Where's My Free Lunch
Explore the hidden costs of "free" digital services and open-source resources, examining their sustainability and potential long-term consequences for users and the tech industry.
Why I'm Not Leaving .NET
Explore the enduring strengths of .NET and why it remains a compelling platform for developers, despite criticisms and alternatives in the programming landscape.
Keynote - Are There Any Questions?
Exploring the evolution of human inquiry and its intersection with technology, from mechanical calculators to AI, and the implications for our future relationship with machines.
Serverless - The Brief Past, the Bewildering Present, and the Beautiful (?) Future
Explore serverless computing's evolution, current state, and future challenges. Gain insights into industry trends, adoption hurdles, and potential developments in this rapidly growing field.
Welcome to the Machine - Hadi Hariri
Explore the impact of big data, AI, and social media on information flow and personal privacy, examining potential risks and societal implications.
Read and Write Considered Harmful
Explore the potential drawbacks of traditional reading and writing methods, and discover alternative approaches to information processing and communication.
The Web That Never Was
Explore an alternate history of the web without Microsoft, Google, or JavaScript. Discover how different decisions could have shaped a vastly different digital landscape and software industry.
Versioning
Explore the complexities of software versioning, its impact on users, and strategies to navigate challenges in library and framework updates.
Tabs, Spaces and Salaries - A Data Science Detective Story
Uncover the mystery behind developer salaries and indentation preferences in this data science investigation, exploring correlations, biases, and model fitting pitfalls.
We Are the Guardians of Our Future
Explore the ethical implications of AI development and its potential societal impact, drawing parallels to dystopian scenarios from popular culture and literature.
Elections - Trust and Critical Infrastructure
Explore the critical role of election systems as infrastructure, examining trust issues and security challenges in modern democracies. Learn valuable insights applicable to other vital societal systems.
Introduction to Election Security
Explore critical aspects of election security, including infrastructure challenges, trust issues, and potential solutions applicable to other vital societal systems.
Unintended Consequences
Explore how innovations shape the world in unexpected ways, with historian Edward Tenner illustrating the gap between innovation and foresight through compelling stories.
Social Animal
Explore cognitive science insights on human nature, challenging individual-centric views and revealing implications for economics, politics, and self-understanding.
Can Democracy Exist Without Trust?
Explore the impact of five major revolutions on political culture and democracy, examining how progress has paradoxically eroded trust in democratic institutions.
Is War Between China and the US Inevitable?
Graham Allison explores the historical pattern of "Thucydides's Trap" to analyze potential conflict between a rising China and dominant US, offering insights on avoiding violent collision through common sense and courage.
What Commercialization Is Doing to Cannabis
Explore the unseen impacts of cannabis commercialization, focusing on THC potency and industry profits. Gain insights into the complexities of marijuana legalization and its societal implications.
What Will Humans Look Like in 100 Years?
Explore the ethics and possibilities of human evolution through genetic engineering, neuroengineering, and prosthetics to adapt for space exploration and future environments.
Watson, Jeopardy and Me - The Obsolete Know-It-All
Ken Jennings humorously recounts his experience competing against IBM's Watson supercomputer on Jeopardy, exploring the future of human knowledge in the age of artificial intelligence.
Fifty Shades of Gay
Photographer explores LGBTQ spectrum through 2,000 portraits, challenging binary views of sexuality and highlighting the complexities of gender identity and sexual orientation.
The Good News of the Decade
Discover unreported global progress as Hans Rosling uses stunning visuals to reframe UN data, revealing positive trends and debunking flawed statistical approaches in this eye-opening presentation.