Listen to a series of top tech podcasts and learn about the current trends and opinions in digital technology from
privacy to attention spans to the rise of Instagram.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/protecting-our-freedom-of-thought-with-nita-farahany/id1460030305?i=1000623289709
34.36 mins
JAN 2020
Do we underestimate the power of privacy?
Digital technology is stealing our personal data and with it our power to make free choices. In one of the top tech podcasts, Carissa Véliz, from the Institute for Ethics at the University of Oxford, explains why she thinks we need to pull the plug on the ‘surveillance economy’ and take back control.
28 mins
DEC 2020
Attention shoppers: you´re being tracked.
Have you ever stopped for a second and noticed the cameras in shopping centres? Have you ever thought that your facial profile is being tracked unknowingly and without your consent? Listen to this top podcast the use of AI and face recognition technologies in retail spaces, and what it means for the future of shopping.
32 mins
DEC 2020
Cyber privacy: Who has your data and why you should care.
A top podcast discussion exploring the issue of cyber privacy and why we should care like never before.
31 mins
OCT 2020
10 years of Instagram: how it has transformed our lives.
October 2020 marks 10 years since the launch of Instagram. In this podcast, tech journalist Sarah Frier looks at how it went from a tiny startup to a multibillion-dollar business, and the impact the social media company has had on our lives.
40 mins
OCT 2020
Are the Kids Alright?
A discussion with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt of New York University on how he believes that social media is to blame for the rise in teenage mental health crisis over the last decade.
43 mins
AUG 2019
Pardon the Interruptions
A lot has been commented on the issue of worker productivity in the workplace. But this discussion is one of very few podcasts addressing the issue of the attention spans of office workers and the stress that follows workers from their offices to their homes. Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine, tells the findings of her research.