7 Minute Futures

Alejandro Mayoral Baños brings a different perspective to the questions of the podcast: the wisdom of indigenous peoples and their communal governance models. Sometimes discovering new answers for unique problems requires looking to those who have been managing relationships and resources for centuries with accumulated learnings that are still novel to us in the mainstream political world. Join me...

The second expert to be featured in 7 minute futures is Gbenga Sesan, a tech entrepreneur and digital rights activist who is working across Africa. His answers weren’t focused on a specific technology like AI or a specific right like privacy. Instead, he pointed to a force of human nature: agency. This perspective, coming from a continent experiencing explosive technological growth, signals a glob...

In this episode we hear from Daphne Keller, Director of Platform Regulation at Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology. Daphne shares her insights about the power that user choice can give back to users through new technologies like "middleware". And takes us back in time for a critical evaluation of the legislative landscape of the early internet and the precedents that shaped...

Welcome to Seven Minute Futures, the podcast where I talk to tech and society leaders about the main challenges in digital life and what we can do about them. I am Javier Pallero, digital policy and advocacy expert from Argentina. In this episode, I tell you about this podcast and invite you to join me in this journey.