Digital Disruption
with Geoff Nielson
Our Guest John Bruce Discusses
Taking Back Your Data: Why the Next Web MUST Protect Digital Freedom
What if your data worked for you and not the platforms controlling it?
Today on Digital Disruption, we’re joined by John Bruce, CEO and co-founder of Inrupt.
With a background as both a founder and an executive at global tech firms, John Bruce is uniquely qualified to help engineer the next phase of the web alongside his co-founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He brings to bear decades of successful business leadership and experience creating new markets around innovative software. Prior to partnering with Tim, he was the co-founder and CEO of Resilient, now an IBM company, that developed a new approach to cybersecurity. Through Resilient and four other successful startups, John has experienced firsthand the strategic challenges that the current structure of the web causes for users, developers, and organizations around the world.
John Bruce sits down with Geoff Nielson to talk about a future where individuals and not platforms own their data. John shares how AI, consent-driven data sharing, and a decentralized digital wallet called Charlie could fundamentally reshape how we interact with technology, institutions, and each other. He explains why we must reclaim personal data from tech giants and what “agentic wallets” are and how they work.
The Next Industrial Revolution Is Already Here
Digital Disruption is where leaders and experts share their insights on using technology to build the organizations of the future. As intelligent technologies reshape our lives and our livelihoods, we speak with the thinkers and the doers who will help us predict and harness this disruption.
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Our Guest Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon Discusses
Is AI Eroding Identity? Future of Work Expert on How AI Is Taking More Than Jobs
From redefining long-held beliefs about “jobs for life,” to the cultural fractures emerging between companies, workers, and society, Dr. Anne-Marie goes deep on what’s changing, what still isn’t understood, and what leaders must do right now to avoid being left behind.
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Our Guest Andy Mills Discusses
How AI Will Save Humanity: Creator of The Last Invention Explains
If you want clarity on AGI, existential risk, the future of work, and what it all means for humanity, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.
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Our Guest Peter Norvig Discusses
AGI Is Here: AI Legend Peter Norvig on Why It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Are we chasing the wrong goal with artificial general intelligence and missing the breakthroughs that matter now?
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Our Guest Cassie Kozyrkov Discusses
Why AI Is Failing: Ex-Google Chief Cassie Kozyrkov Debunks "AI-First"
In this episode, Cassie Kozyrkov, former Google Chief Decision Scientist and CEO of Kozyr, sits down with Geoff to unpack the hidden cost of the “AI-first” hype, the dangers of AI infrastructure debt, and why real AI readiness starts with people, not technology.