TWiT 768: Steer Into the Skid

This Week in Tech (Video LO)

Contact Tracing, Synthetic Biology

• Ask a futurist: how do we get from now to the Covid-19 free future? Steer into the slide.
• The future of synthetic biology is sticking viruses into our systems as medication
• Apple-Google contact tracing vs Palantir: who do you trust?
• France bans Amazon from selling non-essential items: should America follow? Should Amazon be doing more with automation?
• The best videoconferencing etiquette
• Why are people tearing down 5g towers to fight coronavirus?
• What new businesses are going to be born out of the Covid-19 crisis? Automation, synthetic biology, and delivery get a VC boost
• AI development and Big Tech data gathering is leading us down a dystopian superhighway
• Is CES gone for good? How long can movie theaters stay closed?
• Salute to the real heroes - the IT people keeping us all connected in this crisis
• Distance learning: what is working, what isn't, and what is the future of education?
• How did Microsoft fumble Cortana? The same way they fumbled Windows Phone
• Apple hopes to put its own chips in macs
• Google says AI can design a chip in 6 hours
• The next world war will be fought in cyberspace
• Kim Jong Un: Dead or alive? Will North Korea be the next manufacturing hotspot or a radioactive crater?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb and Iain Thomson

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