The FATcast

Google is making the online world faster and easier by predicting what you’ll do, then doing it for you! Plus: Mike’s List and more.  https://ia801500.us.archive.org/10/items/fastcast24/fastcast24.mp3

Now that everything’s digital, connected, automated and efficient, what are we missing from the analog world? My guest today wrote a book called “The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter.” Here’s my conversation with David Sax.  https://ia601507.us.archive.org/4/items/FATcast23/FATcast23.mp3

Dylan Rose is kickstarting a new kind of wearable. It’s a virtual assistant appliance called Kai that clips onto any glasses and transmits audio through bone conduction. It’s a brilliant concept, but here’s the best part: Dylan is still in high school. Here’s my conversation with Dylan Rose. https://ia601508.us.archive.org/28/items/FATcast22/FATcast22.mp3

In the future, will we all eat crickets, algae and burgers grown in a lab? I asked the founder of Studio Industries at the recent reThinkFood conference in Napa, California. Later in the podcast, I’ll take you inside a San Francisco startup inventing the future of smart glasses. But first, here’s my conversation with Mike Lee. https://ia601508.us.archive.org/24/items/FATcast21/FATcast21.mp3

Grabbing a quick lunch at a busy restaurant puts you at the mercy of ordering and payment processes from the Spanish inquisition. Now, a startup called Allset is using technology to get you in and out in 30 minutes.  Here’s my conversation with Allset founder and CEO, Stas Matviyenko. https://ia601505.us.archive.org/28/items/FATcast20/FATcast20.mp3

Silicon Valley’s Zume Pizza can deliver in five minutes because artificial intelligence predicts your order, robots make the pizza and automated ovens inside the truck bake it just before delivery.  Here’s my conversation with Zume co-founder and co-CEO, Julia Collins. https://ia601507.us.archive.org/3/items/FATcast19/FATcast19.mp3

The label says it’s organic. But can you really trust the label?  Soon you’ll be able to test the food you buy, the water you drink and more with a handheld gadget from MyDx, a company founded by former Pfizer scientist Daniel Yazbeck.  Here’s my conversation with Daniel Yazbeck. https://ia601501.us.archive.org/8/items/fatcast18/fatcast18.mp3

The label says it’s organic. But can you really trust the label?  Soon you’ll be able to test the food you buy, the water you drink and more with a handheld gadget from MyDx, a company founded by former Pfizer scientist Daniel Yazbeck.  Here’s my conversation with Daniel Yazbeck. https://ia601501.us.archive.org/8/items/fatcast18/fatcast18.mp3

Sam Slover’s “Sage Project” is connecting people with better information about food. Sam and his colleagues are building a giant database of ingredients and augmenting it with health information, personalization and killer design. Here’s my conversation with Sam Slover. https://ia601506.us.archive.org/22/items/FATcast17/FATcast17.mp3

The Open Source FarmBot does it all, from planting seeds to watering to monitoring the soil to snuffing out weeds without pesticides. Best of all, the FarmBot enables people to grow fresh, organic agriculture in a way that’s environmentally friendly and costs far less than buying produce at the store. What’s not to love? Here’s my conversation with FarmBot founder Rory Aronson. Listen: https://ia601500.us.archive.org/0/items/fatcast16/fatcast16.mp3