A device that records your entire life? Yeah, sure great idea...

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What if there was a device that could record every conversation, every interaction, and then transcribed your entire life? Well there is, the Pendant, and according to its creator, it isn’t like an episode of Black Mirror at all. In fact, its creator, and CEO of Limitless AI, Dan Siroker, believes it can "to free the human mind from its biological limitations". He joins the pod to speak to a sceptical Danny Fortson.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Just a quick note before we get to the rest of the show, you will notice that we do not really talk about the big story, tariffs.
0:11.9	That is, of course, rocking the markets globally. But that, dear listener, is by design.
0:17.7	We want to give a little bit of time for this story, which is just changing so much
0:21.5	by the day and come with a more fulsome discussion next week. We have a great guest lined
0:26.7	up to talk about it. And hopefully there'll be also a tad bit more clarity. But now, let's get
0:33.2	back to the rest of this week's episode.
0:44.0	Hello and welcome back to the Times Tech podcast with me, Katie Prescott, and you, Danny Fawtson, Katie, here in the city and Danny in the Valley.
0:47.3	Hello, Katie.
0:48.7	Hello, good to see you.
0:50.1	So what do you have for us today?
0:51.9	I have a question.
0:53.0	Go on.
0:53.4	Have you ever watched Black Mirror and thought this terrifying bit of technology that is ruining the fabric of society, we should do that?
1:04.4	This is a really embarrassing admission for a tech journalist, but I've actually never seen Black Mirror.
1:08.7	Oh, my gosh.
1:09.9	I know.
1:10.1	I feel like I'm going to get fired for admitting on there.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:13.1	Yeah.
1:13.2	Keep that one to do.
1:13.9	Sorry.
1:14.4	Well, so this obviously would answer my next question, which is going to be, have
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