China Cracks Down, Fox Launches a Weather Channel, Visa Buys an NFT, and More
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Youngme, Mihir and Felix talk about how to make sense of China’s crackdown on industries ranging from Big Tech to Videogaming. They also share thoughts on other stories in the news, including people behaving badly on planes, Fox launching a Weather Channel, Visa buying an NFT, and Boston Dynamics’ latest robot video.
Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:
· Boston Dynamics Robots in Action
· What Bobby McIlvane Left Behind (by Jennifer Senior in The Atlantic)
· NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021 (Spike Lee documentary on HBO)
· Crash Landing on You (Netflix)
· Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Netflix)
We invite you to email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: afterhours@hbs.edu. You can also follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:07.3 | This is The Big Tech Podcast, one important story from Bloomberg's global newsroom |
| 0:12.2 | every day. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Wes Casovah. |
| 0:14.2 | On The Big Tech, we answer the questions you're asking and we bring you news and investigations |
| 0:18.3 | from our reporters around the world. |
| 0:20.4 | As we know, a lot of like bank run situations, it's just psychology. |
| 0:24.0 | It's contagious. |
| 0:25.0 | This is a crazier moment than usual. |
| 0:26.6 | If you think of the chatbot as being like a car, these models, they're like the engine. |
| 0:30.8 | This is The Big Tech from Bloomberg News and I Heart Radio. |
| 0:33.6 | Join me weekdays, wherever you listen. |
| 0:38.6 | Hi everyone, you're listening to After Hours. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm young me. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm Felix. |
| 0:52.1 | And I'm here. |
| 0:53.1 | Hey guys, how does it feel to be back on campus? |
| 0:55.2 | It is fantastic actually. |
| 0:57.2 | It's great. |
| 0:58.2 | I mean, I got to tell you, it's a little bit of like changes hard, right? |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.4 | So I got good at Zoom and now I'm like, oh, yeah, this is what other people is like, you |
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