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Jeff and Christian welcome Aaron Morales back to the show this week to discuss the 48 min Cyberpunk 2077 demo, Streets of Rage 4, a delay for Battlefield 5, Onimusha Warlord remastered, and more!

The Playlist: Spider-Man, Guacamelee 2, Dead Cells, Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombie, CastleStorm

Parting Gifts!

Skype gets way too ambitious; sprinkling sauce on a service; a mandatory social network for doorbells; Dan acquires a new deity; some excellent listener follow-up on Computerized Adaptive Testing; Dan takes his boy to see a bona fide cinema classic; Dan has some great TV recommendations; Merlin reports in from the deep weeds of a fraught smart speaker ecosystem.

Tommy and Adam discuss life simplification strategies, from introducing elements of minimalism to better time management and everything in between.

John and Dan discuss Jason's bag and blowing up dragons.

This week Joe and Cody discuss Apple's upcoming September 12th event and iPhone and Apple Watch leaks!

In this inaugural episode, we outline the key themes and issues we want to address in the show series including:

1) Defining micromobility - what is it, where did it come from and why does it matter?

2) The disruptive potential of micromobility. With this, we will unpack why the current fixation on autonomy with automobiles is misplaced, and what a distributed, connected robot of micromobility vehicles might look like.

3) The great unbundling of the car - what does it mean, and why the micromobility was required to make multimodality a feasible unbundled option for travel.

4) How the emergence of micro mobility tracks the development of the early days of computing, and why we’re still really in 1976 with the emergence of the Apple I.

5) How disruption from the low end induces demand and drives such steep adoption curves. We also unpack why their scale will permit the development of large scale computation platforms, especially vs. traditional car platforms.

6) The impact of the emergence of micromobility on infrastructure and how cities function.

7) How the business models of this might emerge, how securitisation of the assets deployed will enable rapid deployment, and lay the foundations for tokenised solutions that align the interests of users, operators and investors together.

We also hit Marchetti’s constant (time budgets for travel) and log normal distributions of travel time. We end on a thought experiment on how teleportation would change everything.

Transcript of this show is available for commenting and highlighting on the shows Medium page.

Discussed: homework and testing; wallets and wallet philosophies; things to learn from wallet philosophy; how to fall asleep; watching Star Trek; Dan's new smart speaker; Merlin yells at Alexa several times.

Tommy and Adam discuss the upsides and downside of 3D printing and how to choose the right 3D printer for you.

Jeff and Christian welcome Holly Green from Paste Magazine to the show this week to discuss Xbox All Access, Nintendo sticking with fixed prices, new Nvidia cards, and more!

The Playlist: Graveyard Keeper, Dead Cells, WoW: Battle for Azeroth

Quick Questions

Parting Gifts

"Honda Took Pride in Doing Everything Itself. The Cost of Technology Made That Impossible".

Edward Niedermeyer and Bertel Schmitt join Horace and Jim. We begin with a discussion of Honda and automotive grade linux.

We shift gears a bit and consider transport as a service around the globe. We contrast emerging app brands with the traditional auto eco-system and ponder a "meaningful contribution" from Apple.

Apologies for intermittent audio issues during our around the globe conversation.