Future Knowledge
by Internet Archive & Authors Alliance
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Will State Law Solve the Library eBook Crisis?
Will State Law Solve the Library eBook Crisis?
About this podcast
Future Knowledge explores the intersection of technology, culture, and information policy with leading authors, scholars, and experts. From copyright and open access to AI and digital preservation, we discuss the big issues shaping knowledge and creativity in the digital age. This podcast is brought to you by the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 46 episodes
- Will State Law Solve the Library eBook Crisis? · 46 min · Episode 45Libraries are increasingly facing restrictive eBook licensing terms that can make digital books more expensive, less durable, and harder to preserve than print. In this live…
- The Internet Archive at 30: A Conversation with Brewster Kahle · 1 h 9 min · Episode 44As the Internet Archive turns 30, founder Brewster Kahle looks back at the origins of the Archive and considers the future of libraries, digital preservation, and access to…
- Mass Surveillance and the Loss of Fun · 44 min · Episode 43In this episode of Future Knowledge, Alexis Durante-Tierney and Helen Vogelsong-Donahue, hosts of the Born Digital podcast, explore how growing up under constant surveillance may…
- Open for Whom? · 45 min · Episode 42As AI reshapes how information is created and accessed, libraries, publishers, and educators are confronting a new question: open for whom? In this live discussion, we explore…
- The Fight for the Public Record · 45 min · Episode 41The public record is the foundation of an informed democracy, but in the digital age, it is more fragile than ever. In this timely conversation, Merrilee Proffitt (Democracy’s…
- Big Fiction · 45 min · Episode 40In Big Fiction, author and Emory University professor Dan Sinykin examines how decades of mergers and acquisitions have transformed the publishing industry, and how those changes…
- Reclaiming Fair Use · 43 min · Episode 39In Reclaiming Fair Use, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi argue that fair use is not merely an exception to copyright law, but one of its core principles…
- Vanishing Culture #6: What We've Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood · 29 min · Episode 38What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our special six-part…
- Vanishing Culture #5: A Language Worth Saving with Peter Scholing · 28 min · Episode 37Languages can vanish just as easily as books, websites, or archives, and when they do, entire ways of understanding the world can disappear with them. In the fifth episode of our…
- Vanishing Culture #4: Keeping African Folktales Alive with Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs · 27 min · Episode 36Folktales are living records of culture, identity, and collective memory. In the fourth episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks with…
- Vanishing Culture #3: Saving Queer Memory with Brooke Palmieri · 23 min · Episode 35Queer history has often been overlooked, erased, or excluded from traditional archives. In the third episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić…
- Vanishing Culture #2: The Stories Hidden in Cookbooks with Katie Livingston · 19 min · Episode 34Why preserve a cookbook? In the second episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks with Katie Livingston, a doctoral researcher at…
- Vanishing Culture #1: What We Stand to Lose with Luca Messarra · 19 min · Episode 33As more of our cultural heritage moves online, a troubling question is emerging: what happens when the things we create, share, and cherish simply disappear? In the first episode…
- Transaction Denied · 34 min · Episode 32In Transaction Denied: How Financial Institutions Silence Dissent and Undermine Democracy, author Rainey Reitman examines the growing phenomenon of financial censorship, in which…
- AI Tools, Not Gods · 48 min · Episode 31In AI Tools, Not Gods, policy researcher Caroline De Cock examines how myths about artificial intelligence—framing it as an all-knowing mind or an unstoppable force—have come to…
- Law and Technology · 45 min · Episode 30In Law and Technology, legal scholar Ryan Calo explores one of the defining challenges of our time: how societies can govern rapidly evolving technologies before those…
- Preserving the Web in the Age of AI · 50 min · Episode 29As artificial intelligence reshapes how information is created, accessed, and controlled, a quieter crisis is emerging: the potential loss of the web’s historical record. In this…
- Vanishing Culture · 38 min · Episode 28In Vanishing Culture, editors Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland and Juliya Ziskina bring together voices exploring what it means to lose access to our shared cultural record in the…
- Data Cartels · 39 min · Episode 27In Data Cartels, legal scholar Sarah Lamdan exposes the shadowy industry built around collecting, packaging, and selling our personal data. She reveals how powerful companies…
- The Secret Life Of Data · 40 min · Episode 26In The Secret Life of Data, authors Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore how the information we generate every day—email addresses, phone numbers, browsing habits, even…
