What’s Your Problem?
Today, we’re sharing an episode of a show that explores the problems that new technology is creating and how we navigate living in the future. It’s called Kill Switch, and it’s hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Dexter Thomas. The episode you’re about to hear is about the latest in wearable tech—stuff like smart glasses, pendants, watches and rings. After the implosion of Google Glass back in 2013, which faced backlash and ridicule, we’re now readily embracing wearables. What’s behind the new fervor of wearables today, and have we moved on from the privacy and surveillance questions that plagued Google Glass?
Dexter talks to Victoria Song, a senior reviewer at The Verge whose job it is to test out each new iteration of this technology, about the state of wearables today, why companies are obsessed with getting AI into them, and how they’ve already changed how we talk to each other, and ourselves, IRL. Find more episodes of Kill Switch wherever you get podcasts.
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From Kill Switch: The Glassholes Are Back
Today, we’re sharing an episode of a show that explores the problems that new technology is creating and how we navigate living in the future. It’s called Kill Switch, and it’s hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning…
From Kill Switch: The Glassholes Are Back
Today, we’re sharing an episode of a show that explores the problems that new technology is creating and how we navigate living in the future. It’s called Kill Switch, and it’s hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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