Sep 28, 2022

Since Westworld debuted in 1973, we've been promised a world of consequence-free sex with robots. They're still coming, and PhD student Annette Masterson at Temple University has been studying their rise since 2018 and the unusual technologies required to make them happen. This episode made possible in part by the...

Sep 21, 2022

Sci-fi author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow on why Telsas are "Murder Cars" and how to talk to your kids about Surveillance Capitalism without scaring them off their smartphones.

Sep 14, 2022

Our smartphones are being used against us. Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow on the science behind his fiction "Attack Surface" and why we must protect ourselves. Part 1 of 2.