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David Ryan Polgar
Contributing Writer
David is an ambidextrous thinker who likes big ideas. As a “Tech Ethicist,” he explores our evolving relationship with social media and tech from an ethical, legal, and emotional perspective. Utilizing his background as an attorney, educator, and pop culture aficionado, David offers a fresh perspective on potential trends and ways to humanize our digital lives. He is currently a speaker (3-time TEDx), branding and communications consultant, and Trust & Safety for social messaging platform Friendbase. David is researching the impact that “scaling intimacy” has on human relationships, and working on an upcoming book. He is also the co-host for Funny as Tech.
He can be contacted at TechEthicist.com and @TechEthicist.
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Research being done with brain organoids ("mini brains" deriving from cells, such as teeth) from those with autism and Williams syndrome is providing insight into what makes humans social.
Can big data help determine how happy we are? Using findings from Facebook and UC Berkeley, author Andrew Zolli shows how the levels of happiness we display online may not correlate with how happy we truly are. Featuring Zolli's talk from the Aspen Ideas Festival.
A Japanese company is laying off 34 workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence based on IBM's Watson Explorer. While advancing automation may be helpful in alleviating Japan's aging and declining population, what does this mean for other workers across the globe?
Researchers at the American Chemical Society examine whether or not cough medicine has scientific merit.
The average worker sends and receives over 120 emails every day, and many employees are stressed from late night and weekend work emails. France recently created a "Right to Disconnect" from the neverending emails. Will it work?
Is Facebook making you unhappy? A recent Danish study found that a one-week break from Facebook had positive effects concerning life satisfaction and increasing positive emotions.
Got Milk? If you are holding a carton of Soymilk you don't. Right now there is a battle over what can be defined as milk, and what can't be. With milk sales going down and plant-based beverage sales going up, it could be an all-out war.