Future Knowledge
Episodes
The Public Domain
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do jazz, gene sequences, and the World Wide Web have in common? They all reveal what’s at stake when our cultural commons shrinks. In this epis...
What Does 1 Trillion Web Pages Sound Like?
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this special holiday episode, we’re celebrating the Internet Archive’s milestone of 1 trillion web pages archived with something a little diff...
The Open Web at a Crossroads: A Conversation with Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, Cindy Cohn & Jon Stokes
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What made the early web so thrilling, and how do we reclaim that spirit today? In this special episode, recorded at Georgetown University’s historic...
Enshittification
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term ...
Music and Copyright in the Era of Taylor Swift
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Michael Menna and Anjali Vats unpack how copyright law really works for musicians outside the mainstream. While stars like Taylo...
Building and Preserving the Web: A Conversation with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, chat with Lauren Goode of Wired about the ri...
Wayback Machine at 1 Trillion
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, the web was still young—a chaotic, creative frontier built one page at a time. That same year, the Internet Archive set out to preserve it ...
After Disruption
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Author Trevor Owens joins media scholar Shannon Mattern to discuss his book, After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory. Together, they explore ho...
Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does copyright shape the music we love—and influence how it's made, distributed, and reimagined? In this episode, Jennifer Jenkins, author of Mu...
Preserving Government Information
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Authors James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs join librarian Shari Laster to discuss their book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and F...
The Library: A Fragile History
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Authors Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen join historian Abby Smith Rumsey to discuss their acclaimed book The Library: A Fragile History—a sw...
In Through the Side Door
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Malone, author of In Through the Side Door, joins designer and writer Abby Covert for a conversation about the women who helped pioneer user expe...
Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What rights do libraries, archives, and memory institutions need to preserve our digital heritage? In this episode, we explore the "Our Future Memory"...
Averting the Digital Dark Age
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at the Internet Archive Canada in Vancouver, this discussion features historian Ian Milligan, author of Averting the Digital Dark Age, i...
The Internet Con
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Author and activist Cory Doctorow joins us to discuss The Internet Con, his call to reclaim internet control from Big Tech. From locked-down platforms...
Live Dead
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Author John Brackett (Live Dead) is joined by musician and Grateful Dead scholar David Gans to discuss how live recordings—both official and fan-mad...
The Copyright Wars
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Peter Baldwin joins copyright scholar Pamela Samuelson to unpack The Copyright Wars—a sweeping look at 300 years of trans-Atlantic copyrig...
Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Authors Joshua Levine and Tim Hwang sit down with Lila Bailey to discuss Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition. Together they explore how artific...
Future Knowledge | Podcast Trailer
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Launching in June 2025, Future Knowledge explores the intersection of technology, culture, and information policy with leading authors, scholars, and ...