Should you need a license for that? For law professor and antitrust expert Rebecca Haw Allensworth, there are huge problems with professional licensing in America—and her solutions might not make anyone completely happy.
In her new book, The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong, Allensworth takes a deep dive into the ... Show More
Jul 9
Try estate law for a practice with work-life balance, says ‘Lifestyle Lawyer Revolution’ author
Laura Cowan started her career in finance, earning a CPA and working at Ernst & Young and Goldman Sachs. When she decided to go to law school at 35, she knew that she wanted to launch a boutique firm with a practice area that complemented that financial background. Estate law see ... Show More
31m 44s
Aug 2021
Lawfare Archive: Fighting Deep Fakes
From August 4, 2018: Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens when these technologies are paired with artificial intelligence to produce hyper-realistic media of things that never happene ... Show More
45m 19s
Aug 2023
"Bahnbrechende Technologien sind oft nicht neu", sagt Klemens Skibicki
"Nach 15 Jahren an der Hochschule hatte ich irgendwann genug", erzählt Klemens Skibicki. Seinen Job als Professor an der Cologne Business School in Köln hat er an den Nagel gehängt. Lehrende Berufe seien toll, aber die unternehmerischen Sachen "machen einfach so viel mehr Spaß". ... Show More
42m 10s
Feb 2023
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
Aaron Gordon, Senior Writer at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology website, talks about his co-authored article, “‘The Least Safe Day’: Rollout of Gun-Detecting AI Scanners Has Been a ‘Cluster,’ Emails Show,” with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. They also discuss Gordon ... Show More
1h 26m
Jul 2019
199. Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?
Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance, going back to tv, or telephones, or even writing letters? The new book, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Tec ... Show More
39m 29s
Dec 2021
A tech giant does its best Big Brother impersonation in 'The Every'
Author Dave Eggars has written a new book, The Every, satirizing technology and it's ever-expanding hold on us. While publishing and distributing the book, which also happens to be about a tech giant overextending its reach, he tried to keep it out of the hands of one of today's ... Show More
8m 49s