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Quantum Computers: Something and Nothing, All at Once
Quantum Computers: Something and Nothing, All at Once
InSight set to touch down for mission on Mars
InSight set to touch down for mission on Mars
The Anxiety of Smart Cities: How Technology Moves People
The Anxiety of Smart Cities: How Technology Moves People
Our Responsibility Towards Creation
Our Responsibility Towards Creation

DISCOVER Nextcasts

Presented by swissnex San Francisco, nextcasts is a platform to share conversations with the interesting people we connect with, and ideas on the forces shaping the emergent future.

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storytelling & interaction

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From the Gallery Floor to the Sea Floor: A Conversation with Marie Griesmar
From the Gallery Floor to the Sea Floor: A Conversation with Marie Griesmar
The Future is Sweet: Meet Erika Marthins
The Future is Sweet: Meet Erika Marthins
The Whimsical Side of SciComm, with “Daisy and Chloé”
The Whimsical Side of SciComm, with “Daisy and Chloé”
Game Changers: EverdreamSoft on Blockchain Gaming
Game Changers: EverdreamSoft on Blockchain Gaming
Meet Jason Reinier, listener
Meet Jason Reinier, listener
The disk drive is your DNA
The disk drive is your DNA
Meet Tanja Coray, Science Communicator
Meet Tanja Coray, Science Communicator
7 Tips for Communicating Climate Change
7 Tips for Communicating Climate Change
Artists Mount (Virtual) Guerrilla Exhibition at SFMOMA
Artists Mount (Virtual) Guerrilla Exhibition at SFMOMA
When robots go to art school
When robots go to art school

Intelligent machines

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Empathy vs. the Machines: Jodi Halpern & Jonathon Keats
Empathy vs. the Machines: Jodi Halpern & Jonathon Keats
The disk drive is your DNA
The disk drive is your DNA
Taking Updates Personally
Taking Updates Personally
!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Art is a Hack
!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Art is a Hack
Bots Will Break Your Heart
Bots Will Break Your Heart
When robots go to art school
When robots go to art school

Empathy vs. the machines

How can art, philosophy, and empathy help us prepare for the next wave of technology? We spoke with Dr. Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and Jonathon Keats, the principal artist behind Mental Work, whom The Atlantic has called a “multimedia philosopher-prophet.”

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Energy & Environment

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From the Gallery Floor to the Sea Floor: A Conversation with Marie Griesmar
From the Gallery Floor to the Sea Floor: A Conversation with Marie Griesmar
Green Energy on the 'Edge': Meet Houssem Ben Mahfoudh 
Green Energy on the 'Edge': Meet Houssem Ben Mahfoudh 
Design Thinking and New Business Ecosystems with Michael Lewrick
Design Thinking and New Business Ecosystems with Michael Lewrick
Meet Juanita Schläpfer-Miller, artist and science communicator
Meet Juanita Schläpfer-Miller, artist and science communicator
Meet Jason Reinier, listener
Meet Jason Reinier, listener
Home is Leaving: The Emotions of Climate Change
Home is Leaving: The Emotions of Climate Change
The Wildflower Super Bloom Moves to a City Near You
The Wildflower Super Bloom Moves to a City Near You
7 Tips for Communicating Climate Change
7 Tips for Communicating Climate Change
Three Learnings for the Era of Free Electrons
Three Learnings for the Era of Free Electrons

Structures of Society 

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The Anxiety of Smart Cities: How Technology Moves People
The Anxiety of Smart Cities: How Technology Moves People
Design Thinking and New Business Ecosystems with Michael Lewrick
Design Thinking and New Business Ecosystems with Michael Lewrick
8 Learnings for Swiss Start-ups in Silicon Valley
8 Learnings for Swiss Start-ups in Silicon Valley
The Future of Digital Health
The Future of Digital Health
Blockchain for Social Good
Blockchain for Social Good
Peer to Peer Healing: Rethinking Clinics with Cassie Thornton
Peer to Peer Healing: Rethinking Clinics with Cassie Thornton
Transcending Debt: Meet the Feminist Economics Department
Transcending Debt: Meet the Feminist Economics Department
Back to the City
Back to the City
A Less Cryptic Crypto, Care of the Swiss
A Less Cryptic Crypto, Care of the Swiss
Forging a Swiss Lens: 3 Ways Zurich Changed My View of Silicon Valley
Forging a Swiss Lens: 3 Ways Zurich Changed My View of Silicon Valley
 
 
 
 
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We’re co-hosting “The Social Implications of Robotics” meetup, with @hivedata : an all-women panel on the future of human-machine interaction. • • From left: Cynthia Yeung, CafeX; Erin Rapacki, Machine Inbound; Tessa Lau, Dusty Robotics; Marta Bulaich, Ridge Ventures; Joann Heberer, TauTona Group; and Emina Reissinger of swissnex San Francisco. #robotics #tech #womenintech #futureofwork
We’re at #CES19 with @houseofswitzerland, @prohelvetia and @digitalswitzerland and showing off #SwissTech at the Swiss Pavilion @ces is “the world’s gathering place” to preview the next wave of consumer technologies, and Switzerland is well represented: from #swissgames to the latest in #fintech, life sciences, IT and #drones. More to come!
Tonight’s #SciComm Studio explored the research behind cannabis, from its biological effects to how research can be used to create sensible drug policies — while cutting through the ideological fog. Serafina Calarco, PhD candidate at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bern, presented an outline of what research tells us about the body’s endocannabinoid system. Larissa J. Maier, an @swissnationalsciencefoundation -funded postdoc at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (@ucsf) shared a global view of attitudes and policies toward cannabis, regulation, and treatment options across the world. Not pictured: Laura Herrera, of @oaksterdamuniversity, who gave us an introduction to the United States’ first cannabis-focused trade school, sharing insights into the cannabis industry in California.
Tonight we’re hosting an event with @ethzurich exploring the future of #pharma — specifically, the role #AI might play in drug design and discovery. Hosted by Chris Luebkeman of Arup Foresight, with Gisbert Schneider, ETHZ Chair for Computer-Assisted Drug Design; Jasmin Fisher, Principal Researcher at @msft_research, Jennifer Listgarten of @ucb_eecs, Norman Sieroka, Turing Center Zurich & ETHZ, and Robert Goodnow of Pharmaron. #eth2cal
The swissnex Salon comes to an end this week, having hosted workshops, panel discussions, artists, scientists, policy makers, technologists to consider the impact of technology on the fundamental values of democratic societies. The backdrop of these conversations and festivities was provided in the form of curtains designed by Swiss architects @neledechmann and #Ortreport, “Instant Space,” intended to create versatile and flexible arrangements for conversations, workshops and performances. Photos by @astratakesphotos for swissnex SF.
“Ethical Innovation: Move Fast and Break Nothing” kicking off tonight with Ethix, the Institute for the Future, staatslabor and the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Together we’re exploring toolkit’s for ensuring ethical innovation.
Tonight from 6.30pm PST: join us to explore the future of #humanrights under the lens of AI via live stream from #Pier17, presented with the @swissconsulate_sf #SwissTouch - see link in bio.
We’re thankful to all the #scientists and #engineers who dedicate their lives to exploring the deep unknown to find answers to the big questions like how did our #solarsystem form and change over time, and what made #Earth so special that it can support life. Pictured here are the international team leads behind the @nasainsight mission to Mars at the @nasajpl pre-landing media conference, which is set for #MarsLanding on Monday and has #Swiss technology onboard. This is the first Mars mission that will look beneath the Martian surface to gather seismic data and its temperature. #Mars #science #nasainsight #Nasa