264: Passwords Are Wrong, Man

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Our interests in reading and technology collide in this survey of books about computers and the tech industry, using the 20th anniversary of Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs” as the jumping off point. Soldering irons and circuit boards! Berkeley hippies fighting German hackers! Early signs of the tech industry’s ongoing mistreatment of workers! Glenning! Join us in a trip through technology’s past, all the while keeping an eye on where we are today.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Radio Theater is coming very, very soon.
0:04.6	And now, late model sprint ship division.
0:08.1	Time for the four most famous words in racing.
0:12.5	Galaxy Scouts, start your engines.
0:18.2	Isn't that five words?
0:19.4	It's just an expression.
0:20.4	Go to the incomparable.com slash radio or
0:23.4	search iTunes to subscribe today. The incomparable number 264, September 2015. Welcome back everybody
0:37.0	to The Incomparable.
0:37.9	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:38.8	We like to talk about books on this podcast, and we like to talk about nerdy things on this podcast, and we're going to mix it up.
0:44.5	We also like sometimes to talk about old things.
0:46.4	We're going to put all those together in a bowl and spin them around, and what you're going to get is old nerdy books about technology from the earlier days of technology. This is a really, a very
0:56.1	clever idea for a topic that was brought to us by Lisa Schmeiser herself, who is here. Hi, Lisa.
1:01.9	Hi, it's a pleasure to be here. Yes, well, you, you called it and we made it happen eventually.
1:07.2	So we're going to hear, we're here, we're going to talk about books such as,
1:13.0	uh, hackers, microsurfs, the cuckoo's egg, and soul of a new machine. These are books
1:18.0	from an era where we were all just sort of figuring out about technology and books were
1:22.9	some fictional, some non-fictional, uh, bringing to us this crazy new world of computers and the
1:28.4	internet. And some of them are actually, I think all of them are quite fascinating and some of
1:33.4	them are probably worth your time even today. Joining me and Lisa to talk about these nerdy books
1:39.2	are some nerdy people. I'm going to say it. What? David Lour is out there.
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