Tech Nation with Moira Gunn
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Dr. Moira Gunn is the host of Public Radio's Tech
Nation, where she has conducted over 2,000 interviews with space pioneers
and cyber-novelists, venture capitalists and genetics researchers, teachers
and technophobes. A former NASA scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tech Museum of Innovation and
the Tech Awards' Global Leadership Council, and has served as a member
of the Awards Selection Committee for the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
University, she also holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and a
software technical patent. Dr. Gunn is regularly asked to speak on the
Impact of Technology on Society, on the Current and Projected State of
Global Technology Penetration, and on her experience as a Woman in Technology,
Science and Engineering.
Between 2004 and 2012 The Conversations Network published 748 podcast episodes
of Technation. Look for them and more-recent programs on the
Tech Nation website (http://technation.com).
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Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Gili Drori, author of "Global E-Litism...Digital Technology, Social Inequality, and Transnationality." They talk aboiut the global digital divide.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with David Magnus, the Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, who discusses the ethical concerns surrounding women who donate eggs for stem cell research, the challenges of scientific research for children, organ transplants in the age of the Internet and the technical issues driving end-of-life decisions.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tiffany Schlain, the founder of The Webby Awards. She'll lay out their current selection for the top ten momentous points in Web history, and they'll look at emergent trends in 2006. [Tech Nation audio from IT Connversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with decode Genetics' CEO, Dr. Kari Stefansson, who tells us about a new discovery, linking a single gene to significantly increased risk for Type II diabetes. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Joan Walsh, the Editor-in-Chief of Salon Magazine, one of the first on-line zines to make an impact. They look back at ten years on the web -- and how Salon made it through. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Kim Stanley Robinson, the author of the "Mars Trilogy." In his latest book, "Fifty Degrees Below" he surmises what it would be like if the Gulf Stream stopped flowing. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq and author of "Iraq Confidential" who answers, "How do you look for a weapon of mass destruction?" [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Prathima Archarya from Diosynth Biotechnology who tells us how they turn a promising molecule into a robust drug. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews John Barrow, a cosmologist and mathematician at Cambridge University. He's followed up his "Book of Nothing" and "Theories of Everything," with a new entry: "The Infinite Book...A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless." [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversatinos]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Simon Singh, the author of "Big Bang - The origin of the Universe," who tells us why he chose to explain what scientists are saying, instead of being one himeslf. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
