If the COVID-19 pandemic had hit even ten years ago, we would be in a very different situation than today. We wouldn’t be able to video conference over Zoom. We wouldn’t have Facebook Portals to feel like we’re in the room with one another. Technology that sometimes seems to drive us apart (what’s so social […]
You’ve probably seen them. You’ve probably used them. Popular in Gmail and other messages platform like Slack or LinkedIn, they provide you with handy, if bland, suggested replies. Just a quick click sends a response, and you are on your way to sailing through your email inbox. But are smart replies really all that they […]
The newest seekers of immortality are on a radical quest: mind uploading. These people think that it may be possible to take all of the information locked within the folds of creases of their brains and upload it to the internet. Decoupled from their mortal bodies, they would be free forever. Free from suffering, free […]
Dr. Marie Moe is a cyborg. She has a pacemaker that controls the beating of her heart, and without it, she would die. But Marie also has a PhD in information security, and worked on cybersecurity for the Norwegian government. So she wondered if this new piece of tech within her could be compromised. She […]
No one knows what the future may hold. Or can they? Today on the podcast, we talk to Brian David Johnson, a futurist. Brian’s business is the future and predicting the future of technology. Weaving together a mix of ethnography, culture, trends, technology, and science, he helps businesses and enterprises forecast what the next decades […]
The world today generates an immense amount of data. Companies gather data on our buying habits, our location, and how we spend our time. The enormity of this data is too much for human analysts to dig through alone. Instead, they use machine learning algorithms. These algorithms take big data to analyze your routines, infer […]
Augmented Reality has many exciting applications. You can play games such as Pokémon Go, use AR to rearrange the furniture in your living room, or even get a glimpse of how you would look in a new hairstyle. But when considering these possibilities, it is also important to consider privacy issues and the ethics of Augmented Reality. How will companies […]
Books, computers, and internet connectivity are something we might take for granted in our schools. But for large sections of the developing world, classrooms might be devoid of desks, libraries might be empty of books, and teachers don’t keep lesson plans from year to year because they would deteriorate in the high humidity. There are […]
There are humans living and working in space as we speak. It’s a fact we often forget. This inspired today’s guest, Liam Kennedy, to invent a computer called the ISS Above (www.issabove.com/), which connects people on Earth with those in space and serves as a reminder of humanity’s potential. Liam talks about his invention, the […]