The Cultures

By The Cultures

Adrian Hon, Andrea Phillips, and Naomi Alderman talk about technology, books, publishing, games, science, religion, films, TV, politics, and how to live a good life.... more

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June 05, 2016151: Aphantasia, British Traditions, the SF canon
Aphantasia (and the conference call transcribing app)

The slow death of the most British thing there is - graphs of tea/coffee/sweet consumption, plus What Britain Buys

The detriments of growing up with the SF canon - Andrea's tweet series and sermons on reading old SF

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37min
May 29, 2016150: Capitalism + Millennials + Anxiety, Counting the Omer
Millennials reject capitalism

Capitalism as an engine of anxiety

Mussar and Counting the Omer

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34min
May 22, 2016149: Oxycontin Marketing, White People Emojis, Uncharted 4
Marketing causing Oxycontin addiction. No, seriously.

Why white people don't use the white hand emojis

Uncharted 4 is the One True Interactive Movie

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35min
May 15, 2016148: Real Friends, Making Friends, Outgroup Hatred
Do your friends think they're your friend?

Making friends, and highly intelligent people's friendships

Outgroup hatred: red vs. blue vs. grey tribes

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34min
May 08, 2016147: The Maintainers, Shadow Biosphere, Visit Your Parents, Smarttress
The Maintainers
Shadow Biosphere
Visit your parents in China (or else!)
Smarttress, and other internet of things things
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46min
May 01, 2016146: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Attention, Visual Plagiarism
Fully Automated Luxury Communism (and a utopian critique)
The 'attention span' problem - and how it's actually just that we've sold off the right to claim our attention
The problem of visual plagiarism
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47min
April 24, 2016145: Moving into Slack, Hobbies, Batman v Superman
Moving into Slack
Hobbies (Churchill as Bricklayer)
Batman v Superman (SPOILERS!); io9's Spoiler FAQ
TV shows we're enjoying
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49min
April 17, 2016144: Hidden curriculums, Douglas Rushkoff, VR
Hidden curriculums
Douglas Rushkoff on social media and digital natives
Andrea on Virtual Reality
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37min
April 10, 2016143: Applying for jobs, The Latitude ARG, Harassment in VR
Why don't young people applying for jobs make things & have (e.g.) games to show?
The Latitude ARG (update on its closure)
Harassment in VR
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36min
April 03, 2016142: Brexit, Race-based ad targeting, measurement dangers
Brexit
Facebook enables (sort of) race-based ad targeting
If it ain't broke, don't measure it
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34min

FAQs about The Cultures:

How many episodes does The Cultures have?

The podcast currently has 285 episodes available.