. It began...
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Libraries as Sacred Spaces in a Technological World
Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, and Anthony Marx, President of the New York Public Library, discuss why libraries are the original and future open source platform.On an evening in...
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The Complexities of Today's Security Challenges
The Director of the FBI has said that the Bureau has counterterrorism investigations underway in all 50 states, underscoring the gravity of the “insider” terrorism threat in the United States....
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Cancer: Breakthroughs and Challenges
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among adults in the US and cancer care costs $125 billion a year. In this episode we hear from medical experts who have researched, written, and made...
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Aspen Ideas Festival "Big Ideas"
Every summer, writers, professors, artists, activists, and others deliver their “big ideas” at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The onstage advice celebrates the Festival itself, which brings together great...
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Has the Internet Changed Anything About Sexuality?
Marty Klein has been a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist for 34 years. He is an award-winning author of seven books about sexuality. An expert on pornography, he is a...
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5 Questions with Gloria Mark
Gloria Mark is a professor in the Informatics Department at University of California, Irvine, researching how digital technology impacts our lives, particularly multitasking, focus of attention,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Spotlight Health Addresses Americans' Health Concerns
What are Americans’ concerns when it comes to health and health care? Spotlight Health is exploring topics like healthy food, disease, the cost of care, and health innovations. Those topics are...
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'FRONTLINE' Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath on New Media and Mentorship
Photo Credit: Jonas Fredwall KarlssonRaney Aronson-Rath is executive producer of “FRONTLINE,” PBS’s flagship investigative journalism series. She spoke at Spotlight Health on June 28th on a panel...
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The farming of the future looks nothing like it does today.
CALEB HARPER is the principal investigator and director of the OPEN AGRICULTURE (OPENAG) INITIATIVE at MIT Media Lab. He spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 29th on a panel called “The Bits and...
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Millions of children can't do their homework because they don't have access...
Jessica Rosenworcel is a member of the US Federal Communications Commission. She will speak at the Festival on June 30th on a panel called “Closing the Digital Divide.” Below, Rosenworcel explains how...
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Rebuilding Trust Between Police and Communities of Color
High-profile episodes of violence have highlighted excessive force and mistreatment of people of color by police. And this summer, police have become targets of violence with attacks in cities like...
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Should Tech Replace Humans or Help Them?
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, admits technology is replacing jobs that humans used to do, but ultimately he sees tech as a partner rather than a job-killer. ”I do want technology that is...
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CIA Director John Brennan on ISIL, Russia, & Cyber Threats
In a rare interview, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency weighs in on the global security scene and explains the current risks to the United States. John Brennan is interviewed by Dina...
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Facebook, Google, and China's Control of Cyberspace
Adam Segal with the Council on Foreign Relations talks about internet control in China at Aspen Ideas 2016.Since President Xi Jinping took power in China, there’s been a notable change, according to a...
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On the Road to Artificial Intelligence
Gill Pratt in June at Aspen Ideas 2016.Once the realm of science fiction, smart machines are rapidly becoming part of our world—and these technologies offer amazing potential to improve the way we...
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Jeff Bezos on High Tech, Space, and Artificial Intelligence
When Amazon launched, it employed just ten people. Now it’s one of the largest retailers in the world. CEO Jeff Bezos describes what companies need in today’s fast-paced, high tech business...
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Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Author and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman says the world has entered an age of dizzying acceleration, and in this episode, he explains how to live in it. His latest bookThank you for Being...
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A Look Back on Obama
David Rothkopf, CEO and editor of the FP Group, speaks with Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg at the Aspen Ideas Festival. As President Barack Obama prepares to step down, we look back...
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How to Survive Our Faster Future
Joi Ito, author of "Whiplash" and director of the MIT Media Lab, sits down with Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson.The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in modern...
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The Industries of the Future
Alec Ross, author of "The Industries of the Future," speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival.If the 20 years from 1995 to 2015 were shaped in significant measure by digitization and the rise of the...
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Combating the Rise of Hate Online
Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League. He is speaking about the rise in hate online and in our communities at the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival. Fifty years...
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Securing the Homeland, Featuring John Kelly
Pete Williams, justice correspondent for NBC News, speaks with John Kelly at the Aspen Security Forum in July. At the time, Kelly was Homeland Security Secretary. Now he's serving as White House Chief...
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WTF (What's The Future)?
Tim O'Reilly speaks with Charles Duhigg at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June. An increasing number of jobs are being performed by intelligent machines rather than humans, so what does that mean for our...
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Jeffrey Sachs on Why We're Living in a Dangerous Time
Steve Clemons speaks with Jeffrey Sachs at Spotlight Health in June. In a recent column, world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs wrote, “the White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralyzed; and the...
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The Runaway Species
Co-authors of the book "The Runaway Species," David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt speak at Aspen Ideas. Why don’t cows choreograph dances? Why don’t squirrels design elevators? And, why don’t...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Medicine?
Daniel Kraft and Deborah DiSanzo speak at Spotlight Health in June. Can artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionize medicine and ultimately replace doctors? Now more than ever, doctors are relying...
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How Technology Rewrites the Business Playbook
Journalist Thomas Friedman speaks with MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee at the Aspen Ideas Festival in 2017. Machines are making decisions humans used to make. The world’s five most valuable...
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How Russia Spreads Propaganda
Julia Ioffe, foreign policy reporter for The Atlantic, speaks with Russian journalists Galina Timchenko and Alexey Kovalev at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Galina Timchenko was editor in chief at...
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The Role of AI in a Healthier Future
Danile Kraft, Deborah DiSanzo, and James Hamblin talk about technology and health at Spotlight Health 2017. If the concept of artificial intelligence revolutionizing medicine conjures up a future of...
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How Safe Are We Online? There's Good News and Bad
Lisa Monaco, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Yasmin Green speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The news on the cybersecurity front doesn’t sound so good, especially if you listen to a panel of experts...
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Keeping Your Data Safe
NCSC Director William Evanina speaks with NPR's Dina Temple-Raston about cybersecurity at the Aspen Institute.As our lives become increasingly tech driven, we’re more vulnerable to cyberattacks, and...
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Behind the Scenes: Producing Aspen Ideas 2018
Kitty Boone is the director of the Aspen Ideas Festival, which starts with Spotlight Health on June 21. What We’ve Been Up ToIt's our 14th year of programming the Festival, and we're excited to bring...
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Podcast: Artificial Intelligence & Business
Gary Marcus, Tim O'Reilly, Michael Chui, and Erik Schatzker (not pictured) talk about the impact of artificial intelligence on business.Bill Gates portends doomsday is coming. The late Stephen Hawking...
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How to Catch a Bot on Twitter
Ash Bhat is a tech entrepreneur working on projects around social impact. In 2017, he co-launched RoBhat Labs, which focuses on tackling the spread of fake news and misinformation. He will speak in...
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2018 Film Lineup
Anote Tong, former president of the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, prepares to speak in Paris on the future of his nation and rising sea levels. He appears in filmmaker Matthieu Rytz's new film...
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How to Follow Along with the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival
The 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival, in which some 450 presenters and 3,000 attendees from all over the world visit Aspen, Colorado to discuss the most pressing ideas and issues of our time, will take place...
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How to Stop the Spread of Fake News on Social Media
Renee DiResta is policy head at Data for Democracy and research director at New Knowledge. She will speak as part of the Staying Human in a High-Tech World track at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Below she...
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Why Startups Are Thriving Outside Silicon Valley
Steve Case is co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Revolution, an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build “built-to-last” businesses, and chairman of the Case Foundation, which he...
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Breaking Our Addiction to Screens
Tristan Harris, founder of the Center for Human Technology, talks about tech's threat to humanity at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been under fire for not doing...
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The Changing Nature of Trust in the Digital Age
Rachel Botsman, an expert on technology and trust, talks about how our trust is changing in the digital age.Technology is changing who and how we trust. While our faith in institutions such as...
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Reviving the Woolly Mammoth (and Other Extinct Species)
Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand founded the conservation organization Revive and Restore. They spoke with science writer Flora Licthman at the Aspen Ideas Festival.What if we could turn back time and...
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