Join business leader, board member, and executive coach Kaye Foster and world renowned designer Ayse Birsel as they explore how we might forge uncommon allies to support the common good & deconstruct and then reconstruct our own approach to life, leadership and the things we surround ourselves with to extend our purpose & meaning. 1 Deconstruction, Reconstruction – Ayse Birsel ... Read more

More than ever people are asking, what’s real? How did this ever become an urgent question for our daily lives, a matter of ever greater disagreement and discord? Why? Today we turn to two artists whose practices provides beautiful insight into how we’re moving from truths “we hold to be self evident”, based on nature, ... Read more

Why does the American political system too often feel like a poorly designed video game: no matter what you do with the controller, nothing seems to change on screen. Responsiveness and the ability to effect change is pretty important to the design of virtual worlds; it’s absolutely essential in our actual real-world republic! This week ... Read more

Gaming platforms are the dominant media type of our era. Globally gaming generates over 150 billion USD in revenue, more the global music industry (20 billion USD) and the movie industry (45 billion USD) combined. And gaming resides at the extreme leading edge information technology — employing advancements in machine learning and agent based modeling ... Read more

From the dawn of the television and through the Mad Men era there was one media prophet to whom the world would turn: Professor Marshall McLuhan. It was McLuhan who observed that the Medium is the Message, and that electronic media would turn us all into participants in a Global Village. His 1964 book Understanding Media remains ... Read more

We convene this Friday night at a moment of liminality in America: We're on the verge of a new administration, but with as much polarization as ever. Our democracy survived (so far) an election in the midst of a social media storm and a pandemic... but our challenges are as great as any time in ... Read more

Today marks the 50th episode of our Quarantime-capsule! The Nation is struggling through a 3rd wave of a pandemic that is a harbinger from this biological century. Healthcare workers, individuals, & communities are facing a breaking point in their ability to cope with their inner landscape, and the actions they must to take to stay ... Read more

Join Alec Shuldiner @biggreenbrother from @autodesk, & Dr. Beth Coleman, author of "Hello Avatar," as the rise of the “Internet of Infrastructure” wakes up & starts to have opinions, & potentially can take action for, with, or against our citizens.  We stand at a chasm between that new form of Infrastructure & the centuries old ... Read more

You're invited to Quarantime’s Holiday Party: an evening of Urban Ephemera and Lost Landscapes. Our holiday show explores the hidden richness in forgotten films w/guests Rick Prelinger of the Prelinger Archives @footage & Lisa Hurwitz, producer of @AUTOMATmovie! Rick is the nation's leading collector and curator of ephemeral films: home movies, corporate visions of the ... Read more

Just about now America needs some pretty big ideas for economic recovery, industrial transformation, and how to tackle climate change while driving inclusive growth. Today on Quarantime! a report of the boldest approaches to economic development in our nation today, hot off the press, direct from the visionary teams creating them. 1 A Marshall Plan ... Read more

On December 25th, join Quarantime! as we revisit the dawn of virtual Christmas celebrations: the 1966 Yule Log telecast from Gracie Mansion on New York’s WPIX. Long before America went virtual in 2020, New Yorkers knew their only option for a Christmas fireplace was a cathode-ray tube. We turn to the archives this holiday and ... Read more