Lee Rollins's guest appearances

Lee Rollins

Festival of Dangerous Ideas

UNSW Centre for Ideas

Chuck Klosterman

Ashton Applewhite

Pankaj Mishra

Stephen Fry

Thomas Piketty

Paul Bloom

Rutger Bregman

Rowan Williams

Julia Gillard

Daniel Dennett

Kate Devlin

Angela Saini

Angela Nagle

Germaine Greer

Megan Phelps-Roper

OwlTail

Haris Aziz

Khandis Blake

Rob Brooks

Martina Stenzel

What we don’t understand often looks dangerous, and the barriers of our own anxieties are hard to get over. The incomprehensible power of new and complex technologies see us pull back in fear. What seem like the freakish sexual and social mores of others generate moral panic. Both of these reactions stop us from thinking – so maybe if we want to be able to deal with change, we need to dive into what seems dangerous, from algorithms and quantum computing to sexy selfies.Chaired by Rob Brooks, UNSW Professor of Evolution, Director of the Evolution &amp; Ecology Research Centre.This talk is part of the UNSW Grand Challenge program, and was recorded live on stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2018.

What we don’t understand often looks dangerous, and the barriers of our own anxieties are hard to get over. The incomprehensible power of new and complex technologies see us pull back in fear. What seem like the freakish sexual and social mores of others generate moral panic. Both of these reactions stop us from thinking – so maybe if we want to be able to deal with change, we need to dive into what seems dangerous, from algorithms and quantum computing to sexy selfies.<br><br>Chaired by Rob Brooks, UNSW Professor of Evolution, Director of the Evolution &amp; Ecology Research Centre.<br><br>This talk is part of the UNSW Grand Challenge program, and was recorded live on stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2018.

Haris Aziz, Khandis Blake, Rob Brooks, Lee Rollins and Martina Stenzel: Fight the fear