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Recode Decode: MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito
Recode Decode: MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jun 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Joichi "Joi" Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about engineers who over-simplify the world's problems, the Media Lab's role in "surveillance capitalism," and why the values of the tech world will shift from within.In this episode: Ito's background and what the Media Lab does; techno-utopianism and the early days of the internet; how Ito got to MIT; computers implanted in the human body; Shoshana Zuboff and "surveillance capitalism"; the gap between technology and the law; why we're not living in a simulation; what’s missing from the AI discourse; the problem with how tech solves problems; the dangers of bad policy; and the subordination of liberal arts at schools like MIT.
Released:
Jun 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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