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:

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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