Living in the Future

Jun 11 2024 11 ep. 43 mins 8
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From Star Trek to Minority Report, movies have captured our imaginations about what the future of tech – and our world – will look like. This series explores the cool, wacky and far-out tech that the entertainment industry has dreamed up and how some it has gone from the big screen to everyday life.

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How Virtual Reality is Changing the Gaming Industry

Jun 11 2024 40 mins  
From headsets to room-scale experiences, VR is reshaping the gaming industry. In this episode, Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat talks about how far VR technology has come and where it’s headed next.

Fitness, But Smarter

Apr 11 2024 46 mins  
From smart fitness equipment to wearables, companies are gamifying exercise to make it more fun and are giving us tools to track our health and fitness journeys. In this episode, Victoria Song of The Verge shares what’s worth paying attention to and what the future of fitness tech holds.

The Evolution of TVs

Jan 30 2024 46 mins  
TVs were once bulky pieces of furniture, but over the last few decades they have transformed into super-thin devices that can stream a wide variety of content and connect with our smartphones. In this episode, Phil Nickinson of Digital Trends weighs the merits of smart TVs compared to the “dumb displays” of the past.

Generative AI And The New Era of Communicating with Machines

Dec 07 2023 37 mins  
Memorable characters like J.A.R.V.I.S. from Iron Man and Samantha from Her offered a glimpse into a future where we can seamlessly communicate with machines, and where AI assistants truly understand us and can predict what we want. In this episode, Ben Bajarin at Creative Strategies explores how generative AI is reshaping the way we talk to computers and how we’ll see this evolve

The Next Era of Satellite Phones, with Mike Dano

Nov 06 2023 34 mins  
Imagine being able to stay connected wherever you go, untethered to the limits of cellular connectivity and Wi-Fi. With satellite connectivity, this isn’t just a pipe dream. Pretty soon satellite-enabled phones will become mainstream and worrying about signal bars will be a thing of the past. Tune in with Light Reading’s Mike Dano to hear about how satellites thousands of miles

How the Sci-Fi "Computer" Became the Virtual Assistant

Sep 29 2023 52 mins  
"Computer!" the Captain barks into the console of her starship – and, incredibly, the computer responds! Well ... it was incredible to audiences of the 1990s anyway, when the closest thing to "voice activation" was The Clapper. How did we go from applauding our lights on, to having conversations with Alexa and Google in less than twenty years? Tune in with Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

The Wild West of AI, with Dan Mbanga

Aug 02 2023 58 mins  
Transformers aren’t just action figures. Chatbots, ChatGPT, and other AI-powered applications using transformers are changing the way we get information and communicate. It seems like these applications have a brain of their own, but is that the case? Google’s Dan Mbanga breaks down what you need to know about how machine learning works.

Wi-Fi, 5G, and the "Always On" Internet Connection

May 01 2023 47 mins  
Scanners; communicators; computers – as exciting as the technology of the future can be, absolutely none of it matters without a constant connection to ... somewhere else. And the same goes for the technology of the present: every time you ask Alexa to play a song, or send your exercise stats to your Fitness Friends group chat, or navigate to a new part of town, you're relying on

How Cars Learned To (Mostly) Drive Themselves, with Edward Niedermeyer

Mar 27 2023 68 mins  
From Total Recall's Johnny Cab to Minority Report's Lexuses of 2054, the self-driving car has co-starred opposite countless future-dwellers, a perennial signifier that "hey, this movie is set in the F U T U R E!" But about five years ago, the whole idea of a car that could drive you (instead of the other way around) started to get a lot closer to science fact than fiction. Michael

How the Sci-Fi "Communicator" Became the Cellphone, with Dr. Marty Cooper

Feb 21 2023 39 mins  
The Star Trek communicator; the Dick Tracy radio watch; the Teenage Mutant Ninja 'Turtle-Com.' For decades, science fiction and fantasy forecasted futuristic two-way radios that seemed fantastical at the time – but today, 7 billion people carry them in their everyday lives. Dr. Marty Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, joins Michael Fisher (aka Captain2Phones) to explain how