Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIntroducing Have A Nice Future
Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to the Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, about how she plans to address the city’s problems, from homeless…
3 years, 2 months ago
Like, Follow, Subscribe to Cars
It used to be that when you bought a car, you just picked out the model and color you wanted and selected the optional extras. When the dealer rang u…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sidewalk Surfin’
Amazon has sold a lot of connected devices, and now it’s putting those devices to work. Millions of Ring cameras and Echo speakers sitting in homes a…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Sacred Mountain of Chip-Making
If you're reading this, you can thank a semiconductor. Phones, tablets, computers—really any device more digital than pen and paper—all depend on the…
3 years, 3 months ago
I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Call Me
Our smartphones rule our lives. We love them, we hate them. Somewhere deep down inside, we hope they never go away. But, if recent sales data is to b…
3 years, 3 months ago
ChatGPT in Schools
The worst part of going to school is all the homework. Nothing strikes dread in a student’s heart quite like facing down a deadline on a seven-page e…
3 years, 3 months ago
We Really Recommend This Episode
The modern internet is powered by recommendation algorithms. They're everywhere from Facebook to YouTube, from search engines to shopping websites. T…
3 years, 3 months ago
Netflix Is No Longer Chill
The promise of streaming TV was that you could watch whatever you wanted, when you wanted. And for a while, that was mostly true. But recently, strea…
3 years, 4 months ago
Real Humans Chat About Chatbots
The unstoppable march of artificial intelligence carries on. In mere weeks, AI has oozed into nearly everything we interact with on the internet, fro…
3 years, 4 months ago
I Know What You Did With That Bitcoin
If you’ve committed any internet crimes lately, you probably shouldn’t have paid for them with Bitcoin. While many crypto-evangelists have long thoug…
3 years, 4 months ago