The Technoskeptic

Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.

Facial recognition expert Clare Garvie explains how police are using (and abusing) this dangerous technology.

Josh Golin, Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a corporate culture of consumerism and surveillance that has ensnared our kids.

Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.

Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.

Father Jim Keenan, director of the Jesuit Institute at Boston College, discusses Pope Francis's views on environmentalism and social justice.

Jonathan Taplin, former music and film maven, tells what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators has done to the arts, journalism, and democracy.

Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.

Neurologist Adam Gazzaley discusses how the brain's attentional system functions–or doesn't–when buffeted by digital distraction.