Technologies Impacting Society

Founded in 2014, Looking Glass Factory Inc is headquartered in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with additional operations in Hong Kong. In 2018 the company launched the world's first desktop holographic display dev kit; in 2019, started shipping the world's first 8K light field display; and in 2020, launched Looking Glass Portrait, a personal holographic display. Today, Looking Glass Factory is building a world in which everyone from LiDAR photographers to Unity developers to Fortune 500 companies can leave Flatland and enter the third dimension.

Shawn Frayne CEO & Co-Founder 
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In this Podcast I got to speak to Dr Lukasz Porwol on the Metaverse, VR and Communication. The Metaverse is a shared virtual 3D world, or worlds, that are interactive, immersive, and collaborative. Lukasz believes that the Metaverse will revolutionize both education and communication. And that the exchange of ideas for education and understanding is at the core of civilization and the technologies around it are some of the most vital in the world.

Lukasz discusses on this podcast about the state of art headsets that we can currently expect to have ourselves within five years and how photorealistic the current virtual reality technologies currently are. He also discusses the advantages of communicating in VR over current social media communication tools and how VR can even manage to reduce our very own bias.

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In this podcast, I got to speak with Dr. Sean Healy of Social Justice Ireland. Sean is the Director of Social Justice Ireland. It was back in 2018 when we first spoke - fast forward now to 2021 and there's never been a bigger and greater need of Universal Basic Income, post Corona and with a new Data Economy emerging.

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In this podcast Prof Rob Kitchin, a professor and ERC Advanced Investigator in the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis at Maynooth University, Ireland chats about his book Slow Computing and the concept of Slow Computing. Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they do, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances.

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In this episode, I spoke to Prof Guy Standing, Guy is a British Professor of Development Studies at the University of London, he co-founded the "Basic Income Earth Network". He's also author of the book, "The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class." And he argues that Globalization has pushed more and more people into The Precariat, which he describes as "A New Emerging Class".

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In this episode, I get to speak with Alaskan-born, Dr. Markie Twist- a licensed marriage and family therapist and mental health counselor. She's also co-author of the books, The Internet Family: Technology in Couple and Family Relationships, The Couple and Family Technology Framework: Intimate Relationships in a Digital Age. We got to discuss the term Digisexuality and the impact of digital technologies are having an intimate relationships in today's digital world.

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In this podcast, I caught up with Dr. Neil McArthur, Professor of Philosophy at Manitoba University and asked him about the term Digisexual. Digisexuality is a term first introduced by Dr. Neil McArthur and Markie Twist's, 2017 Journal of Sexual & Relationship Therapy paper, 'The Rise of Digisexuality - Therapeutic Challenges & Possibilities'. A Digisexual is someone whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of Technology - so if a big part of your sexual experiences and connections with another person via things such as sexting or Skype. You're probably also a Digisexual.

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Murray Shanahan is a professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind. With a PHD from Cambridge University he has carried out work in artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive science.  Murray was a scientific advisor for the 2014 film Ex Machina. In 2017 he joined DeepMind, retaining his professorship at Imperial College on a part-time basis. 

In the podcast we spoke about John McCarthy, the son of an Irish immigrant also called John from Valentia Island in Kerry  and maybe the most important Irish American computer scientist pioneer and inventor, known as the father of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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Kenneth Cukier is a Senior Editor at The Economist, and host of its weekly podcast on technology. He is also an associate fellow at Said Business School at Oxford, researching artificial intelligence.

Kenn is the coauthor of “Big Data: A Revolution That Transforms How We Live, Work, and Think” with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. It was a NYT Bestseller translated in over 20 languages, and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. It won the National Library of China’s Wenjin Book Award and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year. Kenn coauthored a follow-on book, “Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education”

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A DAO is a network of stakeholders with no central governing body, just a set of rules encoded on a blockchain. We believe DAOs have the collaborative potential the world needs. The DAOstack project is building a modular, open-source software stack for DAOs that includes a library of governance protocols and friendly interfaces for creating and managing DAOs. DAOstack is an open source project advancing the technology and adoption of decentralised governance.To tackle today’s biggest problems, we need to coordinate around our shared values more effectively than our current systems allow. Blockchain makes a new type of organisation possible: the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO). 

Kate Beecroft is the Ecosystem Lead at DAOstack. The company and platform grew substantially including the ICO in May 2018 creation of the GEN token, the launch of the first dApp Alchemy in 2018 and Alchemy Earth. In this podcast Kate discuses DAOstack and the future of decentralised technology.

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Alaskan born Dr. Markie Twist an award-winning sexuality educator, sexologist, relationship therapist, author, and international speaker. Dr. Markie is co-author of the books, The Internet Family: Technology in Couple and Family Relationships, The Couple and Family Technology Framework: Intimate Relationships in a Digital Age. 

I caught up with Markie in this episode and discussed the multifaceted ways in which technology impacts our relationships today, and got her to explain the term Digisexuality.

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