What’s a Hard Fork?

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore stories from the wild frontier of tech. What’s real? What’s hype? “Hard Fork” is here to help you make sense of it. Tune in every Friday.

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0:00.0	I'm Kevin Rus, a tech columnist at The New York Times.
0:02.8	And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
0:04.6	Casey, we should probably explain why our podcast is called Hard Fork.
0:09.8	Oh yeah.
0:10.8	So, A, our other names didn't get approved by The New York Times lawyers.
0:14.6	True.
0:15.2	And B, it's actually a good name for what we're going to be talking about.
0:18.3	A Hard Fork is a programming term for when you're building something,
0:21.6	but it gets really screwed up.
0:23.0	So you take the entire thing, break it, and start over.
0:26.0	Right.
0:26.6	And that's a little bit what it feels like right now in the tech industry.
0:29.7	Like, these companies that you and I have been writing about for the past decade,
0:33.2	like Facebook and Google and Amazon, they're all kind of struggling to stay relevant.
0:38.4	Yeah.
0:39.0	I mean, we've noticed a lot of the energy and money in Silicon Valley is shifting to
0:43.4	totally new ideas.
0:44.6	crypto, the metaverse, AI.
0:46.8	It feels like a real turning point when the old things are going away
0:50.0	and interesting new ones are coming in to replace them.
0:52.4	And all this is happening so fast and some of it's so strange.
0:56.8	Like, I just feel like I'm texting you constantly like, what is happening?
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