65: Visionary or Villain

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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Technology, Tech, Android, Ios, Google, Society & Culture, Electric Car, Smart Phone, Apple, Microsoft, Videogame, Space, Phone, Techpod, Tesla, Science, Video Game, Smartphone, Tech Pod, Games, Amazon

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Product design is on our minds this week, starting with the industry-redefining research that led to the production of modern, psychologically optimized junk food. Have the same sensibilities now overtaken the design of consumer electronics? Do soundbars and Cheetos have more in common than we realize? Is there a bliss point, but for tech? We explore this slightly abstract topic and attempt to arrive at a few answers. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Did you see that SpaceX thing yesterday?
0:01.6	No, I just heard it blew up.
0:03.0	Oh, man.
0:04.0	So, look, it goes up in the air 18 kilometers or 12 kilometers.
0:08.7	It was like high.
0:10.1	And then it gets to the point where it's at the top and it flips over.
0:14.4	Like just real fast.
0:16.5	Like a roller coaster kind of like.
0:18.2	Like I'm trying to think about what amusement park ride it would be.
0:23.0	But it is one that I probably would not get on at age 45.
0:26.6	Can I just take it for granted that this was an unplanned maneuver?
0:29.2	No, this was intentional.
0:30.4	This is how it's supposed to work.
0:31.7	Weird.
0:32.1	Because it goes up and then it like gets down and kind of like fat side down with the little winglets sticking out
0:37.7	the side so it can kind of steer and keep the upside up and the downside down this is one of
0:41.0	the space x vehicles this is the big the big i don't know the big chunk whatever the i did not keep up
0:46.4	i did not keep up with the news this is one of the reusable ones like what's the this is a test bed
0:51.5	for like the thing that is going to do a non-orbital around the world in like 90 minutes or halfway, you know, like from here to Hong Kong in like 75 minutes or something.
1:04.8	So like a ramjet?
1:06.1	No, it's a rocket.
1:07.6	Like you get on the rocket.
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