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Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
Written by Bill Joy. Originally published on April 1st, 2000.
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Sep 2023
Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions
<p>This week: How tech executives’ favorite place to take their pants off turned into a muddy hellscape. We talk to one executive who couldn’t just call a helicopter to escape.</p><p>Then, Jonathan Greenblatt, C.E.O. of the Anti-Defamation League, on how his organization went fro ... Show More
1h 4m
Dec 2021
Do you really want that device to be a connected device?
Guest Jay Radcliffe from Thermo Fisher Scientific shares his advice and security concerns with smart devices since the holiday gifting season is around the corner, Joe and Dave have some listener follow up about 2FA, Joe's got a story about the Robinhood breach, Dave's story is a ... Show More
47m 24s
Feb 2025
The Story: Liar, Liar, Deepfakes on Fire w/ Hany Farid
Hany Farid is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He's been a leading voice on digital forensics for over two decades—pioneering ways to identify if an image, audio or video has been digitally altered. Since the r ... Show More
29m 19s
Aug 2023
Fighting forest fires with technology
Juan Lavista Ferres, chief data scientist at Microsoft's AI For Good Lab, tells Tech Life how artificial intelligence can help predict wildfires.Driverless cars are popping up on streets around the world. But not everyone welcomes them, and some protestors in San Francisco have t ... Show More
27m 18s
Oct 2023
Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test
<p>As the Israel-Hamas war broke out, misinformation and fake imagery surged on X, the platform formerly known at Twitter. Can Meta’s Threads fill the real-time news hole that X created? Should it?</p><p>Then, Kevin debriefs us on his reporting on Manifold Markets, where Silicon ... Show More
1h 6m
