Lee Vinsel

Lee Vinsel

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6 Interviews

Lee Vinsel's Interviews

Lee Vinsel & Eric Hintz 13 Feb 2023 • EN

American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D

Eric Hintz, a historian and fellowship coordinator with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, talks about his book, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The two dis

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Lee Vinsel & Daniel Greene 04 Feb 2023 • EN

The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”

Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The Promise of Access examines how the “digital divide” became a policy problem, and draws

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Lee Vinsel & Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra 19 Jan 2023 • EN

Automating Finance

Sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, a professor at University of California San Diego, talks about his book Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book traces the long, largely anonymous, and in some senses boring history of how e

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Lee Vinsel & Hanna Rose Shell 18 Jan 2023 • EN

Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History

Historian Hanna Rose Shell, a professor at University of Colorado, Boulder, talks about her book Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. Along the way, Shell raises a number of important and interesting things, including the long history of reuse and recycling and how

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Lee Vinsel & Meredith Whittaker 14 Jan 2023 • EN

The Politics of Digital Technology

Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her r

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Lee Vinsel & Meredith Broussard 13 Jan 2023 • EN

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

Data journalist Meredith Broussard talks about her book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book how artificial intelligence systems do and don’t work and why people have come to have such unrealistic understandings of the technologies’ capabilit

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