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🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
0:08.0 | So we are joined today's |
0:15.0 | by a legend, at least as far as I am concerned, and my family is concerned. |
0:16.7 | Super excited to meet today's guest, David Pogue, |
0:20.2 | so many different outlets. |
0:21.6 | And I want to ask you first David if a hyper intelligent |
0:25.5 | alien wakes you up in the middle of the night and says what are you who are you how do |
0:29.8 | you define yourself you do so many things from writing to TV to activism, to just real intellectualism. |
0:36.0 | How do you define yourself to yourself? |
0:38.0 | I mean, I think the one thing everything I do has in common is I'm a science and tech explainer. So it's |
0:46.3 | varied over the years it was the New York Times for 13 years it was it's been |
0:50.8 | CBS News Sunday morning since 2002 it's It's |
0:55.0 | books, talks, it's podcasts, it's talks, it's podcasts with esteemed physicists. |
1:00.0 | So, but it's all, know communicating science and tech to lay people. |
1:06.7 | Yeah and you do a phenomenal job I want to talk to you later about issues of communication because you know the |
1:14.3 | old joke about scientists and engineers as I'm sure you've heard how do you know a |
1:18.0 | scientist or engineer is outgoing he looks at your shoes when he talks to you |
1:25.0 | That's my favorite joke. I tell that everywhere I go. |
1:26.0 | I know. |
1:27.0 | I got to get a new one. |
1:28.0 | If you ever come up with a new one, |
1:29.0 | promise you'll give me a credit, |
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