How Cons Inform Tech Behavior - Editor's Desk
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work. You can point at it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I can see your face and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everybody, Tom Married here. |
| 0:32.0 | As always, I do an editor's desk. |
| 0:34.0 | Often only people in the Patreon at certain levels get it. |
| 0:37.0 | But I want to share this one with everyone because I just got a sneak peek at something. |
| 0:42.0 | Then I think it's incredibly instructive for understanding the technological world around you. |
| 0:47.0 | When you wonder, why do people do that on Twitter? |
| 0:50.0 | Why do people pick up their phones so often? |
| 0:52.0 | Why do I like this or that app? |
| 0:55.0 | I think that the series World's Greatest Con is going to shed light on why otherwise reasonable people do things that don't seem particularly reasonable. |
| 1:09.0 | Brian Brushwood of course is the host of World's Greatest Con. |
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