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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.

PANEL:

Ashley Amaya (Senior survey methodologist at Pew Research Center)

Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D. (Sociologist and Founder at Epic Teams)

Esther Dyson (Tech journalist, investor, and Founder of Wellville) 

Morgan X’agatkeen Howard (Tlingit nation, Board of Directors for Sealaska) 

Lianne Kerlin (Senior Researcher at the BBC)

Irwin Kula (Rabbi, Director of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership)

Pauline Pigott (Senior consultant, Deloitte Sustainability France)

Übeyd Ruff (Technology Transfer Officer at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Editor at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs)

Salome Viljoen (Soon-to-be Columbia University School of Law Academic Fellow and Lecturer)

Alex Varley-Winter (UK-based investigative journalist)

Marlon Wayne (Cofounder of Impulse)

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.

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 for a world after capital.

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 new economic model, but we need to pursue the idea only through solidarity.” — Heather McGhee

The panel:

Esther Dyson: journalist, tech investor, and the Executive Founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project devoted to helping communities sustain health for the long term

Kay Makishi: entrepreneur, advisor, and mentor who serves as Principal of KEM Growth, a growth marketing consultancy

Mario Vasilescu: a robotics engineer turned humane technologist and the CEO of Readocracy

Silka Sietsma: Head of Emerging Design at Adobe

Angeline Gragasin: a writer, filmmaker, and artist, and the Co-Founder and Director of Happy Family Night Market

Claudia Gonella: Marketing & Communications Director at GRESB, an investor-led initiative that assesses and benchmarks the ESG performance of real assets

Lakshmi C: a software engineer, data analyst, and admissions manager for Teach for India based in Tamil Nuda, India

Seth Killian: a game designer best known for his work in fighting games, including Street Fighter

Zach First: the Executive Director of the Drucker Institute founded by the legendary business writer Peter Drucker

Brandon Silverman: the CEO of Crowdtangle, a social media analysis tool that’s part of Facebook

Recorded December 11, 2020

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