Episode 19: Facebook Wants to Read Your Brain
Topic One: Can you trust Facebook to read your mind? One thought is that it’s pretty cool, no matter who creates it. But having Facebook be the creator immediately makes us nervous. Lessons for you:…
Topic One: Can you trust Facebook to read your mind? One thought is that it’s pretty cool, no matter who creates it. But having Facebook be the creator immediately makes us nervous. Lessons for you:…
We’re preparing for Las Vegas, ChannelCon, hot weather, and a swarm of grasshoppers! Stay tuned for our next episode – to be recorded live in Vegas. We start this episode with a little catch-up on…
We’re all back in the house for Episode 17. We kick off with a discussion of bandwidth. With all the talk about 5G, the US continues to have some pretty slow internet access. See https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/12/20681214/mobile-speeds-slow-ookla-5g…
Quick note at the beginning: The Smithsonian will be projecting a Saturn V rocket on the side of the Washington Monument as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the moon landing. See http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/07/09/smithsonian-project-saturn-rocket-washington-monument/. …
Ryan joins us again . . . from a remote location. THE topic we felt had to start with is Microsoft’s announcement that they are putting an end to “internal use” software rights. We look…
Ryan’s off to Scotland this week, but Dave’s back from New Zealand. So Dave and I enjoyed a casual conversation about travel . . . and other Summer topics. If you want business stuff, hang…
Dave was off to New Zealand when we recorded Episode 13. So Ryan and Karl took on three topics on our own. Dave will be back next week. We kick off with a discussion of…
We start off arguing about whether to investigate and breaks up some of the big online services. Listen for Dave’s challenge to the listeners! Next up, we jump into the following article from the MIT…
Topics here include technology in schools, Windows 7 EOL, and SpaceX. Technology in schools has become more important than ever, but the “digital divide” is getting worse. Some districts have amazing, cutting edge programs while…
A follow-up to the topic we started last week. We kick off with a discussion about ethics in emerging technology. Ethics need to be both internal and outward-facing. And the sooner ethics enters the discussion,…