Distributed Future Podcast

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.

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!

What can classical stage managment teach us about the future of the Metaverse?

We talk about disinfo on social media and how to combat it.

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.

How can tech help society cope with climate change?

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.

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.

Building a new browser. We talk about the browser landscape, why it is important and how to make a new one.

We talk about the speed of the news cycle, how little we can change and the rate of change now and in the future.