Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams
BBC documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer, which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life.…
Future Knowledge: Walled Culture
While major recording artists are sued for alleged plagiarism and most creators earn pennies for their work, media industry profits continue to soar. Libraries face mounting barriers to providing access…
Future Knowledge: The Open Web at a Crossroads: A Conversation with Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, Cindy Cohn & Jon Stokes
What made the early web so thrilling, and how do we reclaim that spirit today? In this special episode, recorded at Georgetown University’s historic Riggs Library, leaders who helped build…
The Typewriter (In the 21st Century)
The idea for the film began when director Christopher Lockett and producer Gary Nicholson read an article in the May, 2010 Wired magazine about "the last generation of typewriter repairmen."…
Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production
It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers, and various…
Future Knowledge: Enshittification
The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term for the slow, deliberate process that transformed…
Sisters with Transistors
Sisters with Transistors is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Lisa Rovner in her directorial debut. The documentary is made up of rare testimonies and archive footage. It chronicles…
Surveillance isn’t “out there” anymore
it’s on our streets
Who is Larry Ellison?
Here’s everything you need to know about the billionaire IDF donor who may soon have the keys to the TikTok algorithm in the US.