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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Episode 110: Calestous Juma
Description: Calestous Juma is a prolific author who focuses on the intersection of society, science and international development.  He is a professor and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization project at the Belfer Center for Science and International affairs at Harvard.  Calestous grew up in flood prone village on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya and in this episode he describes how his upbringing inspired his interest in understanding the relationship between nature, economic development, and technological change. We kick off discussing his forthcoming book, out in July, titled Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies--which includes, among...