Introducing Crazy/Genius Season 3

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🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Privacy is now the most important idea on the internet—so what exactly is it? And if we care about our privacy, why aren’t we willing to pay to keep it? This week’s Radio Atlantic is a preview of the new season of Crazy/Genius, The Atlantic’s podcast about technology and culture. Staff writer Derek Thompson joins Isaac Dovere to discuss Season 3, which kicks off with an episode about privacy. Subscribe to Crazy/Genius: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Radio Atlantic listeners, this is Isaac Dauver, staff writer here at the Atlantic.
0:06.0	We're doing something a little different this week, giving you a preview of the season 3
0:09.4	premiere of one of our other great podcasts here at the Atlantic.
0:12.3	Crazy Genius, hosted by my colleague Derek
0:14.4	Thompson.
0:15.4	And we've got Derek right here.
0:17.2	So Derek, tell us about the show for those who haven't heard it before.
0:20.4	What is Crazy Genius? Crazy Genius is a show about technology.
0:25.0	This is our third season.
0:26.0	The first season took on some major tech headlines and questions,
0:30.0	like, should we break up Amazon?
0:31.0	Can we save local news from the advertising monopolists? And do
0:36.7	aliens exist? We answered Fermi's paradox. The second season was about
0:41.1	science and this our third season is all about fixing internet problems
0:45.5	The theme of the season is Unbreak the internet and so in each of the eight episodes this season we're going to examine one specific
0:53.5	internety problem from privacy to extremism on the platforms to
0:58.4	AI and criminal sentencing algorithms and basically explain what the problem is and then explain
1:04.8	how people can think about fixing that problem.
1:07.2	Including a very to me freaky doll that is involved in this week's episode.
1:14.1	Tell us about Kayla.
1:15.5	Kayla, my friend Kayla is a smart doll.
1:19.6	That means this is a doll that can actually
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