
98 episodes

Where's My Jetpack? Michael Hainsworth
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4.6 • 13 Ratings
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The technology we were promised as kids, what we got, and what's coming next.
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The Future of Social Media with Brittlestar
Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter, does this portend the downfall of western civilization? The Internet's Favourite Dad, Stewart Reynolds, AKA Brittlestar, thinks The Kids Today won't put up with this shit the way Gen-X and the Boomers do.
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The Blockchain Primer
When electricity was first invented, Victorians had to learn a lot about it. Blockchain is kind of like that. Eventually we won't care. But until then, here's a primer on what you need to know about this world-changing technology from Tracy Leparulo and Amber Healy.
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Where's My Hologram? with Proto's David Nussbaum
Star Wars holograms suck. Meet the man who's Proto technology has been used at concerts and awards shows, is being used by Wall Street schmucks, and may even be used by hospitals by remote doctors. David Nussbaum says the future is only 5 years away.
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S01E03 Where's My Sexbot with Annette Masterson
Since Westworld debuted in 1973, we've been promised a world of consequence-free sex with robots. They're still coming, and PhD student Annette Masterson at Temple University has been studying their rise since 2018 and the unusual technologies required to make them happen. This episode made possible in part by the Digital Life Institute at Ontario Tech University.
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Where's My Privacy? with Cory Doctorow Part 2
Sci-fi author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow on why Telsas are "Murder Cars" and how to talk to your kids about Surveillance Capitalism without scaring them off their smartphones.
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Where's My Privacy? with Cory Doctorow Part 1
Our smartphones are being used against us. Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow on the science behind his fiction "Attack Surface" and why we must protect ourselves. Part 1 of 2.
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I was too a regular listener to The Ongoing History of Rock. Now that I'm state side I enjoy hearing the new tandem. Fun and really interesting. I'm getting my fellow geeks to join in on this one