Featured Image: Barrett Lyon, The Opte Project Mapping the Internet (2003), MoMA. Opte is a free, open source project, initiated by Lyon with the goal of making visual representations of metaphysical spaces.
In this show, Stevie brings Bendert Zevenbergen in to the WPRB studio. Ben is a professional specialist at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values and Center for Information and Technology Policy, as well as Oxford University’s Internet Institute. In the past, Ben was a practicing information technology lawyer in Europe.
Throughout the show they discuss the Internet (what is it really), why regulating it is hard – try as some government’s might, power dynamics in tech and tech policy, and much more along these lines. Interview begins at 51 minutes in.
Science news:
- The Abel Prize in mathematics was on Tuesday awarded to Karen Uhlenbeck
- Snapping shrimp make plasma with their claws
- Through mathematical modeling, found a shape that blocks ~95% of sound. Then they made it and it works.
Playlist:
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