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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The sudden departure of Intel’s C.E.O. reignites concerns about U.S. dependence on foreign manufacturing.

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0:00.0	Well, Casey, we got so much feedback on our top 100 iconic technologies list from last week.
0:08.0	I don't think we've ever gotten more email about an episode.
0:10.8	No, we have it.
0:11.8	And thanks to everybody who wrote in.
0:13.5	And I'll say it, you really did find the actual omissions on the 100 iconic technologies.
0:19.7	And if we did it again, today, I think we would probably make between 12 and 15 swaps.
0:25.5	What were the most frequent suggestions we got of things that we left off the list?
0:30.0	Most frequent suggestions were language, glass, lasers.
0:36.0	Lasers. So many lasers.
0:37.9	A lot of laser fans out there.
0:40.3	Wikipedia, the steam engine, and one person said teladildonics, and I thought, I don't know
0:46.4	if that really belongs on the list with the rest, but...
0:48.7	I don't even know what that means, but I don't think I want to know what it means.
0:51.8	Yeah, you don't want to know about that. You're having a great day.
1:00.4	But yeah, so we did definitely miss some, and I guess we'll just consider all those honorable mentions. Yeah, it's wild. People love a list. They love to argue, and I think
1:07.5	we should do that again sometime. I would love to.
1:16.9	I'm Kevin Russe, a tech columnist of the New York Times.
1:18.7	I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.
1:19.9	And this is Hard Fork.
1:22.2	This week, what went wrong at Intel?
1:25.9	The Times Don Clark joins us to tell us why Pat Gelsinger was ousted and what it means for our chip war with China.
1:28.9	Then, Kevin and I report back from an AI conference where the subject on everyone's mind was existential doom.
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