Future Human
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
26: If you build it, they will cloud
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the last 22 years, David Neilson has studied light. As Group Leader for Optical Transmission at Nokia Bell Labs, he’s seen the development of fi...
25: Simple and smart
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Budapest-based Péter Szilágyi, a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs, thinks that despite the great technical advances we’v...
24: Thinking for two
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nokia Bell Labs researcher Sean Kennedy helps de-mystify Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, utilizing lessons from behavioral psychologist ...
23: Old Wires, New Tricks
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With so much focus on wireless and 5G, it's easy to disregard the massive wired infrastructure that runs through our cities and encircles our homes. B...
22: Miguel Nicolelis’s Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Presented in its entirety, here is the Shannon Luminary Lecture by Miguel Nicolelis, founder and co-director of the Duke Universit...
21: The kick heard around the world
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the opening of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, 1 billion viewers watched as a paraplegic young man walked on to the field with the ass...
20: Better signals, better people
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As remote work becomes the new norm in the face of our ongoing health crisis, we explore the technologies that enable us to stay productive and connec...
19: The Loneliest Competition In The World
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Vendee Globe – an around-the-world, solo sailing competition – is considered one of the most grueling sporting events of the modern age. As su...
18: Reeps One Meets Reeps Two
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
So skilled is Harry Yeff - better known as champion beatboxer Reeps One - at his craft that he’s prompted one neuroscientist to note: “[he] can ma...
17: The Future of AI and Human Society
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Presented in its entirety, here is the Shannon Luminary Lecture from Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a data scientist and serial entrepreneur who directs t...
16: Better Data Through Diversity
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Pentland, who directs the Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs at MIT, has been called “one of the seven most powerful data scientists in...
15: The future of cancer prevention
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Presented in its entirety, here is the full Shannon Luminary Lecture from Dr. Benjamin Ebert – a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and...
14: Engineering Better Cancer Outcomes
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cancer research is at an inflection point. While the disease is poised to overtake heart disease as the leading cause of death this century, massive s...
13: The future of the internet of things - Vint Cerf
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Presented in its entirety, please enjoy the full Shannon Luminary Lecture from Vint Cerf – Google’s Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, ...
12: The Internet of Common Sense
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Vint Cerf talks, people listen. Whether it’s because he had a hand in creating the first commercial email system or co-developed the TCP/IP pro...
11: I Know What You Did This Summer
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If – like me – your high school/college summers were filled with menial office work, flipping burgers or babysitting, well, you did it wrong. In t...
10: Stalking BHAGS
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Nokia Bell Labs launched their own Prize competition in 2014, its goal was simple but audacious: they were seeking proposals that ‘change the g...
Bonus Episode: The Artists In Residence Exhibit Opens!
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of the first major exhibition of NEW INC's artists' collaboration with Bell Labs researchers, Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and CTO...
9: Go Where You Are Rare
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Our ability to share emotions at a distance using technology is non-existent, and we’re trying to build those aspects into what we do” – Domh...
8: Stephen Fry’s Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Presented in its entirety, please bask in the tour de force that is Stephen Fry’s Nokia Bell Lab’s Shannon Luminary Lecture. If you haven’t alre...
7: Stephen Fry’s Curious Mind
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Actor, author, activist, playwright and student of technology Stephen Fry – a wryly self-described ‘all round national treasure’ – gives us a ...
6: Stephen Friend’s Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to present the full Shannon Luminary Series lecture by renowned cancer researcher Stephen Friend: “The Future of Human Agency: Explo...
5: A Friend’s Warning
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Revered cancer researcher Stephen Friend has a message: not only do we need to take more agency in our own healthcare, beyond the “priestly experts”...
4: The Humane Brain
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Claude Shannon. “Father of the Information Age.” Inveterate tinkerer. Restless polymath. His work made digital computing possible. Yet he refused ...
3: Ceremony and Ubiquity
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The latest chapter of the Bell Labs relaunch of Experiments In Art and Technology – E.A.T., a 50-years long collaboration between artists and engine...
2: Kindred Spirits In Sound
25 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Future Human takes us from one of the world’s quietest rooms – Bell Labs’ anechoic chamber – into the voluminous history of so...
1: E.A.T. Then And Now
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Future Human, an exploration into the human potential of technology. In the series debut, we examine the origins of E.A.T. (Experiments in ...
Coming Soon: Future Human
25 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Future Human, an exploration into the human potential of technology. Much of the technology we take for granted has been hatched over decad...