Ben Pring is the head of thought leadership at Cognizant and co-founded and leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. Ben is on the advisory board of the Labor and Work Life program at Harvard Law School. He recently co-wote a new book on dealing with the changes technology is bringing. We spoke about the book and the future of society and work. { Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future (Wiley, 2021)
0:39 – Ben talks about why he studies the future and co-wrote this book.
2:22 – Ben talks about the audience for the book.
4:13 – Ben talks about recommendations to deal with issues with technology.
6:23 – Ben talks about the wild and anonymous elements of the internet.
9:02 – Ben talks about a controlled internet versus a wild one. He also discusses automation in relation to more cerebral work.
15:28 – Ben talks about how medical and scientific tasks may be automated and how to deal with that.
17:48 – Ben talks about new jobs that will be created by new technology.
20:55 – Ben talks about Universal Basic Income.
23:17 – Ben talks about digital winners versus digital laggards.
25:20 – Ben talks the Digital 7 idea.
27:14 – Ben talks about legal systems and the digital world.
29:18 – Ben talks about the geography of digital infrastructure.
32:14 – Ben talks about space exploration.
35:04 – Ben talks about barriers of entry in the digital world and in the space world.
37:12 – Ben talks the spread of wealth over the digital economy.
40:18 – Ben talks about education.
42:00 – Ben talks about their specific recommendations.
43:32 – Ben talks about fixes for the system.
46:58 – Ben talks about Star Trek and science fiction motivating him.
49:38 – Ben talks about the entertainment industry and its approach to the future.
52:29 – Ben talks about pessimism and optimism about the future.
54:14 – Ben talks about digital pessimism in China and India.
55:44 – Ben talks about Indonesia in the digital economy. He also discusses national security and digital issues.
1:00:24 – Ben talks about digital leadership.
1:01:16 – Ben talks about quantum computing.
1:04:15 – Ben talks about our ability to understand the technological power we’ll have.
1:07:15 – They’re website is www.cognizant.com/future-of-work
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James Miller has decades of experience working on spacecraft navigation. He has also worked extensively in programming computer systems to conduct navigation operations. We spoke about his experiences with the Mariner, Viking, and NEAR missions for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is part 2 of a two part interview.
0:25 – Jim talks about a shutter problem with Mariner 6.
5:03 – Jim talks about his section manager on the mission and getting fired and rehired.
13:27 – Jim talks about Viking issues.
20:53 – Jim talks about Dennis Tito, Lou Kingsland, and backhanded compliments.
24:17 – Jim talks about Jupiter mission Galileo.
28:12 – Jim relates an interesting story on the discovery of volcanoes on Io.
33:51 – Jim talks about navigating missions out of the solar system.
38:46 – Jim talks about the new book he’s writing on general relativity and software.
Jacqueline Mitton has published over thirty books on astronomy and is a past editor of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Simon Mitton is Life Fellow at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He has written more than a dozen books on astronomy and the history of science and is Fellow and a former Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society. I spoke to them about their new book on famous astronomer Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin (Belknap Press, 2021)
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0:37 – Jacqueline talks about how she got into studying Vera Rubin.
3:57 – Simon talks about how he got into writing on Vera’s work.
8:37 – Simon talks about how he became interested in astronomy.
9:38 – Jacqueline talks about how she organized the biography.
14:18 – Simon talks about how science biographers usually approach their subjects.
15:31 – Jacqueline talks about the importance of conveying Vera as a person.
16:23 – Simon talks about Vera’s scientific discoveries.
18:06 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s scientific interests.
18:30 – Simon talks about the material the universe is made of.
18:58 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s interest in determining galaxy masses.
19:59 – Simon talks about Vera being an observational astronomer.
21:24 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s measurements of galaxy rotation speeds.
22:44 – Simon talks about Vera’s results being a puzzle.
23:36 – Jacqueline talks about Vera not being first to find flat galaxy rotation curves.
27:50 – Simon talks about Vera having access to a better spectrograph than others.
29:08 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s work after the Andromeda galaxy.
30:37 – Simon and Jacqueline talk about dark matter the stability of spiral galaxies.
35:15 – Simon talks about Vera’s interest in dark matter.
37:23 – Jacqueline talks about Vera’s feelings about physics.
41:37 – Jacqueline talks about how Vera broke down barriers for women.
44:42 – Jacqueline talks about when Vera realize she needed to stand up for women.
54:05 – Simon and Jacqueline talk about the archives they used for their research.
57:37 – Jacqueline and Simon talk about Vera’s correspondence with a Jesuit priest.
1:01:50 – Jacqueline and Simon talk about how surprised they were that some colleagues had thought Vera’s life might not be interesting.