Season 28 · Episode 1
S28 Ep1: SUMMER LISTENING Sir Bob Geldof — Challenging Orthodox Thinking
August 8, 202434m 51s
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Show Notes
For our special Summer Listening series, we revisit some favorite listens: episodes that cover some of the most important, and current, issues in cyber.
In this episode, Steve speaks with a guest whose focus includes human culture, behavior, and storytelling: singer/songwriter and activist Sir Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and founding member of Band Aid, famous for raising money for Ethiopian famine relief. Steve and Sir Bob discuss the effect of the Covid19 pandemic on creativity, the political turmoil facilitated by rapidly advancing digital technology, Sir Bob’s hope for fresh ideas, the courage to embrace change, and more.
Learn more about Sir Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats.
Mentioned in this episode:
In this episode, Steve speaks with a guest whose focus includes human culture, behavior, and storytelling: singer/songwriter and activist Sir Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and founding member of Band Aid, famous for raising money for Ethiopian famine relief. Steve and Sir Bob discuss the effect of the Covid19 pandemic on creativity, the political turmoil facilitated by rapidly advancing digital technology, Sir Bob’s hope for fresh ideas, the courage to embrace change, and more.
Learn more about Sir Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Pete Briquette
- Simon Crowe
- Garry Roberts
- Vladimir Putin
- Xi Jinping
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Boris Johnson
- Donald Trump
- Charles Darwin
- Sigmund Freud
- Karl Marx
- Live Aid
- Live 8
- QAnon
- Thomas Piketty
- Shoshana Zuboff
- Marshall McLuhan
- Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock
- Richard Branson
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Jack Ma
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- Winston Churchill
- Alan Brooke
- George Bernard Shaw
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Colin Wilson
- The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger
- Keith Richards
- Billie Holiday
- John Lennon
- Paul McCartney
- Paul Allen
- Steve Wozniak
- Gaia Theory
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