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Glowstep: A microcommunity helping people through career transitions.
Established companies are laying off staff, the job market has changed, AI is a challenge. Meng and I discussed her microcommunity Glowstep, which helps people navigate the new jobs landscape…
The state of the world and the future of social media.
A chat about the future of AI and social media.
South African Solar power
We discuss the finances, pros and cons of solar power in a country where the grid is unreliable.
Astronomy, Starlink, light pollution and Planet Nine
Prof Sam Lawler describes the impact that huge numbers of new satellites are having on astronomy
Inclusive opensource
Why inclusiveness is good for your opensource project and how to achive it.
The future of music distribution
A chat about the past, present and future of music distribution with a musician who's been at it for more than 50 years.
Will we regret computers as much as we do cars?
Vim and Tim get together to chat about techological regret, paths not taken and the decisions we are taking now.
How should opensource be funded?
Our guest's pilot project is using government money to fund development and maintenance of essential opensource projects.
Education in large cohorts
We discuss a new style of on-line learning, self paced and voluntary along with other community driven education activities.
Misogyny, pornography and malignant stereotypes in AI
We discuss auditing computational models of human behavior and the large-scale datasets they are trained on. Our guest gives examples of the consequences of a badly curated model.
Building a community for crowdsourced medical research - EverythingALS.org
How can a networked community contribute to medical advances? We talk to Indu Navar about EverythingALS and the change it brings to treatment of brain disease.
Modern and Quantum Cryptography - what does the future hold?
What is new in cryptography? How quantum computers impact privacy? What are realistic timelines? Do we need to act today? Our guest answers all these questions and more!
Events, social media and video conferences
What can classical stage managment teach us about the future of the Metaverse?
Disinfo, cults and the future of social media
We talk about disinfo on social media and how to combat it.
The future as seen by science fiction
We discuss how Science Fiction can (or can't) show us the future. We dig into the concept of an open-source panopticon and how it might work.
Climate change
How can tech help society cope with climate change?
Opensource hardware and the Risc-V processor
How will the rise of opensource hardware change society? Does politic impact chip design? We talk about why Risc-V matters an where it is going.
New Tech in education, what are the rules?
Who chooses which Edtech students use? Can they protect their privacy? Who owns that school laptop anyway? None of these questions have simple answers, but we do our best to throw some light.
New Browser, Who dis ?
Building a new browser. We talk about the browser landscape, why it is important and how to make a new one.
The speed of news media and our ability to respond
We talk about the speed of the news cycle, how little we can change and the rate of change now and in the future.
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Distributed Future Podcast has published 86 episodes since February 2018, covering topics in Technology.
Distributed Future Podcast is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 48m.
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