Spark from CBC Radio

Jordan Hermant on the movie Pump Up the Volume as proto-file sharing and blogging. Jo Guldi on the 18th century Open Roads Movement as proto-net neutrality. Michelle Parise on Prince song titles as proto-texts. Colin Newell and Kristin Haring on CB radio

Michael Cook on Angelina, the AI game designer. Cathi Bond on the latest trend in buying art online. Julia Ringler on whether humans would destroy a robot if they could. Matt Jones on designing user interfaces with artificial empathy. Carlos Asmat on his

Lindsay Michael on the top trends at SXSWi. Sean Carruthers on why algorithms are used more than people in the hiring process. Dr. Michael Gardam on hand washing in hospitals. Corey Takahashi on new innovations out of the Game Developers Conference. Gabri

Chris Harrison on "on-body interfaces". Tema Frank on the future of magic and cyber magician Marco Tempest. Bartholomaus Traubeck on his tree-ring record player. Kate Hartman on her tweeting plant and the relationship between nature and tech. Matt Ratto o

Dustin Rivers on using blogs and podcasts to teach Squamish. Jason Lewis on helping Aboriginal kids imagine their place in the future through web videos. Candis Callison on how First Nations people use social media. Susan O’Donnell on Facebook surveillanc

David McCandless on The Information Is Beautiful Awards. Edward Boatman on The Noun Project. Angel Gambino on urban renewal through digital thinking. Jon Kalish on the Open Source Ecology farm. Limor Fried on having fun with open source hardware.

Christina Crook and Mary Robinette Kowal on the return to letter writing. Robert Brumley on designing a city with no people. Denis Grignon on the closing urban-rural tech divide. Kristen Haring on the beauty of binary systems.

Rebecca MacKinnon on her new book Consent of the Networked. Cyrus Farivar on young politicians and online transparency. Alec Holowka on indie video game design. Michael Keferl on Don Tapscott on crowdsourcing cool.

Cory Doctorow on the coming war on personal computing. Byron Holland on balancing copyright protection with an open Internet. AnnaLee Saxenian on regional creative hubs and the new Argonauts. Jonathan Gifford on Berlin as the next Silicon Valley. Mark Sur

Matthew Kirschenbaum with on his upcoming book The Literary History of Word Processing. Edward Birnbaum on digital trap streets. Gerry McCartney on Purdue University's Hotseat technology. Rhonda McEwan on the benefits of mobile tech for non-verbal student

Peter Nowak with the latest alternative interface technologies at CES. Paul LaFarge on hypertext fiction and the future of literature. Todd Pataky on computers that can identify you by your gait. Ian Cook and Shawn Long on the pros and cons of telecommuti

Spark celebrates the legacy of Alan Turing with two feature-length interviews. Luciano Floridi discusses the Fourth Revolution in knowledge and David Weinberger talks about how knowledge and decision making are changing in the Internet era.

Baratunde Thurston on enlisting online influencers to campaign for his new book. Steve Rubel on how to manage your time and attention in a transmedia world. Jon Kalish on DIY-ers re-purposing libraries. David Weinberger on library innovation. Cathi Bond o

Tony Haile on the problem with prediction and real-time data analysis. Anshuman Iddamsetty, Suneet Tuli and Anjali Kelkar on designing tech products to serve the needs of people with the lowest incomes. Michael Nielsen on his book Reinventing Discovery: T

Luis von Ahn on translating the web into every major language through online volunteers. Marjorie Perloff on poetry and unoriginal genius. Cinnamon Nippard on the amateur, hacker space race. Jane Margolis and Maria Klawe on why gender balance in computer