S1E10: Infinite Scroll

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Renaissance scholars couldn’t keep up with new information (“Have you read the latest Erasmus book?” “I don’t have time!”) and needed a better way to organize it. Thus came the invention of tables of contents, indexes, book reviews, encyclopedias, and other shortcuts. What kinds of technological solutions might help us cope with the information overload we all experience today? Guests include: Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack; Nathan Jurgenson, Snapchat sociologist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, look, an alert just came in.
0:03.3	President Trump's lawyers.
0:04.8	Oh, I don't care.
0:06.9	Oh, there's another alert.
0:08.3	Oh, it's a text on my wife.
0:09.4	I actually care about this one.
0:12.2	Oh, and another one.
0:13.3	Sorry, I really must turn this off.
0:17.8	Tell me a story, Tom.
0:19.7	Okay, here's a story.
0:23.7	It's 1983 and Intel has a problem.
0:26.2	Everyone is playing that sound logo.
0:27.8	Exactly, you've got it.
0:32.2	So Intel has this problem, which is that it's getting absolutely killed by the Japanese.
0:35.3	At the time, Intel mainly makes memory chips.
0:39.3	That's where most of the market is, and it's losing the market,
0:45.7	having dominated it in the early 70s. It's down to like 2% market share in 1983. And this is because the Japanese have figured out how to make memory chips much more efficiently than Intel.
0:51.1	And Andy Grove, the boss of Intel, needs to fight back. He needs to figure out
0:54.5	what to do. Part of the answer is he's going to get out of memory chips and he's going to get
0:59.1	into microprocessors. He's going to switch the strategy of the company. But the other thing he's
1:03.5	going to do is he's going to sort of fight back against what he thinks is a institutional
1:08.2	advantage that the Japanese have. And this is that the Japanese engineering teams
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