Best Future Trends podcasts — Where technology meets society (Updated September 2016; image)
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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. On this feed, you'll find TEDTalks video to inspire, intrigue and stir the imagination from some of the world's leading thinkers and doers, speaking from the stage at TED conferences, TEDx events and partner events around the world. This podcast is also available in high-def video and audio-only formats.
Every week Leo Laporte talks to the smartest people in the world about the most important topics in technology. Records live at https://twit.tv/live every Monday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.
A critical look at new technologies, new approaches and new ways of thinking, from politics to media to environmental sustainability.
It's about technology. It's about humanity. It's about our future. It's Fw:Thinking.
A podcast about tech and society, hosted by Ben Thompson and James Allworth
Innovation Now is a daily 90-second radio series and podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to hear compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the concepts that are shaping our future.
The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking; to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare. The SALT talks are curated by Stewart Brand and supported by Long Now members who also get HD video of the Seminars. You can become a member and support the series for just $8 a month: https://longnow.org/membership/
So many podcasts are about our digital devices. Analog(ue) is a show about how these devices make us feel and how they change our lives for the better, but also for the worse. Hosted by Myke Hurley and Casey Liss.
Ideas and opinion about the future based on verifiable facts of today.
Exploring digital citizenry as a creator and a consumer.
Fire was our first true piece of technology. Around its warming glow, we would tell stories, share our thoughts, and bond with the people we love. Centuries later, our fires have been digitized, and thrown into everyone's pocket. They are infinitely more powerful. This is a podcast dedicated to exploring the intersection of technology and storytelling, from two writers connected by circuits, wires and a passion for writing.
Taking the long view on technology, religion, ethics, and art. There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how Apple’s latest product will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in 2024. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond?
A weekly podcast about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world. Hosted by Jonathan Stark and Kelli Shaver.
Digital Impact Radio Built by and for Technology Savvy Professionals, The Digital Impact Conversation looks at the journey digital Impact is making. Digital Impact Radio is a regular monthly output from the Linked in group Digital Impact Conversations, where you will hear about Capability, Projects, Go-Lives, Partners and Emerging Trends that make a Digital Impact. The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of each contributor and do don’t reflect the opinions of their employers. music ...
A podcast series where Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl ) and John Willis (@botchagalupe) discuss futuristic concepts of IT. Mark has a PHD in physics among other things and I barely finished high school. We, therefore, seem to make an unlikely pair for discussion. However, we have found over the years our discussions on such subjects make for great dialog (at least we enjoy it). We have decided to see if other's agree. RSS Feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:245384055/sou ...
Edible batteries, ingestible sensors, tiny intravenous drug delivery craft and a wound-clogging injectable sponge - new research takes a decidedly invasive approach to problem solving.
Autonomous Bed INTRO Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world. This week we talk about the moral dilema of being an autonomous vehicle. Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next... LINKS Moral Machine W ...…
Can we fight terror without destroying democracy? Internet freedom activist Rebecca MacKinnon thinks that we'll lose the battle against extremism and demagoguery if we censor the internet and press. In this critical talk, she calls for a doubling-down on strong encryption and appeals to governments to better protect, not silence, the journalist ...…
A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing WindBot, a high-mobility explorer designed to travel to gas giants.
Ben and James discuss Oracle’s prospects in the crowd and how the Internet has changed the enterprise. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Oracle’s Cloudy Future — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Is AWS a Commodity? — Stratechery Daily Update Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review ...…
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TEDTalks (audio)
From improving vaccines to modifying crops to solving crimes, DNA technology has transformed our world. Now, for the first time in history, anyone can experiment with DNA at home, in their kitchen, using a device smaller than a shoebox. We are living in a personal DNA revolution, says biotech entrepreneur Sebastian Kraves, where the secrets bur ...…
Inside a burning building, firefighters have only their training and their five senses to rely on. But a new type of artificial intelligence could prove to be the firefighter’s guardian angel.
In the quest for solar energy, researchers seek new ways to harness the sun’s energy, something plants have been doing on Earth for thousands of years.
How did Stanford teach monkeys to transcribe Hamlet using only their monkey brains? And how could this technology benefit us in the future? We revisit computer-brain interfaces.By podcast@howstuffworks.com (Fw:Thinking).
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Episode 76 Jason Lowe talks to Junta’s Peter Laurie about the 6 Key Things for Developers. Part 2 of 3 (01:06) Automated Builds (06:57) Developer Tests (13:30) Continuous Integration Listen in and join the Digital Impact Radio Show! Run time: 19:06
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How much do you get paid? How does it compare to the people you work with? You should know, and so should they, says management researcher David Burkus. In this talk, Burkus questions our cultural assumptions around keeping salaries secret and makes a compelling case for why sharing them could benefit employees, organizations and society.…
A see-through wall made of wood? That’s only the beginning of the story. Researchers from the University of Maryland have developed transparent wood that channels light.
Positive / Visible / Social (Organized): orchestras and the question of “public goods” Show Notes We talk about orchestras, ask whether financial viability is a guide to the health or importance of particular institutions (hint: Betteridge’s Law), and look at how orchestras and other such institutions can be real markers of cultural health even ...…
What is artificial intelligence? What's the difference between weak, strong, narrow and general AI? And what's state of the art today?By podcast@howstuffworks.com (Fw:Thinking).
Are we destined for an AI arms race? Why would nations race to develop AI? And will we ever create superintelligent AI?By podcast@howstuffworks.com (Fw:Thinking).
Host: Megan Morrone Guest: Tim Stevens Megan Morrone fills in for Leo and talks to Tim Stevens, Editor-at-Large at CNET and Roadshow. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.By leo@twit.tv (Leo Laporte).
Mars is about 40 million miles from Earth --- and on a trip that far, it is impossible to take everything you might need with you. But the ability to live off the Martian land would make human exploration possible.
Myke is still in Portland, but he has a house buying update. After this, Casey and Myke discuss their podcast listening habits. This episode of Analog(ue) is sponsored by: Linode: High performance SSD Linux servers for all of your infrastructure needs. Get a $20 credit with promo code ‘analogue20’ Ring: Create a ring of security that starts at ...…
When fabric becomes futuristic: a 'gravity loading' space suit, electronic temporary tattoos, sweat eating sportswear and kombucha leather.
David B. Coe and Stuart Jaffe are our featured guests. Topics include the continued rise of independent publishing and some of the ways the traditional publishing houses are changing how they treat authors so they can continue to profit in this new environment. David B. Coe is the author of more than fifteen novels and a dozen short stories. Hi ...…
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Why do some people do selfless things, helping other people even at risk to their own well-being? Psychology researcher Abigail Marsh studies the motivations of people who do extremely altruistic acts, like donating a kidney to a complete stranger. Are their brains just different?By contact@ted.com (TED Conferences LLC).
For the past 20 years, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been preparing a miniaturized, low-mass atomic clock that will soon be ready for its maiden space flight.
Post Gooey Computing INTRO Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world. This week we talk about: Gadgets (Echo Dot, AirPods, Google Home) Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next... HOUSEKEEPING Sorry abo ...…
Ben and James discuss Facebook’s latest run-in with the media: both are wrong but for different reasons. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Facebook Versus the Media — Stratechery Espen Egil Hansen: Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply with your requirement to remove this picture. — Aftenposten Ben Thompson ...…
In this episode, we discuss the history of configuration management as it transitions into the 1990's and then 2000's. We discussed Mark's original ideas of applying convergence and idempotency into the cm process. Of course we mix a little bit of science into the discussion.
Architecture is more than a clever arrangement of bricks. In this eloquent talk, Michael Murphy shows how he and his team look far beyond the blueprint when they're designing. Considering factors from airflow to light, theirs is a holistic approach that produces community as well as (beautiful) buildings. He takes us on a tour of projects in co ...…
Window tinting is effective, to a point, but new technology could take us from transparent to black, with the flick of a switch.
"We're not in a clean energy revolution; we're in a clean energy crisis," says climate policy expert Michael Shellenberger. His surprising solution: nuclear. In this passionate talk, he explains why it's time to overcome longstanding fears of the technology, and why he and other environmentalists believe it's past time to embrace nuclear as a v ...…
As Curiosity marks its fourth anniversary, in Earth years, since landing on Mars, NASA celebrates with the release of a new game so we can all join the adventure.
Episode 75: Jason Lowe talks to Junta’s Peter Laurie about the 6 Key Things for Developers. Part 1 of 3 (01:30) Who is Peter Laurie, Junta and the 6 Key Things (06:33) Source Code Control (12:17) Formal Releases Listen in and join the Digital Impact Radio Show! Run time: 17:59
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In this episode we answer some of the feedback questions we have recieved from the first 4 shows.
By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and wry humor, the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford makes the case for parents to stop defining their children's success via grades and test scores. Instead, she ...…
For some NASA Earth observers, the answers truly are blowing in the wind, and now there’s an effective way to find them.
Show Notes In which we look at Facebook... but not like we ever have before. Why are people starting to turn off Facebook, and what social pressures are arising from that? How do social pressures of this sort work, and what kinds of changes do they affect? Links Virtue signaling “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our bra ...…
Mark McCahill is an American programmer who has been involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s. Mark is best known for helping create the first popular Internet e-mail clients, POPmail, for the Macintosh (and later the PC). He also developed the gopher protocol, as well as coined the phrase " ...…
What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. We're not there yet, but in this sparky talk, digital currency researcher Neha Narula describes the collective fict ...…
We already knew what Apple was going to show us when Tim Cook took the stage this past Wednesday: new iPhone, new Watch, new accessories for the fall. There weren't many surprises, when it came to products. The story was already written. Maybe that's why then that the focus following the technology company's keynote has been on one thing: coura ...…
Private pilots are the key to an early warning system that could alert coastal communities to algae blooms in their neighborhood.
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Future Tense - Full program podcast
Is it possible to modify the brain through exercise, implants or even electricity?
Is it possible for two different experiences of the same event to be considered the truth? Has art and the media contributed to a drift in historical truth?
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TEDTalks (audio)
At the intersection of medical invention and indigenous culture, pediatric cardiologist Franz Freudenthal mends holes in the hearts of children across the world, using a device born from traditional Bolivian loom weaving. "The most complex problems in our time," he says, "can be solved with simple techniques, if we are able to dream."…
Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Viking 1 on August 20th, 1975, and Viking 2 on September 9th, the two identical spacecraft made up of a lander and orbiter, spent nearly a year cruising to Mars.
Ben and James discuss James’ adventurous summer and the recent Apple event and what it says about the future of Apple. Presented by MailChimp Links Wolverine Misses Exponent — Twitter James Allworth: So You’re Thinking About Doing a 10 Day Silent Vipassana Meditation Retreat? — Medium Naked People — Exponent Ben Thompson: Beyond the iPhone — St ...…
What is a concussion? Probably not what you think it is. In this talk from the cutting edge of research, bioengineer (and former football player) David Camarillo shows what really happens during a concussion -- and why standard sports helmets don't prevent it. Here's what the future of concussion prevention looks like.…
Pioneers pushing the boundaries of space-based research were recently honored at this year’s International Space Station Research and Development Conference. And their innovations are truly out-of-this world!
For the first time in history, the majority of American parents don't think their kids will be better off than they were. This shouldn't be a cause for alarm, says journalist Courtney Martin. Rather, it's an opportunity to define a new approach to work and family that emphasizes community and creativity. "The biggest danger is not failing to ac ...…
After last year’s record warm winter in the Arctic, NASA’s Operation IceBridge is taking a look at this summer’s sea ice.
Episode 74 Joel Nation and James Ryles talk about their GovHack Hackathon with Lessons Learned (01:22) Details about the Govhack Hackathon and their experience (04:01) Approach Taken and Lessons learned (06:08) Tips for Organising your own Hackathon (07:27) WrapUp Thoughts and go to ausemon.io to see the Final Product Listen in and join the Dig ...…
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Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics? Yes, it's complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn struggling students into scholars by helping them master concepts at their own pace.…
NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, is now autonomously selecting some of the rocks it zaps.
