11 June 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
The future is a funny thing. We’ve talked on the show before about the many theories that abound about how we’ll evolve as a species and a society. Especially since the introduction of Google Glasses the future (or a future) feels closer than ever. This episode Kevin and I discuss the many ways that a continuous, [...]
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Aaron Franklin, advertising, Android, Anthony Bourdain, art, Atari, car names, cell phones, computers, Deep Space Nine, droid, Franklin Barbecue, gift economy, Google, Google Glasses, guilt, IBM, identity, journalism, Kevin, Motorola, No Reservations, Oscars, PC, perception, Personal Computer, post-structuralism, Project Glass, RAZR, Ready Player One, Rudy Rucker, singularity, social networking, society, Stephen, Texas Instruments, Zoolander
01 November 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen critique the nature of work from first principles and rip capitalism a new one.
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benefits, Boing Boing, Bureau of Labor Statistics, bureaucracy, capitalism, Cillian Murphy, communism, corporations, corporatism, economics, education, employment, gift economy, health insurance, Hyperbole and a Half, illegal immigration, Jerry Pournelle, Joel Olsteen, Joshua Glenn, Kevin, love, MacBeth, Mark Kingwell, Marxism, migrant work, minimum wage, neo-Marxism, personal identity, price fixing, Reading Rainbow, religion, slavery, Stephen, stock options, Tales of the Golden Clipper, teachers, telepathy, Texas Roller Derby, theatre, trust, TSA, United States, value, wage slavery, wages, work