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Uncanny Valley | WIRED
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4.1 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
It’s hard to remember what television on the internet was like before Netflix started streaming original programming on demand. But maybe that fact just underscores the massive influence the platform has had over the shows we watch and how we watch them. This week on Gadget Lab, Peter Kafka, cohost of season two of the Land of the Giants podcast from Recode, joins us to talk about the rise of Netflix, its influence on our culture, and how the pandemic has affected our use of the service. In the second half of the show, we broaden the discussion to talk about the state of streaming video in general, and Peter offers some advice on how to navigate the confusing trenches of the streaming wars.
Show Notes:
Listen to Recode’s Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect podcast here. Read more about HBO Max on WIRED.com. Read Kate Knibbs’ story about Palm Springs here. You can also read all of WIRED’s coverage of Netflix here.
Recommendations:
Peter recommends the show ZeroZeroZero on Amazon Prime and also Vermont. Lauren recommends the movie Palm Springs on Hulu. Mike recommends the free streaming service Kanopy.
Peter Kafka can be found on Twitter @pkafka. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our executive producer is Alex Kapelman (@alexkapelman). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Mike. |
| 0:01.0 | Lauren. |
| 0:02.0 | Mike, this is not how we normally open this show. |
| 0:05.0 | Right. Just saying each other's names is not the usual procedure around here. |
| 0:09.0 | But things are going to be a little bit different going forward. |
| 0:12.0 | Before we get into this week's show and before we bring on Peter Kafka to talk about Netflix |
| 0:18.0 | and the streaming wars, Lauren, I understand you have an announcement. |
| 0:21.8 | Yes, I'm very excited to announce that starting July 20th, we are going to be releasing |
| 0:27.4 | a new podcast every week called Get Wired. |
| 0:31.2 | It's a weekly narrative show that's going to explore the bizarre world of technology that we all live in right now. |
| 0:41.4 | It's going to feature a lot of our colleagues on the Wired staff, our fellow Wired |
| 0:45.2 | writers who are incredibly smart and working on some really incredibly compelling stories, |
| 0:50.1 | and they're going to pull back the curtain on those stories that they're working on. |
| 0:53.6 | And I'm going to be the host. |
| 0:55.9 | So I'm really excited. |
| 0:57.8 | We've been working on this for a while now. |
| 0:59.8 | And I'm just, I'm thrilled to be able to just, I don't know, launch it to the world, I guess. |
| 1:05.0 | What would you say to the loyal gadget lab listener who is now horrified that you are hosting another podcast on Wired. |
| 1:15.1 | I would tell them that they need not fear. I'm not going far. I mean, I'm literally not going far |
| 1:21.5 | because we're all still at home, but I'm still going to be co-hosting the gadget lab with my friend |
| 1:25.8 | Mike here. And Mike, there are also some changes to gadget lab that are coming, right? Right. So we're going to have some new segments that we're going to be introducing. We're going to make the show a little bit more about buying recommendations and a little bit more about consumer products. We're going to be talking about consumer choice. And in general, the show is just going to be more focused on the words that are in the title, |
| 1:47.9 | the gadget lab. So we're going to make it more of a gadget-focused show. Over the last, |
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