Silicon Valley used to be regarded as the global hub of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. It was the home of the world’s best technologies, new products and services. Yet today, Silicon Valley’s tech companies seem to have become the twenty-first-century equivalent of mediaeval robber barons. They are condemned for fleecing customers, evading taxes, and pocketing monopoly profits. Once associated with freedom, Silicon Valley is now condemned as the agency of global surveillance. Has it gone from overhype to over-reach? Or given emerging new technologies – such as express transit systems, autonomous vehicles and biotech – is the criticism mostly unfair?
SPEAKERS
JAMIE BARTLETT
director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos; author, Radicals; presenter, BBC’s The Secrets of Silicon Valley
DANIEL BEN-AMI
journalist; author, Ferraris for All: in defence of economic progress
ANDREW BERNSTEIN
author, The Capitalist Manifesto: the historic, economic, and philosophic case for laissez-faire; affiliate, Ayn Rand Institute
LAUREN RAZAVI
managing director, Flibl; award-winning writer and consultant
#LockdownDebates: What does George Floyd’s killing mean for British society?
#LockdownDebates: Morality during a pandemic, with Susan Neiman and Frank Furedi
#LockdownDebates: Has Covid-19 killed globalism?
#EconomyForum: Covid-19 and the US economy
#LockdownDebates: Is ‘gotcha’ journalism the new normal?
#EconomyForum: China, Covid-19 and the West
#BookClub: The moral dilemma of Ian McEwen’s Machines Like Me
#Arts&SocietyForum: How Salman Rushdie changed everything
#LockdownDebates: How much should we listen to experts?
#EducationForum: Is it time to reopen our schools?
#EconomyForum: Covid-19, from Germany to the developing world
#Arts&SocietyForum: The Burial at Thebes and the tragic imagination in poetry
#EconomyForum: How can we escape a coronavirus depression?
#EducationForum: Pedagogy and the ’Corona Classroom’
#EconomyForum: How will coronavirus affect Johnsonomics?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Is the lockdown lifting in Europe?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Has Coronavirus put an end to the generation wars?
#BookClub: Power, democracy and coronavirus in George Orwell’s Animal Farm
#SportscastOfIdeas: Missing the beautiful game
#PodcastOfIdeas: Facing the lockdown from Singapore to Johannesburg
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free