What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the...
Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.
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Reshuffling the Podcasting Deck
Hot Pod’s Nick Quah says the industry is on the precipice of big changes.
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Tech Barons Are the New Media Barons
A conversation with the Washington Post’s media columnist about the billionaires buying news organizations—including her own.
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If Then Presents: The Secret History of The Future
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Special Report: Apple’s New (Old) Gizmos
If Then breaks down the new gadgets from Apple’s big Annual Event.
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Google’s Real Biases
Despite what Ted Cruz might say, conservatives are the not the communities most harmed in internet searches.
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How The Future Of Music Streaming Will Sound
If Then chats about how artists are faring in the streaming music economy, and what Justice Brett Kavanaugh could mean for the future of the internet.
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Twitter Without the Nazis
The founder of Mastodon on how he built an alternative social network, and why people are flocking to it.
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Google’s Secret Censorship Project
Google’s secret project to censor search in China.
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Making Sense of Elon Musk
Tesla and SpaceX reporter Dana Hull on what drives tech’s most enigmatic CEO.
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Embracing Deplorable Status
A conversation with the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer on QAnon, Pizzagate, and why so many Trump supporters are falling for online conspiracy theories.
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Flying Cars Are Only A Few Years Away
The former head of “urban aviation” at Uber says they’re coming--the question is how soon.
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This Is How Fake News Spreads
The press has to cover "fake news." That helps it take hold.
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How a Top Twitter Exec Tackles Trolls
Vijaya Gadde explains why harassers must go, but conspiracy theorists can stay.
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The Surveillance State's Eyes at the U.S. Border
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The Supreme Court in the Cyber Age
Will this new Supreme Court Justice also be scared of the internet?
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Tech Workers Fight Back
How The Tech Workers Coalition Organizes Employees To Demand Better.
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Should Tech Companies Take a Stand Against Fami...
Big Tech came out strong against the travel ban. Will it fight as hard to end family separation at the border?
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The Failed Promise of the Gig Economy
Author Sarah Kessler explains how the “future of work” has helped computer programmers—and failed those who need it most.
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Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico.
People want power, not just electricity.
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Bloody Money and Blind Investors
How Theranos Happened.
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Google’s Chokehold on the Web
A Yelp executive explains his yearslong battle with the internet giant over how it ranks your search results.
37 min
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Welcome to the Swamp
A former DoJ antitrust official says the problems with the AT&T/Time Warner merger run much deeper than Michael Cohen.
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Baby, You Can Self-Drive My Car
Are Self-Driving Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers? Not yet, says a professor who builds them.
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Why an E-Waste Recycler Is Going to Prison
“I’m not a criminal,” insists Eric Lundgren, who has devoted his life to salvaging used electronics.
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The Cost of Online Immunity
The Surprising Controversy Behind a Law to Fight Online Sex Trafficking.
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