The Passion Gig Economy - DTNS 3789
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The social media service, Cameo, lets you buy short custom videos from celebrities. Is this tipping point for the "passion economy" and what will people request from their celebrities?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:03.7 | Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a pointing device called a mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.4 | Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see |
| 0:15.7 | your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the |
| 0:20.5 | next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.4 | The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More. |
| 0:27.6 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.6 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone |
| 0:46.4 | else's. |
| 0:49.4 | Trains now on Uber. |
| 0:50.8 | T's and C's apply. |
| 0:51.7 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:59.2 | Coming up on DTNS, Niantic actually becomes a lot more like real augmented reality. H.C's former CEO makes a play for the killer VR app and why the media stars to the future |
| 1:05.8 | will be famous to fewer people. |
| 1:10.4 | This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, May 26, 2020 in Los Angeles. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:15.6 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 1:18.2 | And from the ever-lit forests of Finland, I'm Patrick Bezia. |
| 1:23.9 | Litt, but not on fire. |
| 1:25.7 | And from some, and I'm Roger Chang, the show's producer. |
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