Where The Sidewalk Ends - DTNS 3777
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As the way society works is dramatically changed by a pandemic, big tech is having to forecast long term developments based on an uncertain future landscape. How do they adapt and what will big tech look like in a few years time?
Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang and 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. |
| 0:31.8 | Attention. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in |
| 0:40.6 | Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:44.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:49.0 | Trains, now on Uber. |
| 0:50.7 | T's and C's apply. |
| 0:51.6 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:58.0 | Coming up on DTNS, smart watch sales are booming. Zoom plugs its security holes by buying Keybase |
| 1:02.0 | and how tech companies big and small will change forever. |
| 1:05.0 | But how? |
| 1:09.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday April 7th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:14.1 | From Oakland, California, I'm Justin Robert Young. And I'm Roger Chang from |
| 1:20.0 | LA County. We were, you're also the show's producer. We were just talking about oranges. |
| 1:24.8 | So many things about oranges. You would not believe the things we talked about oranges on |
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