Welcome everybody to the Tech Name Ride Home experience. Today is Wednesday, April 5th. We are joined by David Hourback. David Hourback is an author.

He's a technologist.

He's worked at Microsoft back in the day on MSM Messenger.

He's worked at Google, back on the web crawler.

So we wanted to talk to David because personally I was in Greece in Athens recently

and I was giving a talk for the economist.

Kind of about how I really think about this current moment that we're in with regards to artificial intelligence and society and social media and all of these things.

And I actually listened to an interview

with a friend of mine, Daniel Munham, with David.

And a lot of the things that he was talking about

related to his new book, Meganets, being really pertinent to our audience, to our interests, to what we've been talking about.

And so we invited David on to come give us a talk, or I guess to talk with us about some of these topics and so with that I guess you know welcome to show David

Thanks for having me Chris and Brian yes welcome welcome

Chris since I am not as familiar with David's work as you are,

because I didn't listen to that episode.

She did not do your homework.

I know.

The tee it off because I already know what I want to get into with him, but

start it in the direction you want to go and I'll follow.

Yeah, you know, I think I think the thing that's going to be most useful to understand,

because I felt a lot of resonant when I was listening to David kind of like,

they'll tell the story and then also like thinking about my own journey, you know with social media and technology

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