Category: Podcasts
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Episode 13: Would You Share?
If you and your partner could share your entire life experience’s with each other, Would You Share? Tune in to find out what Stan thinks, how this might affect family history, some of the ways digital archiving is already changing Stan’s relationship with is father, and how things like ambient intimacy are already changing the…
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Episode 12: Writing Google SEO Porn for Online Reputation Management
We’ve all googled ourselves at some point, but what happens when we don’t like what appears? In episode 12, Stan talks with Kathleen, who works in “online reputation management”, the art of controlling what appears when someone searches for you
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Episode 11: What is Quantified Self? – with Ernesto Ramirez
Jason sits down with Ernesto Ramirez, the editor and community organizer of QuantifiedSelf.com to discuss what exactly the quantified self movement is, how self tracking can potentially improve life quality, and the idea that QS at its root is essentially a mindfulness practice for the 21st century. Stan and Jason then break down some of…
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Episode 10: The Future of Medicine & The Transcendent Man
Is the singularity near? Stan and Jason discuss the documentary Transcendent Man about futurist Ray Kurzweil and the possibility that medicine will soon produce such vastly increased lifespans that immortality might become a possibility. Whether by extending the span of our biological selves, and/or uploading by our consciousness, we discuss the implications Ray Kurzweil’s predictions…
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Episode 9: Medicine – The Technology of Life
Tech doesn’t just mean gizmos, gadgets, and computers. Medicine has also been evolving at exponential rates in recent decades in ways that affect us every day. In episode 8 Stan & Jason discuss life expectancy, dentistry, natural selection, pain, & more!
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Episode 8: Is Technology Isolating Us?
Does technology connect us or isolate us? Stan’s friend Adam Dingle shares about how a recent train trip across the country differed from some of his previous trips – because of technology. Result: he definitely connected with fellow passengers less. Is this our future?
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Episode 7: “Less Stuff” and the shift to an access-based economy
We’re shifting from an ownership econcomy to an access based economy. As more and more media moves into the “cloud”, as devices like smartphones take over the roles of more and more discreet devices, and as on demand 3D printer looms on the horizon, Stan & Jason ponder discuss how we’re at the beginning of…
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Episode 6: The Law, Technology, and Aaron Swartz
Lawyers and hackers are colliding more often. Never more poignantly than a month ago when hacker-activist Aaron Schwartz was found dead in his apartment. His family maintains that his death was caused my the government’s overzealous prosecution after he downloaded millions of academic articles. Jason and Stan talk about the case, and how the legal world is…
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Episode 5: We’re Totally Judging You Based on Your Email Address
Stan and Jason come clean and talk about their tech prejudices and how we’re judging people based on their email address, computer platform, tv display settings, and more!
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Episode 4: The end of all jobs?
Is a robot going to take your job? Jason and Stan discuss how technology has changed the way jobs are created, and what this means for the future of all our jobs. Jason sees a world where you must be a creative entrepreneur to survive, and Stan wonders if work is necessary for us to…