Tech Hygiene

This week I speak with Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at GMU and and editor at MarginalRevolution.com, one of my favorite sources for amazing things. This wide ranging conversation covers income inequality, future economics, and the benefits of despair.

RERUN - This week we talk to Bassem Hamdy of Procore about the future of construction and the coming changes that will fix the way we build buildings.

Mitch Goldstone runs ScanMyPhotos, a service that scans photos. This week we talk to him about the future of memory and media.

This week we talk to Chris Boos, the man who trained a robot to beat humans at FreeCiv.

Cryptocurrency expert Gil Penchina joins us this week to talk about the future of token sales. 

This week we talk about security with Neil Feather.

Stephanie Alys is a Co-founder and Chief Pleasure Officer (CPO) for British lifestyle brand, MysteryVibe. That's right: this episode is about robotic pleasure devices.

This week we talk to the creators of Arduino about their amazing platform.

This episode we talk with Emilio Ferrara, a researcher who has discovered that botnets can be used for good.

This week we talk to Abe Burmeister of Outlier clothing, a company that looks to the future when it comes to spider silk and goat hooves.

This week we talk to independent game maker Zoe Quinn about her new book, Crash Override.

In this episode we talk about trusting humans to do a computer's job. 

On this episode we learn about some real tools that can prevent us from getting hacked.

In this episode we talk to Kristoffer Lawson, the creator of one of the coolest user interfaces I've seen in a long time. Lawson also talks about the future of personality transplants.

Ed Zitron is a PR professional with an interesting view on the future. In this episode we talk about power, network, and bread.