Spawn of Sponcon

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode we travel to the near-future of advertising. Welcome to a future in which you can sign up to be a brand ambassador, and get paid for every time you mention a product in conversation. Simply download the app, and your phone will listen to your every word waiting to hear brand names, and pay you some money every time you mention one. Guests: Deborah Dahl, speech technology expert and principal of Conversational Technologies Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Lindsey Webber, writer, editor and cohost of the podcast Who? Weekly Bobby Finger, writer at Jezebel and cohost of the podcast Who? Weekly Kristen Strader, campaign coordinator for Public Citizen’s Commerical Alert program 🚀 Further reading and source notes can be found here 🚀 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:03.7	Flash forward. Flash Forward. I'm Rose and I'm your host.
0:14.2	Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:16.7	Every episode we take on a specific possible
0:19.6	or not so possible future scenario. We always start with a little field trip to the future
0:25.2	to check out what's going on,
0:26.9	and then we teleport back to today
0:29.3	to talk to experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:35.0	Got it? Great.
0:37.0	Before we go into the future this episode, I just want to thank everybody who filled out the
0:41.5	listener survey.
0:42.8	All 688 of you.
0:44.9	It really does help to have this information.
0:48.0	And congratulations to the five people who won goodie bags.
0:51.2	They are Jake Arlo, Jocelyn Ross, Elizabeth Duncan,
0:54.4	Javan Doolin, and Juan Carlos Varela. You should each get an email from me today
0:58.9	to get your mailing address and such and I will get those goodie bags out to you.
1:02.3	I'm still digging through all of the feedback from the survey but I wanted to share a few little things that have popped out so far.
1:08.5	Every time I do a survey like this, I always ask people what their favorite and least favorite episodes have been.
1:16.4	And every time the same episodes show up on both lists.
1:21.2	So for example, this time, folks both loved and hated the exercise pill episode.
1:27.8	The Algarismic Art episode is another one that showed up over and over again on both sides of that question.
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