Russell Davies

Interesting Now

I'm trying to find a fresh lot of speakers for Interesting. Different, various voices. They tend to ask me, not unreasonably, what kind of thing it is. I struggle to answer but one way is to point at previous speakers.

To that end I've been interviewing people who've spoken before and asked them 'what's happened since?'

First up is Nat Buckley who spoke in 2016. About knitting. This is a fascinating 10 minutes. Give it a look. And then book yourself a ticket for more of this.

Huge thanks to Mark Boxall for the editing. (Don't blame him for the film making and sound, that was all me)

 

Notes for a talk: Cosmopolitan cover

"a wide-angle shot from below of a female astronaut with an athletic feminine body walking with swagger toward camera on Mars in an infinite universe, synthwave digital art"

Do you really need the picture?

Notes for a talk - Artificial intelligence is creating a new world order

"Over the last few years, an increasing number of scholars have argued that the impact of AI is repeating the patterns of colonial history. European colonialism, they say, was characterized by the violent capture of land, extraction of resources, and exploitation of people—for example, through slavery—for the economic enrichment of the conquering country. While it would diminish the depth of past traumas to say the AI industry is repeating this violence today, it is now using other, more insidious means to enrich the wealthy and powerful at the great expense of the poor"

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