The future of AI, myths about the creative brain, and the history of the Commodore 64: A compilation of podcast interviews with our authors
With winter rearing its ugly head, readers everywhere are on the hunt for their next book—or their next listen. Lucky for you, we’ve collected links to some wonderful podcast conversations with MIT Press authors from the year to keep you entertained and informed during your end-of-year travels and post-holiday deep cleans. Listen on below, and sign up for our newsletter to hear more about our books and journals.
Todd Stern, author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement
Featured on Newstalk’s Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
Greg Epstein, author of Tech Agnostic
Featured on Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast; Politico’s Tech podcast; PBS’s Closer to Truth; and NPR affiliate WBUR’s Morning Edition
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, author of The Cities We Need
Featured on New Books Network’s New Books in Urban Studies podcast
Gary Marcus, author of Taming Silicon Valley
Featured on the Marketplace Tech podcast
Anna Abraham, author of The Creative Brain
Featured on the Closer to Truth podcast
Thomas Mullaney, author of The Chinese Computer
Featured on the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) podcast
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, editor of The Inhumans and Other Stories
Featured on New Books Network’s New Books in Science Fiction podcast
Payal Arora, author of From Pessimism to Promise
Featured on the On the Way to New Work podcast
Lisa Yaszek, editor of The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories
Featured on New Books Networks’ New Books In Science Fiction podcast
Jesper Juul, author of Too Much Fun
Featured on the Codex: History of Video Games podcast
Jon Peterson, author of Playing at the World, The Elusive Shift, and Game Wizards
Featured on Jason Alexander’s Really, No Really?
James K. Rilling, author of Father Nature
Featured on Radio New Zealand
Elizabeth L. Block, author of Beyond Vanity
Featured on Pretty Curious with Jonathan Van Ness; The Gilded Gentleman podcast; and the Volume Up podcast by The Tease
Anna Von Mertens, author of Attention is Discovery
Featured on the Lost Women of Science podcast
Richard E. Cytowic, author of Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age
Featured on Forbes’s Knowledge Mindfulness Porch podcast; the Groks Science Radio Show podcast; the Unsiloed podcast; and the Wealthability podcast with Tom Wheelwright
Salvatore J. Agosta, coauthor of A Darwinian Survival Guide
Featured on The Show from KJZZ, Phoenix’s NPR station
Terry Sejnowski, author of ChatGPT and the Future of AI
Featured on the Huberman Lab podcast and NPR affiliate KPCW’s Cool Science Radio
Ravin Jesuthasan, coauthor of The Skills-Powered Organization
Featured on the Unmistakable Creative podcast
James Boyle, author of The Line
Featured on the Artificiality podcast
John E. Moores, coauthor of Daydreaming in the Solar System
Featured on NPR affiliate KPCW’s Cool Science Radio