EP 2 - Emerging Technology - The Aqeel Akber Extra Extra Extravaganza

Proudly sponsored by my own company. Get the app → https://getmeos.com/extra meos is where i keep thinking with the mic off. This episode → https://aqeelakber.com/extra/ep2 All episodes → https://aqeelakber.com/extra Emerging Technology — a conversation with Mei Weng Brough-Smyth at the Knox Cafe in Watson, with cafe staff and Esther saying hi. The Aqeel Akber Extra Extra Extravaganza, made by Aqeel in Canberra. In this episode 🧐 The facts >> Episode two records a conversation with Mei Weng Brough-Smyth at Knox Cafe in Watson. >> Cafe staff and Esther drop in briefly while the microphones stay on. >> The table turns on whether people still want what is good for them, and how trust is calibrated. >> Meos appears as an AI-native operating system built to prioritise the person using it. >> Advertising, attention hijacking, and the line between machine learning and everyday AI get unpacked. 🍃 Between the facts Self-interest, gut feeling, and product design share the same table. The talk drifts from scroll habits and limbic hijacking into targeted feeds, then into what privacy would need to look like if software genuinely served you. 🌬️ Beyond the facts Beneath the cafe noise sits a familiar tension: tools that promise care while engineering capture. Community, habit, and the quiet pull of defaults keep circling each other without settling into a neat verdict. 🔥 Why you should listen The arc runs from a plain question about good behaviour into the architecture underneath Meos and the contracts that keep your data yours. Stay for the full drift — from the urge to step off social feeds to tool-calling, local memory, and why enterprise-grade zero retention might belong on a phone. dsq.studio