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How Amazon Automated My Job: A Conversation With Elaine Kwon
Season 1 Episode 40
Elaine Kwon was a vendor manager in Amazon's retail organization when the company started to turn her tasks over to machine learning in a program cal…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Uneasy Amazon Coalition, With Fulfillment Author Alec MacGillis
Season 1 Episode 39
ProPublica senior reporter Alec MacGillis highlights the growing economic divide in the U.S. — through the lens of Amazon — in his new book, Fulfillm…
5 years, 5 months ago
Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on The Criticism of Tech Criticism
Season 1 Episode 38
Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat are two of the most prominent Facebook critics worldwide. Cadwalladr is the journalist who broke open the Cambri…
5 years, 5 months ago
BuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan on the "Zoom Class," NFTs, and San Francisco
Season 1 Episode 37
BuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan has long covered the way society interacts with technology. He joins Big Technology Podcast this week to dis…
5 years, 5 months ago
Why Rest of World wants to change international tech news, with Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis
Season 1 Episode 36
Rest Of World is a new publication that covers technology outside of North America and Europe. Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis join Big Technology…
5 years, 5 months ago
Bonus: Senator Amy Klobuchar On How Congress Will Take On Big Tech
Season 1 Episode 35
Senator Amy Klobuchar will be leading the charge in Congress as the legislature interrogates the power of big tech, and potentially takes action to r…
5 years, 5 months ago
Twitter Product Head Kayvon Beykpour On The Story Behind Twitter’s Revival
Season 1 Episode 34
Kayvon Beykpour is one of Silicon Valley’s busiest product executives. As Twitter’s head of product, he’s survived for years in a formerly-cursed rol…
5 years, 5 months ago
Will Artificial Intelligence Take Our Jobs? A Conversation with Kevin Roose, NYT Columnist and Futureproof author
Season 1 Episode 33
Artificial intelligence may take our jobs, or it may give us new freedom in the workplace. The debate is heating up as this technology is starting to…
5 years, 6 months ago
WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart on Privacy, Content Moderation, and Apple
Season 1 Episode 32
Will Cathcart runs WhatsApp, the 2 billion user app that's the de facto tool for messaging and calling for many across the globe. Cathcart joins Big …
5 years, 6 months ago
Arab Spring Leader Wael Ghonim on Modern Social Media's Promise And Peril
Season 1 Episode 31
In 2011, Wael Ghonim created a Facebook page that sparked the overthrow of the Egyptian regime. Since then, the former Google marketing director has …
5 years, 6 months ago