FT Tech Tonic

By Financial Times

We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new techn

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The podcast currently has 246 episodes available.

FT Tech Tonic episodes:

December 13, 2017 Garry Kasparov on the risks and rewards of AI
Artificial intelligence is an important tool, but human beings have to be creative to understand how best to make use of it, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov tells John Thornhill
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25min
December 06, 2017 Guarding against the next cyber attack
Army veteran and cyber security expert Rick Howard talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about the current state of cyber security, what we have learned from recent large-scale attacks known as WannaCry and NotPetya and what companies can do to try to guard against the next attack.
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27min
November 29, 2017 Why AI is the future
Phil Libin, former chief executive of Evernote, tells John Thornhill why he thinks artificial intelligence will soon be part of the fabric of all our lives and about his plan to create a global AI incubator
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25min
November 22, 2017 Using tech to fight poverty
Elisabeth Mason, founding director of the Stanford Poverty & Technology Lab, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about solving problems such as education inequality and job retraining the Silicon Valley way.
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30min
November 15, 2017 What has gone wrong with the internet revolution?
Internet pioneer Martha Lane Fox talks to John Thornhill about her work in trying to ensure that the technology lives up to its early ideals and serves the interests of people rather than big companies.
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28min
November 08, 2017 Human friendly robotics
Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Mark Palatucci talks to John Thornhill about the consumer robot revolution and his efforts to help create empathy between humans and their robot toys
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21min
November 01, 2017 The social media effect
Microsoft researcher and Data & Society president danah boyd talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about the effect of everyday technology, such as Facebook, on society and culture.
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31min
October 25, 2017 Reclaiming Europe's digital sovereignty
Francesca Bria tells John Thornhill how she is helping citizens in Barcelona design their digital future, moving from an economy fuelled by advertising and surveillance and towards transparency and a new social pact on the ownership of data.
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27min
October 18, 2017 Seth Stephens Davidowitz on data mining
John Thornhill talks to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a former Google data scientist, about what our internet searches reveal about who we really are.

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22min
October 11, 2017 Mary Lou Jepsen on the wearable MRI
Scientist and former Facebook and Google executive Mary Lou Jepsen talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about her latest startup, Openwater, where she and a team of researchers are working to develop a ski helmet-sized imaging device that will one day read minds.
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28min

FAQs about FT Tech Tonic:

How many episodes does FT Tech Tonic have?

The podcast currently has 246 episodes available.

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