Doing Tech Right

Doing Tech Right

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Doing Tech Right episodes

  • Positive Play on PlayStation
    This week Larry speaks with Catherine Jensen, VP of Global Consumer Experience at Sony Interactive Entertainment. Larry and Catherine discuss PlayStation safety and privacy settings, ways that players can help each other, and the importance of intergenerational play.

    23 min
  • Navigating the Future: Safety and Privacy of Self-Driving Cars
    This week we speak with Brad Templeton, who started his career as a software developer and after writing about a dozen software packages, he founded the world's first .com. Brad entered the self-driving car space in 2007 and his website and blog at robocars.com is the oldest and most popular site on the topic. Larry and Brad talk about use cases for autonomous vehicles, privacy and safety concerns, and the future of the technology. 

    31 min
  • The Science and Technology of Sleep with Dr. Logan Schneider
    Today Larry talks to Dr. Logan Schneider, M.D., Clinical Lead for Sleep Health, Google Health. Dr. Logan Schneider specializes in the treatment of sleep disorders. Larry and Logan tackle subjects like: What is sleep health and who should be concerned about it? What does it mean to democratize sleep health - what communities are at most risk? They also talk about the technology of sleep - CPAP machines, wearables, even smart beds. 

    27 min
  • How to Detect Disinformation and Spin
    Today Larry talks to Peter Adams, senior vice president of research and design for the News Literacy Project. They discuss the upcoming election and how to detect and counter mis- and disinformation, as well as some surprising information on how media literacy is taught in classrooms.
    28 min
  • Youth Mental Health in the Age of Cancel Culture and Online Conflict
    In this episode, we shift our focus to young adults and college students. We talk to Jessie Quintero Johnson, associate professor for health and social change at Emerson College. Jessie is also a psychotherapist and a licensed clinical social worker. Jessie discusses anti-oppressive social change work, the loneliness epidemic, mental health and some of the very hopeful things about this cohort of students.
    25 min
  • Jeff Jarvis Follow Up: How to Dodge Techno and Moral Panics
    In this second episode with Jeff Jarvis, Larry and Jeff discuss this part of our two part podcast regulation, encryption, the dangers of techno moral panics, and about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which has been quite controversial in the United States.  Find out more in this follow up with Jeff Jarvis, author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis.
    27 min
  • Living in a Post-Print World
    Larry talks to Jeff Jarvis, author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, about how the age of print was an exception in history. And while that exception lasted half a millennium, we are now coming to the other end of it. What that means, and where do we go from here?
    28 min

About Doing Tech Right

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We’re updating our name—and our focus. We’re moving from the first season of our podcast, where we asked, “Are We Doing Tech Right?” to a new title: Doing Tech Right.

While we’ll still…