In the final episode of the Ideaspace's first season, digital artist Rafaël Rozendaal talks about being an early star of the NFT world, producing code-based work, and how to cultivate artist time.

Eric Wargo, author of "Time Loops" and "Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self," shares a mind-blowing hypothesis about dreams, consciousness, and the fundamental structure of our lives.

An expert panel featuring a Pew Research methodologist, a rabbi, a Tlingit tribal leader, an Islamic scholar, an entrepreneur, a sociologist, a law professor, a journalist, an investor, and a BBC researcher explores measurement

Clare Farrell is cofounder of Extinction Rebellion. In a fascinating conversation, Clare discusses the group’s strategy, getting arrested, and why it’s time to move from hope to action.

Jeff Hammerbacher is a scientist, software developer, cofounder of Cloudera and Related Sciences, and the founding manager of the Facebook Data team. In this conversation, his first public interview in years, Jeff discusses Facebook, data science, philosophy, epistemology, and whether corporations should live forever.

A reflective, sensitive, and strikingly honest conversation with artist Hank Willis Thomas about his work, the impossibility of defining Black male identity, and how to operate as an infinite player inside a finite game

Why we find it hard to be our real selves online, and why we've gone into Dark Forests of the internet to escape.

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, and the author of Mission Economy, The Entrepreneurial State, and The Value of Everything. She joins the Ideaspace to discuss her work, theories of value, and how it feels to push so hard against the grain.

The Oxford economist Kate Raworth is the creator of Doughnut Economics, a powerful framework that shows how both humanity and our planet can thrive in the 21st century. In this remarkable conversation, Kate shares the origin story of the Doughnut, why this will be the century of nature's data, and much more.

David Wallace Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, talks about where we are and where we're heading, why our worst fears won't come true, and the new economics of the climate.

Earlier this year the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures announced a new $162 million fund to invest in “companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis." Albert Wenger is the Managing Partner leading those efforts, and the author of a fascinating book called "World After Capital." In this eye-opening conversation, Albert explains how bad things are and will get, why the solutions are better than we think, and an original and compelling vision...

The Sum of Us author and economic and social policy expert Heather McGhee talks about the economic costs of racism and why this is the moment to turn away from zero-sum thinking. “As this fast food worker named Bridget told me, as long as we're divided, we’re conquered. I began to see what I call solidarity dividends. These things that we can gain through collective action across lines of race that we simply can't do on our own. Higher wages, cleaner air, better funded schools. That's the...

An all-star panel of experts discusses how to effectively use metrics, how to tell if your metrics are b******t, and where the frontiers of data may take us.

Yancey is joined by Salome Viljoen, a legal scholar, to explore her paper on a new theory called Democratic Data. "The positive conditions of freedom [are] going to require data infrastructure. The bet that I’m making is that people are down to contribute to the positive conditions of their freedom if it's pitched to them that way" — Salome Viljoen

In a new interview and podcast series from the Ideaspace, the writer John Higgs explores metamodernism, post-individualism, and the rise of empathy Get on the email list at ideaspace.substack.com