343: A Whimsical Dream
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The big business of loneliness; high decibel drones; pseudo science; living with smart devices; Amazon & big business; Alexa eavesdropping; Facebook reads your posts; AI Clippy; Microsoft news; Netflix tweets; bundle battles; the Predator; Daniel Suarez; humans are horrible; Winterfell's Starbucks; feedback loop.
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.8 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:19.5 | And I am Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.8 | Got a little follow up here this week, Brian. |
| 0:23.8 | Okay. |
| 0:24.8 | I found an article over at Vox called The Big Business of Loneliness, a solitude or whatever |
| 0:29.8 | you want to call it nowadays as we talked about last episode. |
| 0:32.8 | Right. |
| 0:33.8 | And I've heard of this place called Tribe before in New York. |
| 0:37.4 | Have you heard of it? |
| 0:38.7 | No. |
| 0:39.7 | Okay. |
| 0:40.7 | It's kind of like a hostile, I guess. |
| 0:44.5 | You get shared rooms with people or you can get a single room, but all the bathrooms |
| 0:48.1 | in the kitchen are shared. |
| 0:49.3 | Okay. |
| 0:50.3 | And the whole point is to be able to make friends. |
| 0:53.3 | Okay. |
| 0:55.0 | Now, I don't know about you, but I've always subscribed to the notion of be friendly with |
| 1:00.8 | your neighbors, but never be friends with your neighbors. |
| 1:03.4 | Oh, I agree 100%. |
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