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Metaviews to the Future

Metaviews Media Management Ltd.

Metaviews is a podcast about the big picture and what comes next. As an open source intelligence agency, Metaviews is focused on the future while also grounded in the present. Hosted by Jesse Hirsh and featuring a diverse range of guests, the show looks at the collision of political economy, technology, culture, and society.

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01:02:53

Algorithmic injustice and the infamous tale of...

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/07/16

Business_Daddy is the name of a twitch user, artist, community organizer, chef, and brilliant intellectual. Their efforts to create community on twitch are both inspirational, but also controversial. In this tale of algorithmic injustice, we explore how on social media, you're often presumed guilty, without the opportunity to prove your innocence.https://twitter.com/hotdoghalo

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01:00:44

Sociopathic Innovation and the SciFi Economics Lab

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/07/14

Alberto Cottica from the Science Fiction Economics Lab joins Jesse Hirsh to talk about Sociopathic Innovation and using science fiction to imagine alternate economic systems.Alberto's essay on sociopathic innovation:https://edgeryders.eu/t/sociopathic-innovation-how-we-are-investing-most-in-the-most-evil-technologies-long/15979The science fiction economics lab:https://scifieconomics.world/

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49:30

The Metaviews of Edutainment with Reuben Christian

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/07/12

Jesse Hirsh speaks with Reuben Christian about his work exploring the intersections of our culture while getting people together to experience joy. He argues we need more emotional literacy to better appreciate our shared humanity. If more people could meet themselves, perhaps we'd focus more on our presence, rather than our future.https://www.instagram.com/reubenchristian1/

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54:35

The potential of public (sector) platforms

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/07/07

Vasiliki Bednar leads us on a discussion on the potential of public platforrms.We have come to rightfully resent the propaganda of the gig economy that assures us platform companies are equitable when they tend to be exploitative. But they don’t have to be predatory. Other jurisdictions are experimenting withworker-owned platform co-operatives. It’s not too hard to imagine public sector platforms. Indeed, we must firstre-imagine them as we consider whether they are worth investing in and building

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55:00

The future of work is everywhere!?

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/07/05

The pandemic has empowered professionals to pursue a balance between life and work, leading many to move out of major cities to find refuge in rural communities. What does this shift mean for the future of work and the role of super cities? How should government policies support rural economic development while also investing in cities as economic engines? Is the Internet transforming where we work? Fibre optic internet is one obvious essential requirement, but so are robust transportation networks,

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38:20

Automated Media: Chad Thiele on GPT-3 and automatic...

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/06/29

Chad Thiele is the founder of the AI Content Dojo, a group exploring the rise of GPT-3 powered automating writing and copy editing tools.We spoke with him about the emerging industry forming around APIs like GPT-3 and other automated media tools.

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26:50

NFTs: Manufacturing artificial scarcity

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/06/25

Murley Herrle-Fanning joins us to discuss NFTs, crypto art, and virtual real estate.As per usual, the reporting on this technology driven phenomena is misleading at best, entirely wrong at worst. Although I’m not convinced that this is a technology story per se, but rather an investing, or scam story. In so far as the Art world is a combination of the two.For example the figures cited in NFT stories. Those numbers are incorrect, as they are translations. In most cases these transactions are not in

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54:41

Defund Big Tech and Refund Community!

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/06/24

This is the recording of a Metaviews salon we conducted in February 2021, with Vasiliki Bednar and Greg Majster. It was in response to a paper published that featured the following:We are inspired by renewed calls toDefund the Policein the United States, which have reinvigorated vital debate regarding the funding of police departments, who is actually served by them, and what forms of historical injustice are perpetuated by current institutions of policing and incarceration. In the context of the

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31:00

Does democracy need less transparency?

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/06/24

Transparency is becoming an easy go to as a solution to almost any problem of the algorithmic era. Given the phrase “black box society” this is understandable, as so much of our world is opaque or secretive, that there is a natural desire for more access and scrutiny.Yet in this rush to champion transparency, are we using a broad brush when greater nuance is necessary?For example, personal privacy is essential, but what about corporate privacy or secrecy? Privacy for the individual and transparency

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01:02:02

Is there such a thing as Responsible Innovation?

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/06/23

A Metaviews salon from January 2021 on the topic of responsible innovation. What is it, and why should we be encouraging it? Led by Vasiliki Bednar, this salon looks at how the pandemic provides an opportunity for innovation.

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01:01:25

Competition law is cool now!?

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/06/23

Competition law is increasingly in the news as antitrust and regulatory actions come for Big Tech. In this salon from January 2021, we discuss competition law in general, and particularly in Canada. Robin Shaban from Vivic Research led this discussion.

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01:06:32

We demand innovative technology polices

Metaviews to the Future ·

2021/05/13

Paris Marx is a writer, researcher, and host of the podcast "Tech Won't Save Us". We had him on the show to talk about the political economy of innovative technology policies.

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