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Future Knowledge explores the intersection of technology, culture, and information policy with leading authors, scholars, and experts. From copyright and open access to AI and digital preservation, we discuss the big issues shaping knowledge and creativity in the digital age. This podcast is brought to you by the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance.
Unknown Host hosts Future Knowledge, a arts show with 40 episodes published.
In Reclaiming Fair Use , copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi argue that fair use is not merely an exception to copyright law, but one of its core principles, enabling creativity, scholarship, journali
What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture , Future Knowled
Languages can vanish just as easily as books, websites, or archives, and when they do, entire ways of understanding the world can disappear with them. In the fifth episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Cult
Folktales are living records of culture, identity, and collective memory. In the fourth episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture , host Vida Vojić speaks with writer and researcher Helen Nde , founder
Queer history has often been overlooked, erased, or excluded from traditional archives. In the third episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture , host Vida Vojić speaks with writer, artist, and archivist
Why preserve a cookbook? In the second episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture , host Vida Vojić speaks with Katie Livingston , a doctoral researcher at Stanford University who studies domestic cultur
As more of our cultural heritage moves online, a troubling question is emerging: what happens when the things we create, share, and cherish simply disappear? In the first episode of our special six-part series on Vanishi
In Transaction Denied: How Financial Institutions Silence Dissent and Undermine Democracy , author Rainey Reitman examines the growing phenomenon of financial censorship, in which banks, payment processors, and credit ca
In AI Tools, Not Gods, policy researcher Caroline De Cock examines how myths about artificial intelligence—framing it as an all-knowing mind or an unstoppable force—have come to shape public policy and public understandi
In Law and Technology, legal scholar Ryan Calo explores one of the defining challenges of our time: how societies can govern rapidly evolving technologies before those technologies reshape laws, rights, and institutions.
As artificial intelligence reshapes how information is created, accessed, and controlled, a quieter crisis is emerging: the potential loss of the web’s historical record. In this episode, tech writer Mike Masnick, Mark G
In Vanishing Culture, editors Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland and Juliya Ziskina bring together voices exploring what it means to lose access to our shared cultural record in the digital age. From disappearing websites and
In Data Cartels, legal scholar Sarah Lamdan exposes the shadowy industry built around collecting, packaging, and selling our personal data. She reveals how powerful companies hoard information and use aggressive tactics
In The Secret Life of Data, authors Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore how the information we generate every day—email addresses, phone numbers, browsing habits, even biometric data—circulates through vast digital
In The Apple II Age, historian Laine Nooney tells the story of the computer that helped launch Apple, and reshape personal computing. Introduced in 1977, the Apple II became a cultural phenomenon not just because of its
In Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, journalist Vauhini Vara explores how the technologies we use to understand the world—search engines, social platforms, and now AI systems—are also reshaping how we understand our
For more than three decades, Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been at the center of the fight to protect privacy, free expression, and innovation online—taking on the NSA
Computer scientist Sayash Kapoor joins legal scholar Kevin Frazier to discuss “AI as Normal Technology,” the paper he co-authored with Arvind Narayanan, arguing that artificial intelligence is not an apocalyptic superint
Author Edward Wilson-Lee joins Brewster Kahle to uncover the astonishing true story behind The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books. Wilson-Lee chronicles the adventures of Hernando Colón, who sailed with his father Christophe
For years, the open access movement has promised a more equitable world for scholarship. But as more of our publishing infrastructure is shaped—or captured—by commercial incentives, a harder question keeps surfacing: if
Danielle Citron
Law Professor, Privacy Scholar & MacArthur Genius Fellow · University of Virginia School of Law
1 appearance on this show
Mark Graham
New Zealand rugby league's player of the century · Abundant Living Family Church
2 appearances on this show
Mike Masnick
Techdirt
1 appearance on this show
Vauhini Vara
award-winning journalist, author of Searches, Pulitzer Prize nominee
1 appearance on this show
Cindy Cohn
author and Digital Rights Activist · Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 appearances on this show
Sayash Kapoor
Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy
1 appearance on this show
Vint Cerf
1 appearance on this show
Luke Hogg
FAI Senior Fellow · Foundation for American Innovation
1 appearance on this show
Jon Stokes
clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and leadership coach · Ars Technica
1 appearance on this show
Cory Doctorow
bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor · Electronic Frontier Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir
1 appearance on this show
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir
1 appearance on this show
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