Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, talks about the blunders of urban planners and how better cities depend a whole lot on a smarter approach to parking.
We talk with Sima Sistani, the CEO of Weight Watchers, about applying her previous careers in social media to the company’s efforts to build a digital community.
We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer.
We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn’t necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology.