The Digital Life: Recent Episodes
The Digital Life
The Digital Life is an online radio show that explores important, timely topics in the world of design and emerging technologies like genomics, robotics, and the Internet of Things.
Jon: Welcome to episode 291 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, John Follett and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: This week, we’re going to be talking about Creative Next, which is our new show debuting […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 290 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: This week, we’ll be talking about the future of education, and the business models that drive […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 289 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: This week we’ll be talking about emerging technology, the transformation it brings and the fear of […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 288 of the Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett. And with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our final show of 2018, we’re going to take a look forward into the realm […]
Jon: Welcome to Episode 287 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: This week, we’ll be talking with author and designer Cennydd Bowles about ethics and emerging technologies. […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 286 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: This week, we’re going to be talking about the future of work, the anxiety of the […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 285 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: This week we’ll be talking about the somewhat startling, scary, scientifically significant news out of Hong […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 284 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: This week we’re going to be talking about the productivity paradox, so called, which is inspired […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 283 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is Founder and Co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: This week, we’ll be talking about emerging technologies and the self. In particular, we’re gonna chat […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 282 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: This week we’ll be discussing some of the many, many, many pitfalls of predicting artificial intelligence […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 281 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett. With me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: This week we’ll be discussing the difficulties of establishing an AI code of ethics. We’ve addressed ethics […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 280 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me, is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: Our special guest this week is, Dr. Carie Little Hersh, an American cultural anthropologist, teaching professor […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 279 of the Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett. Our special guest this week is Dany DeGrave, founder of Unconventional Innovation. Dany, welcome to the show. Dany: Hey. Hello, Jonathan. Thanks for having me. Jon: We’ll […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 278 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our special guest this week is Jason Grant, CEO of Integral. Jason, welcome to the show. […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 277 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology, I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our special guest this week is Ben Nelson, the founder, chairman and CEO of Minerva, and […]
Jon: Welcome to Episode 276 of “The Digital Life,” a show about our insights into the future of innovation, design, and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our special guest this week is Pam Pederson, Principal of Innovations Early College High School […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 275 of the Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our topic this week, we’re going to chat about automation and reinventing yourself in the […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 274 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett. With me is founder and cohost, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our topic this week, we’re going to talk about humans working very tightly with artificial intelligence […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 273 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greenings, listeners. Jon: For our topic this week, we’re going to chat about the next step in art and […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 272 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our topic this week, we’re going to chat about synthetic biology, and the new categories […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 271 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our special guest today is Katja Grace from AI Impacts, whose research is focused is the […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 270 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our topic this week, we’re going to chat about the new Department of Homeland Security […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 269 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our topic this week we are going to chat a little bit about digital capitalism […]
Jon: Welcome to Episode 268 of the Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follet, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our topic this week, we’re going to chat about designing for a world of AI, […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 267 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our special guest this week is design strategist, Ben Sauer. Ben, welcome to the show. Ben: […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 266 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to take a dive back into the realm of […]
Jon: Welcome to Episode 265 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greeting listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to take a look at facial recognition software and […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 264 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to take a look at the use of gaming […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 263 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: On the podcast this week, we’ll discuss the idea of super technologies, or the combination and […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 262 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to take another look at the future of food. […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 261 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: Our special guest on the show today is returning friend Daniel Harvey, who is head of […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 260 of the Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: This week, our special guest is Noam Brown, and PhD student in computer sciences at Carnegie […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 259 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: This week on the show, our special guest is Christopher Janney of PhenomenArts, Inc. a pioneer […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 258 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to examine the latest salvos in the streaming wars […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 257 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week we’re gonna discuss the environmental price of modern technology and sustainable […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 256 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to talk about creativity and the neuroscience of improvisation. […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 255 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast topic this week, we’re going to chat a little bit about the Redwood […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 254 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast topic this week, we’re going to chat about automation, potential job losses and […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 253 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follet, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to chat about the USDA’s recent finalization of a […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 252 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to chat about what happens when you could create […]
Jon: Welcome to episode number 251 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett. And with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re gonna chat about data, our digital selves, and the […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 250 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast, our 250th episode, we’re going to discuss designing a creative culture with guest […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 249 of the Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: Today we’re going to chat about a recent study which was published in the Journal Science […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 248 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our guest this week is Brough Turner, who is the founder of netBlazr. Brough, welcome to […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 247 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and joining me today is Claire [Sun 00:00:26], a voice user interface engineer who will be chatting with me about designing VUIs. Claire just returned from the Conversational Interaction […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 246 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is Founder and Co-Host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to chat about digital citizenship. Now, what the heck […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 245 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our special guest this week is Mary Ellen Sparrow. She’s the CEO of Next Shift Robotics, […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 244 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to dig into one of my favorite topics and […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 243 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re gonna chat about water scarcity, natural resources, and design. […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 242 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: Our special guest on the show today is Dan Harvey. Dan is head of product […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 241 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to talk a little bit about policy and emerging […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 240 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week, we’re going to chat about all the new tech fun as […]
Jon: Welcome to Episode 239 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host, Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host, Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: We have a very special podcast for our first edition of 2018, one that I’m very […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 238 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and cohost Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings, listeners. Jon: So our podcast this week is going to be our last of 2017. Wow, that went […]
Jon: Welcome to episode 237 of The Digital Life, a show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I’m your host Jon Follett, and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our podcast this week we’re going to take a look back on the year and […]