On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
it’s all about data – who’s collecting it, and why, and how it can serve us, and maybe not. Lee Omar from Red Ninja talks about smart cities around the w...
Episode 19-37 Shrewd Samaritan in a Connected World (00:58:59)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
USF professor and development economist Bruce Wydick about “Shrewd Samaritan - Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor”. Which pover...
Episode 19-36 Your Mind Needs Motion (00:58:59)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
UC San Francisco professor Dr. Louise Aronson talks about a new stage of life: Elderhood, – Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life. With...
Episode 19-34 What Motivates the People Driving Biotech (00:58:59)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
the committed people who lead the biotech industry. Physician-entrepreneur Dr. Jeremy Levin chairs BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and a...
Episode 19-33 Talking to Robots – Future and Imagined (00:58:59)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Tech Nation’s former biotech correspondent David Ewing Duncan about his new book - “Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human Robot Future.” Then Dr. Daniel...
Episode 19-31 Predicting Weather – Data, Computers, and Your Smartphone (00:58:59)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the people who predict the weather - Todd Hutchinson, the Director of Numerical Weather Prediction at The Weather Company, and Cameron Clayton, the Genera...
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Surgeon Dr. Justin Barad, the co-founder and CEO of Osso VR. They help surgeons to learn new medical techniques better. And another MD, Dr. Daniel Chao co...
Episode 19-29 PAIN – When You Feel It, and When You Can’t (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with we’re talking about pain. Podiatric surgeon Dr. David Armstrong, a Professor of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Davide Vigano, CEO of S...
Episode 19-27 Info We Trust? (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with data storyteller RJ Andrews, the author, “Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Ali Fattay, the CEO of Curis, ta...
Episode 19-26 Is Elon Musk More Important Than Steve Jobs? (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New Zealand journalist, Hamish McKenzie about his book: “Insane Mode – How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil”. Then, ...
Episode 19-25 Pencil and Paper – the Tech of Choice (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dan Roam, the founder of The Napkin Academy and author of “Draw To Win”. And on Tech Nation Health, a new model for addressing genetically-driven diseases...
Episode 19-25 All that personal medical data (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Dr. Eric Schadt, the Founder & CEO of Sema4 talks about the explosion of personal medical information, and how it could work for us in the future. Then on Tech Nation Healt...
Episode 19-24 Zombies … again (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Wired science journalist Matt Simon and his book: “Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and Ourselves”. Who’s a parasite? Who’s a host...
Episode 19-23 Technology and Iron – from the Middle Ages to modern France (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jean-Jacques Augagneur, CEO of Lacanche, and Chef Patrick Boisjot, the Director of Export. It’s a story of technology and iron - from the Middle Ages thro...
Episode 19-22 How To Do Nothing (There’s NO App for That!) (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Jenny Odell, the author of “How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy.” Then Tech Nation Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft tells us about the World Health Organiza...
Episode 19-21 Why Is There a Climate Debate? (It’s Not Science) (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, how we came to question climate change. To even question the science. What’s it all about? Nathaniel Rich, journalist and author of “Losing Earth: A Recent History”, explai...
Episode 19-20 Tech and the Future of Suburbs and Cities (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Peter Calthorpe, co-founder of Urban Footprint, who focuses on sustainable urban growth and planning, and the author of “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”.
Episode 19-19 The Tech of Spycraft in Occupied France (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, journalist Sonia Purnell talks about the spycraft of Virginia Hall, an American in Occupied France during World War II. Her book is called “A Woman of No Importance.” Then ...
Episode 19-18 The Snow Leopards Of War Torn Afghanistan (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Dr. Alex Dehgan joins Moira to talk about “The Snow Leopard Project … and other Adventures in Warzone Conservation”. And we’ll from Tech Nation regular contributor, Gary Da...
Episode 19-17 The Advantages of “Unsafe Thinking” (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Fast Company columnist Jonah Sachs. His book is “Unsafe Thinking: How to Be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Tom Lowery from T2 Biosy...
Episode 19-15 Using Tech for Social Change (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Ann Mei Chang, the Executive Director of Lean Impact, before a live audience at the Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Symposium at the University of San Francisco. Her b...
On this week’s Tech Nation, Science/Tech entrepreneur Safi Bahcall. He’s written “Loonshots … How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries.” And French biotech...
Episode 19-13 Cybersecurity and the New Technologies (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, Mikko Hyppönen, the Chief Research Officer at F-Secure. Cybersecurity in the world today, as well as Hypponen’s Law. Then, the new approach taken with first Post-Partum dep...
Episode 19-14 The Reading Brain in the Digital World (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf and her book: “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World”.
Then on Tech Nation Health, neuroscientist Dr. Mark Gurney, CEO ...
Episode 19-12 Part II – Chernobyl – Then and Now... (00:59:00)
On this week’s Tech Nation, historian and MIT professor Kate Brown talks about “Manual for Survival … A Chernobyl Guide to the Future”. She looks at the long term impact of Chernobyl – on humans, on t...
