The Future is Ow

The fellas are back after a hiatus spent hiring, firing and rewiring The Future Is Ow Joint Holdings Ltd. to bring you a leaner, more flexible and market-friendly podcasting entity. In this episode we turn the Eye of Sauron back on Amazon and their efforts to transform the people working for them into fleshy workbots who pee in bottles. We also seek context and deeper understanding via a quick journey back to This Time Last Century and the rise of scientific management, or, Taylorism. All that

and some other goofy stuff at the top of show.

In which we go over the stimmy bill, robot pedestrians, dumb AI, universal basic income, and the poison pill of mayoralty. Apologies in advance to German shepherds and retired New England Patriot's linebacker Teddy Bruschi.

Another big one as the boys pontificate on the subjective nature of art and beauty, dueling gubernatorial shitheads Abbot and Cuomo, and drone warfare. Then we examine a recent ruling by the UK's supreme court forestalling the gig-ification of jolly old England for the time being, and turn a jaundiced eye towards the gig economy in general and it's implications for all of our futures.

The fellas talk about the completely unforseeable and unpreventable weather event in Texas and the Midwest that left shelves bare at the electricity store, and then dive into the Beantown robotics firm whose krumping automatons of viral video fame definitely won't be running search and destroy missions in the Levant or replacing you at your branding agency in the next 10 years, mostly because they don't work.

We bring on our first ever guest in the form of friend and cultural maven Agnes Bae to delve into the tawdry and tumultuous miseducation of Britney Spears and what her ongoing saga says about our culture and spectacle-saturated society. We also tickle our toesies against the non-functional gas pedal of a prospective Apple Car and rejoice in the knowledge that Silicon Valley has squared the circle of equitable resource distribution with just two letters : VR.

We go very, very long to have a joint proustian reverie over the Mythbusters, hold our jeweler's loupe to the first few weeks of the Biden admin, celebrate some fresh, new market-friendly proposals to turn your local government over to MailChimp and much more.

In which we talk about Parler going away, censorship in the modern agora of online, Amazon some more, Gamestop a week late, and make explicit who are podcasting heroes are (hint: think brain dead).

Also I promise I'll learn how to talk into the mic for the next episode. If you can't hear what I'm saying just assume it was something smart and insightful.

Without anyone having asked, another podcast is thrust screaming and wobbly-legged into the world. Our podcast. In this our inaugural ep we do some bants and talk about facial recognition, the capitol riots, and the curtain call of the Trump era.