229 - What's Your Problem? - Jacob Goldstein

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🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, Jacob Goldstein, the longtime host of NPR’s Planet Money, talks about his new podcast about technology and business called What’s Your Problem? with Jacob Goldstein. Goldstein spent more than a decade as co-host of Planet Money reporting stories that make economic journalism approachable. In his new weekly show, What’s Your Problem?, Goldstein’s curiosity leads him into conversations with top global entrepreneurs and engineers about the cutting-edge problems they’re trying to solve. Each episode focuses on a new company and innovator and their challenges, from teaching computers to understand humans better to running a niche business where access to consumers hinges on tech company algorithms.Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	We're not even human beings, but we're like the famous Wiener dogs of Instagram who have like millions of followers.
0:06.0	See, and I didn't even know there were famous Wiener dogs of Instagram millions of followers.
0:11.0	I'm trying to get dog fluencer.
0:14.0	I'm not having any luck.
0:31.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:42.0	Episode 229
1:01.0	The advent of autonomy is like the biggest change to the airspace literally since flight began.
1:07.0	And I mean that in every sense of the word, right?
1:09.0	There's going to be more planes and flying cars flying in the airspace in 20 years.
1:12.0	By a factor of 100, then there are aircraft flying in the air today.
1:18.0	That is the voice of Kenan Wyroback.
1:21.0	He's the co-founder of a company called Zipline, a service that uses flying autonomous drones to deliver stuff.
1:30.0	By now, I'm sure you've seen all sorts of images and videos and stories about the coming age of drone delivery.
1:38.0	But in some places, it's already a reality.
1:41.0	It's already happening.
1:42.0	And in those places, the company's delivering stuff by flying drones are solving the problems keeping drone delivery from taking off.
1:52.0	And truly, that was an unintended pun that I could just take out.
1:55.0	But I'm going to leave it in because most of the time, the problems that prevent the new things,
2:01.0	the very new things, the futuristic things that will become the commonplace things in our lives one day,
2:08.0	are the problems that keep those things from taking off.
2:12.0	Things that no one could have predicted until someone actually tried to make those things real, and then manageable, and then affordable,
2:20.0	and then easy, and scalable, and so on.
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