Why We Need To Unwire from Big Tech: Gaia Bernstein on how to gain control over addictive digital technologies
EPISODE 1406: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of UNWIRED, Gaia Bernstein about how society has an addictive technology problem and how we can grain control over this tech
Gaia Bernstein is the Technology, Privacy and Policy Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. She is author of the new book, Unwired, and writes, teaches, and lectures on subjects at the intersections of law, technology, health, and privacy. Her latest book is UNWIRED: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies (2023)
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"
Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy
Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time
Episode 1995: Sam Daley-Harris explains how to reclaim American democracy
Episode 1994: Why 1924 was the year that Adolf Hitler became "Hitler" and what it teaches us about the crisis of American democracy in 2024
Episode 1993: Keith Teare on the Hobbesian war of all-against-all inside & outside Silicon Valley
Episode 1992: Andrew Cockburn explains how Dr. Strangelove has always been a feature - rather than a bug - of Silicon Valley
Episode 1991: Bethanne Patrick on how to disrupt the disruption of our revolutionary age
Episode 1990: James Kaplan on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the making of the most miraculous jazz record of all time
Epiosode 1989: Travis Rieder explains why an ethically pure life is neither moral nor practical in our complex world
Episode 1988: How the Patty Hearst saga captured the paranoia of early 70's America
EPISODE 1977: Max Stearns on why a "Parliamentary America" is the best fix for the country's broken democratic system
Episode 1976: Keith Teare on the DEI Elephant in every Silicon Valley Boardroom