Triangulation (Video)

Tim Wu is the Author of The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Brains. Tim and Leo talk about the history of mass media advertising, from its beginnings in the 1830s with newspaper broadsheets to its current state on the internet. Tim argues that what you pay attention to defines your life, and you should think hard about how you want to spend your precious attention.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Tim Wu

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Joel Spolsky is the CEO and founder of Stack Overflow, the premiere question and answer site about computer programming. He also founded Fog Creek Software, created Trello, and is the author of Joel on Software, one of the first (and best) computer programming blogs. Joel and Leo talk about Joel's history with Microsoft, Juno, and Fog Creek, as well as why Stack Overflow works so well, and Fog Creek's newest programming environment, Gomix.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Joel Spolsky

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Jason Matheny is the Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). IARPA is the US intelligence community's "moon shot" department, similar to DARPA, but focused in intelligence. Jason discusses IARPA's research in data analysis, quantum computing, meme proliferation, and more.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Marc Pelletier and Jason Matheney

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Cathy O'Neil went from being a Wall Street quant to a member of Occupy Wall Street when she saw the ways that Big Data were being used to affect the lives of people every day. In Weapons of Math Destruction, she explores the algorithms that control us, from the way teachers are evaluated, to how loans are granted (or denied). She argues that rather than the impartial arbiters these algorithms are touted to be, they are dangerously opaque and flawed.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Cathy O'Neil

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Will Oremus has been covering Facebook since 2005, when he was the Editor in Chief of the Stanford Daily, and Mark Zuckerberg was known to the tiny user base of thefacebook.com simply as "The Creator." Megan Morrone, sitting in for Leo Laporte, talks with Will about Facebook's role in the 2016 election. Does Facebook have a responsibility to provide factual, balanced news to its users? How should its news algorithm work? What does a "like" mean?

Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Will Oremus

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Dan Ackerman is a tech journalist who writes for CNET. His latest book, The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World, is an exploration of the tumultuous history of the game Tetris. This history is part startup tale, part Cold War thriller, and part courtroom drama. The story of Tetris, its global spread, and its effect on the worlds of culture and science make for a fascinating book.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Dan Ackerman

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Mikkel Aaland is the author of The River in My Backyard, a combination memoir and photography book. He is also one of the earliest writers about digital photography, starting with the 1992 book Digital Photography. He talks with Leo about his history in digital photography, and the tragic events in his family's life that prompted him to write The River in My Backyard.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Mikkel Aaland

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One week and one day before the 2016 US elections, Leo talks to verifiedvoting.org founders Ron Rivest and David Dill about the dangers of election fraud and how to design a "perfect" voting system. Ron Rivest is an Institute Professor at MIT, and the "R" in the RSA and RC2, RC4, RC5, and RC6 encryption algorithms. David Dill is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and an advocate for integrity and transparency in modern elections. Ron and David talk with Leo about the difference between the rare and relatively harmless retail voting fraud possible with traditional paper ballots, and the potentially devastating wholesale election fraud possible with electronic voting machines. They explain why the ideal voting system today relies on paper ballots, and why voting online is, and may never be, a secure system.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ron Rivest and David Dill

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Jerry Kaplan has been working on artificial intelligence since the 1950s. He explains to Leo the difference between general artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. He also explains why he thinks the idea of the Singularity is nonsense, that the real thing the Turing Test describes is trickery rather than intelligence, and that much of the current hype over the development of AI is just that: hype. He does think that the current growth of machine learning can and will transform the economy - many jobs will be replaced through automation, but many other opportunities will be created.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Jerry Kaplan

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Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers co-hosted Call for Help in Toronto with Leo. Their new book, Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What it Means to Be Human, is about the very bodies with which we live.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers

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