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Nobody Says Good Morning to a Shovel. Should You Say It to Your AI? | A Random and Unscripted Conversation with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
A TechCrunch report says Anthropic's usage policy now includes a new prohibition against prolonged verbal abuse of its AI model, and Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli ask what that means for the way people talk to the tools they use every day.
Deadly Bytes: A Book About a Serial Killer, His AI, and a Reflection on Giving Away Our Judgment | A Conversation With Author Douglas J. Wood
A few months ago I talked with thriller writer Douglas J. Wood about his novel Deadly Bytes. A serial killer builds an AI to stay one step ahead of the FBI, and by the end he can't make a move without it. Wood described that slide in a way that had nothing to do with murder.
Taking Technology for What It Is, and Let's Stop Humanizing AI
I recorded this one walking uphill through a Tokyo alley. It was night, the alley was narrow, and the street was going uphill. Just me and a small camera. It points where I point it. It records what's in front of it. It focuses, it adjusts to the dark, and when the battery dies, it stops. It doesn't pretend to listen.
An imperfect drink with a perfect story. My reflections from Black Hat USA 2026 | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — An Audio Newsletter by Marco Ciappelli
On day two we decided to go record our recap at the Black Hat bar. We got there too late to get a drink. The expo floor was closing, and the bartender must have had better things to do. Or another bar to tend, somewhere in a city that has more bars than it has hours. They called it a bar. At that time of the afternoon
Tech Trailblazers: Recognition That Reaches the Whole Team | An Interview with Rose Ross | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
Fifteen years ago, Rose Ross brought a client an idea for an awards program built specifically for enterprise tech startups. The client passed. She built it herself — and the Tech Trailblazers have been running ever since, independent, judged by practitioners, and open for entries until 3 September.
Book: Deep Future — Creating Technology That Matters | An Interview with Pablos Holman | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
PODCAST EPISODE | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli Pablos Holman has built spaceships, zapped malaria-carrying mosquitoes with a laser, earned thousands of patents, and is now betting his venture capital on the inventors Silicon Valley forgot to fund. His new book, *Deep Future: Creating Technolog
New Book: Climate Capital — Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future | An Interview with Tom Chi | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
Marco Ciappelli interviews Tom Chi, Google X Founding Member, Inventor & Venture Capitalist, Author of Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future, for An Analog Brain In A Digital Age Podcast.
New Book! Lost in Time — Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge | Forgotten Technology, Ancient Wisdom & Digital Amnesia | An Interview with Jack R. Bialik | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli
What if the answers to our biggest challenges aren't ahead of us — but behind us, buried in the 98.4% of human history we've lost? Marco Ciappelli interviews Jack R. Bialik, Author of Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge, for An Analog Brain In A Digital Age Podcast.
Chat Control: The EU Law That Could End Privacy and Why Breaking Encryption Won't Stop Criminals | A Conversation with Cybersecurity Expert John Salomon | Redefining Society and Technology Podcast with Marco Ciappelli
Cybersecurity veteran John Morgan Salomon dismantles the arguments behind "Chat Control" and similar encryption-breaking laws. In our Hybrid Analog Digital Society, privacy isn't about hiding — it's about democratic survival. When governments can read your thoughts, the targets aren't just terrorists. They're anyone wh
AI Art vs Human Creativity — The Real Difference and why AI Cannot Be An Artist | A Conversation with AI Expert Andrea Isoni, PhD, Chief AI Officer, AI speaker | Redefining Society and Technology with Marco Ciappelli
Chief AI Officer Andrea Isoni challenges the notion that AI can replace human creativity. Drawing from Renaissance workshops to modern kitchens, he argues AI is an assistant, never an artist. In our Hybrid Analog Digital Society, the "last touch" — that deeply human refinement — remains irreplaceable.
CES 2026 Recap | AI, Robotics, Quantum, And Renewable Energy: The Future Is More Practical Than You Think | A Conversation with CTA Senior Director and Futurist Brian Comiskey | Redefining Society and Technology with Marco Ciappelli
CTA Senior Director and Futurist Brian Comiskey delivers a comprehensive CES 2026 debrief. With 148,000 attendees and 4,100 exhibitors, this year's show revealed where technology meets humanity: AI use cases maturing beyond hype, humanoid robots gaining dexterity, quantum innovation accelerating, and energy solutions p
CES 2026: Why NVIDIA's Jensen Huang Won IEEE Medal of Honor | A Conversation with Mary Ellen Randall, IEEE's 2026 President and CEO | Redefining Society and Technology with Marco Ciappelli
Jensen Huang Just Won IEEE's Highest Honor. The Reason Tells Us Everything About Where Tech Is Headed. IEEE announced Jensen Huang as its 2026 Medal of Honor recipient at CES this week. The NVIDIA founder joins a lineage stretching back to 1917—over a century of recognizing people who didn't just advance technology, bu
Nothing Has Changed in Cybersecurity Since the 80s — And That's the Real Problem | A Conversation with Steve Mancini | Redefining Society and Technology with Marco Ciappelli
Dr. Steve Mancini, cybersecurity professor, Homeland Security veteran, and Honorary Italian Consul in Pittsburgh, challenges the myth of constant technological evolution. From War Games to ChatGPT, the principles of cyber threats remain unchanged—but our over-reliance on technology is making us more vulnerable. In this
Author Kate O'Neill's Book "What Matters Next": AI, Meaning, and Why We Can't Delegate Creativity | Redefining Society and Technology with Marco Ciappelli
Author and tech strategist Kate O'Neill joins Marco to explore her new book "What Matters Next," examining why meaning-making is fundamentally human and how leaders can harness AI without delegating creativity to algorithms. In our Hybrid Analog Digital Society, the challenge isn't whether to use AI—it's ensuring we re
Lo-Fi Music and the Art of Imperfection — When Technical Limitations Become Creative Liberation | Analog Minds in a Digital World: Part 2 | Musing On Society And Technology Newsletter | Article Written By Marco Ciappelli
Lo-Fi Music and the Art of Imperfection — When Technical Limitations Become Creative Liberation | Analog Minds in a Digital World: Part 2 This newsletter series will explore the tensions, paradoxes, and possibilities of being fundamentally analog beings in an increasingly digital world. We're not just using technology;
We Have All the Information, So Why Do We Know Less? | Analog Minds in a Digital World: Part 1 | Musing On Society And Technology Newsletter | Article Written By Marco Ciappelli
This newsletter series will explore the tensions, paradoxes, and possibilities of being fundamentally analog beings in an increasingly digital world. We're not just using technology; we're being reshaped by it while simultaneously reshaping it with our deeply human, analog sensibilities.
The First Smartphone Was a Transistor Radio — How a Tiny Device Rewired Youth Culture and Predicted Our Digital Future | Musing On Society And Technology Newsletter | Article Written By Marco Ciappelli
This 1950s Device Was Actually the First Smartphone — And It Changed Everything Before smartphones, social media, and digital revolution, there was the transistor radio - the device that accidentally created the first personal media bubble and changed youth culture forever.
From Broadcasting to AI Agents: Mark Smith on Technology's 100-Year Evolution at IBC 2025 Amsterdam | On Location Event Coverage Podcast With Sean Martin & Marco Ciappelli
I had a fascinating conversation with Mark Smith from IBC's board about how media technology is evolving at their Amsterdam event. From AI-powered production tools to content provenance systems, we explored how innovation is reshaping our relationship with media in our Hybrid Analog Digital Society, where authenticity
Teaser | Why Electric Vehicles Need an Apollo Program: The Renewable Energy Infrastructure Reality We're Ignoring | A Conversation with Mats Larsson | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli | Read by Tape3
Swedish business consultant Mats Larsson reveals why electric vehicle transition requires Apollo program-scale government investment. We explore the massive infrastructure gap between EV ambitions and reality, from doubling power generation to training electrification architects. This isn't about building better cars—i
Why Electric Vehicles Need an Apollo Program: The Renewable Energy Infrastructure Reality We're Ignoring | A Conversation with Mats Larsson | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli
Swedish business consultant Mats Larsson reveals why electric vehicle transition requires Apollo program-scale government investment. We explore the massive infrastructure gap between EV ambitions and reality, from doubling power generation to training electrification architects. This isn't about building better cars—i
We're Becoming Dumb and Numb: Why Black Hat 2025's AI Hype Is Killing Cybersecurity -- And Our Ability to Think | Random and Unscripted Weekly Update with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
Sean and Marco expose Black Hat 2025's AI marketing problem on Random and Unscripted: every vendor claimed "agentic AI" while CISOs couldn't tell them apart. Using the Greek myth of Talos, they warn we're surrendering decision-making to imperfect systems, creating echo chambers that make us "dumb and numb" to reality.
Creative Storytelling in the Age of AI: When Machines Learn to Dream and the Last Stand of Human Creativity | A Conversation with Maury Rogow | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli
I sat across - metaversically speaking - from Maury Rogow, a man who's lived three lives—tech executive, Hollywood producer, storytelling evangelist—and watched him grapple with the same question haunting creators everywhere: Are we teaching our replacements to dream? In our latest conversation on Redefining Society an
From Black Hat to Black Sabbath / Ozzy: AI Agents and Guitars (again!) + Entry Level Cybersecurity Jobs, Robots Evolution, and the Weekly Recap You Didn’t Expect | Random and Unscripted Weekly Update with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin are back with another random and unscripted weekly recap—from pre-Black Hat buzz and AI agents to vintage wood guitars, talent gaps, and Glen Miller debates. This week’s reflection hits tech, music, and philosophy in all the right ways. Tune in, ramble with us, and subscribe.
How to Hack Global Activism with Tech, Music, and Purpose: A Conversation with Michael Sheldrick, Co-Founder of Global Citizen and Author of the book: “From Ideas to Impact” | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli
Michael Sheldrick returns to Redefining Society and Technology to share how Global Citizen has mobilized billions in aid and inspired millions through music, tech, and collective action. From social media activism to systemic change, this conversation explores how creativity and innovation can fuel a global movement fo