Unfinished Live
Technology & Humanity
November 24, 2020
7:00pm ET
Is technology driving progress or chaos?
We explore this question with technologists, impact leaders, changemakers, artists and YOU.
- Person on the street interviews: Voices on the opportunities and challenges of technology
- Finished//Unfinished with Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology) & Manoush Zomorodi (TED Radio Hour)
- Artist/technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin
- Interview with Andrew Yang (Humanity Forward) & Vivian Schiller (Aspen Digital)
- Meet Sharon Terry (Genetic Alliance)
- Pussy Riot’s Anti Surveillance Makeup Tutorial
- Roundtable Conversation with Meredith Whittaker (AI Now), Rashad Robinson (Color of Change) & moderated by Ina Fried (Axios)
- Exploring the work of Jen Pahlka (Code for America)
- Youth filmmakers’ perspective on technology
- Meet Jerry Rosenblum, a 98 year old Instagrammer
- Insights from media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson
- The musical stylings of Shimon Robot and Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology
With Unfinished partner, Aspen Ideas, we stitch together live segments, dynamic films and provoking performances to showcase lived experience, creative expression, and real-world candor. Through conversations, exchanges and roundtable discussions, experts join everyday voices on a nuanced exploration of possibility and discovery. Thank you for joining us!

Baratunde Thurston, Host
Writer, Artist, Activist

Manoush Zomorodi
Host, TED Radio Hour at NPR & Founder, Stable Genius Productions

Tristan Harris
Co-founder & President, Center for Humane Technology

Andrew Yang
Founder, Humanity Forward

Ina Fried
Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios

Rashad Robinson
President, Color Of Change

Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Artist & Senior Technical Training Specialist, Contentful

Meredith Whittaker
Co-founder & Co-director, AI Now Institute, NYU

Nadya Tolokonnikova
Political activist & Founding Member, Pussy Riot

Vivian Schiller
Executive Director, Aspen Digital, Aspen Institute

Gil Weinberg
Professor and Director, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology

Jennifer Pahlka
Founder, Code for America

Lynn Hershman Leeson
Artist & Filmmaker

Sharon Terry
CEO, Genetic Alliance

Shimon the Robot
Collaborations
Unfinished Live is made in collaboration with the following organizations
Unfinished Live is produced by Empire.