Exponential With Amanda Lang Podcast

Joseph Aoun explains how higher education must offer opportunities/courses that will impact the learner positively in a robotic world

Joseph Aoun says we must adapt our educational curriculums to artificial intelligence

Joseph Aoun helps walk us through our Cognitive capacities (the human qualities that computers cannot apply…yet)

Amanda Lang talks with Joseph Aoun, North Eastern University President, author of the book “Robot Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Joseph Aoun explains what is Exponential Learning?

Stephen Poloz talks about how a hot housing market and possible trade war, leaves for many tough decisions for Canada moving forward

Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada, has strong views of the rhetoric around global trade and trade wars in general

Angel Gurria, Head of the OECD, talks about how when critiquing the different economies around the globe, it’s all about the facts

Bill Morneau, Canada’s Finance Minister, discusses how the conversation at the G7 was hijacked by “tariff talk”

Barry talks about how he helps people and organizations apply change

Dan talks more about ‘Behavioral Economics’ and how we’re not actually in control of our own decisions

Dan Arielly, Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight, explains why we are “naturally” resistant to change…and the behaviors we exercise to stay away from change

Amanda Lang sits down with Barry Pokroy, Partner at Farber and co-founder of Circle and Square. Barry talks about our psychological weaknesses as human beings…and how we often resist change; good and bad

Canada is a world leader in quantum Mechanics, how do we retain that momentum?

Where does religion fit into the field of theoretical physics?

What draws people to the world of theoretical physics?

What is Theoretical Physics? Neil Turok - South African physicist, and the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, walks Amanda through it all

Is the success of these programs/bonds solely attached to private market investment/interest? Who receives the windfall and who gets left out?

Ontario has dabbled in Social Impact bonds. Who should fund and run such programs? Government or private funding?

Most of the investors involved are philanthropic by nature

What is a Social Impact Bond? Its purpose? The costs involved…and the justification for that cost. Amanda Lang talks with Nadine Pequeneza - Director/Producer of the film titled “The Invisible Heart”. Delving into the complex and unorthodox marriage of charity and capitalism with the use of Social Impact Bonds