Codebreaker, by Marketplace and Tech Insider

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4.5 (219)
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Codebreaker is a podcast that dares to ask – and answer – the fundamental questions about technology that consume us every day. From “is it evil?” to “can it save us?” – it’s up to you to listen, decode and decide. In partnership with Tech Insider.

EPISODE 1

Recognition

A toddler who saved her mother’s life with Siri, a man whose mysterious ailment opened up a world of voice recognition technology and a dating service that wants to scan the faces of all your exes. Listen, decode, and decide: Can recognition software save us?

33 min
EPISODE 2

Alternate Reality

A therapist who creates virtual reality experiences for people with dangerous disorders, a grandmother who uses a headset to escape her surroundings and Ernest Cline on virtual reality in fact and fiction. Listen, decode, and decide: Can alternate realities save us?

35 min
EPISODE 3

The Augmented Self

The man who collected too much data, cyborgs who want to make their body-hardware mainstream, robots that rebuild your hairline and a conversation with Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge aka LeVar Burton. Listen, decode, and decide: Can the augmented self save us?

33 min
EPISODE 4

Watching

Codebreaker, by Marketplace and Tech Insider

37 min
EPISODE 5

World Building

A proposal to bioengineer shorter humans with cat eyes, a decades-old idea for a totally new kind of power, a battery made from trash and Bill Nye the Science Guy tries to get us in gear. Listen, decode, and decide: Can world-building save us?

39 min
EPISODE 6

Encryption

Codebreaker, by Marketplace and Tech Insider

29 min
EPISODE 7

Technology Crossing Borders

The gadget that saved a refugee in the middle of the Aegean Sea, how an agent uses technology to patrol the U.S. border with Mexico, and how a journalist in exile broadcasts the news with WhatsApp. Listen, decode, and decide: Can technology crossing borders save us?

35 min

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Announcing Codebreaker Season One

Produced by Marketplace in partnership with Tech Insider, Codebreaker is a podcast that dares to ask — and answer — the fundamental questions about technology that consume us every day. In season one, we’re starting with three deceptively simple words: Is it evil? In each episode, host Ben Johnson applies this question to a different technology. Codebreaker launches November 11, 2015.

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219 Ratings

Come back!!!!

11/02/2020

Darla39228709

Such a great show! I’ve listened to all of the episodes at least 3 times! I wish they’d come back with more!
Great show

10/15/2017

ac26151

I wish they’d come out with more episodes.
Yes!!!

09/06/2017

Boom360$

Ben Johnson is such a talented host
Great stuff

07/15/2017

Wiggin6

Informative, quirky, easy to listen to

Codebreaker is a podcast that dares to ask – and answer – the fundamental questions about technology that consume us every day. From “is it evil?” to “can it save us?” – it’s up to you to listen, decode and decide. In partnership with Tech Insider.