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The Next Billion Seconds with Mark Pesce, 100 episodes.

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THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP 5 THE AGE OF COGNITION

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THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP4 AI COMES HOME

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THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP 3: TALK TO THE CLAW

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THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 EP 2 -- THE WATERSHED

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THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI @ 70 Ep 1: AI TAKES THE PENSION

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Pokemon Go used to train killer drones (RNZ Nine to Noon rebroadcast)

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Unsafe AI? Anthropic's Fable 5 - an AI that may be too smart for its own good (RNZ "Nine To Noon" rebroadcast)

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RNZ "Nine To Noon" - Vulnageddon, RAMageddon and ChatGPT Goblins?

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RNZ rebroadcast- Does Anthropic's Mythos threaten us all?

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RNZ Nine to Noon Replay: Anthropic vs. the Department of War

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RNZ Nine To Noon Replay: French social media ban, Microsoft encryption sharing

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THE AGETECH AEON #2 - CAN TECH CARE FOR US?

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AGETECH AEON - Ep 1

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - COME TOGETHER FIGHT NOW

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THE NEXT BILLION CARS - DRIVING ME BACKWARDS Part Two: China and Everyone Else

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THE NEXT BILLION CARS: Driving me Backwards (Pt 1): USA! USA! USA!

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - THE BIG END OF AI

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - THE CLIMATE QUESTION

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - ISN'T IT IRONIC?

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - BUILDING RESISTANCE

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - STOP THE WOKE AI!

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - A BETTER WAY

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT: "VIBE SLOGGING"

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ALWAYS IMPERFECT: "NO MAGIC WANDS"

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TWO FUTURISTS GO 'VIBE FORECASTING'

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RNZ Nine to Noon: ADDICTION IS THE BUSINESS MODEL

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The Next Billion Cars - Experiences in 'Range Anxiety'

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RNZ Nine to Noon: DOES CHATGPT MAKE YOU STUPID?

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RNZ NINE TO NOON: CAN CHATGPT MAKE YOU CRAZY?

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Mo Meta, Mo Problems: Could Facebook be broken up?

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RNZ Nine To Noon - Should we give up copyright to beat China in the race for AI?

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AI WARTECH - Has technology turned to the dark side?

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Gradually. Then Suddenly

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The War over Plant-Based foods with Nick Hazell

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The New Alchemy

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The Next Billion Cars - 2024 in Review (part 2)

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The Next Billion Cars - 2024 in review (part 1)

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The $100,000,000,000 Lie

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Neo Malaise with Drew Smith

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Your Data, My Privacy - with Sally Dominguez

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The Next Billion Cars - with Drew Smith at SXSW Sydney

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SXSW 2024 ZEEKR: HOW DOES A NEW BRAND SURVIVE? With Gustaf Gunér

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Ghosts in the Machine

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Live at SXSW: A Fine Line between technology and anthropology with Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher of MIT Technology Review

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AI UNEMPLOYED

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CHIPS AND CHAINS

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THE FOUR-DAY WEEK IS ALREADY HERE

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The Future Has Arrived

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VALE: Vernor Vinge - creator of a "Technological Singularity"

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Cryptonomics - So long and thanks for all the grift!

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The Next Billion Cars - What Happens in Vegas, Part DEUX!

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CES 2024 - What Happens in Vegas, part one!

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The Next Billion Cars - Year in Review (2023)

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BONUS EP: Tip for Superpowers School Podcast - featuring Mark Pesce

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Chasing the Technology - 'Autonomous Agents' reach critical mass

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The Gunpowder Plot - How Meta put an AI chatbot on your smartphone and changed the game

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When It Changed -- How ChatGPT became the fastest growing app ever.

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The Next Billion Cars - "Hard Questions"

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Bonus Ep! Horace Dediu in conversation with Drew Smith

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The Next Billion Cars - Micromobility, and the ‘Rest of World’

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The Next Billion Cars - Hydrogen Vehicles: Liquid Dreams

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The Next Billion Cars: Electric Vehicles - Looking for a Charge

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The Next Billion Cars: The Future of Autonomous Vehicles - Learning to Crawl

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What's happening to the way we work?

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Will the next war be fought for control of semiconductors (Rebroadcast)

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A Brief History of the Metaverse: VIRTUALLY EVERYONE

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A Brief History of the Metaverse: Game On! And on and on and on...

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A Brief History of the Metaverse: Days of our Second Lives

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A Brief History of the Metaverse: DIY Metaverse

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A Brief History of the Metaverse: Military Metaverse

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A Brief History of the Metaverse: What is the Metaverse?

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Fool Me Once

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Metaverse and Weaponized Tech

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In the Ops Room with Palmer Luckey

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How to be a Futurist

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TNBS Rerun - Will the next war be fought for control of semiconductors?

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Palmer Luckey Goes to War

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TNBS Rerun - Why Virtual Reality is cool again

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Are You Crypto Crazy? Put it Somewhere Safe

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Are You Crypto Crazy? Hopium and Silver Linings

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Horizon Report FY2023: The Stars Align for an Energy Transition

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Horizon Report FY2023: Fasten Your Seatbelts, It's Going to be a Bumpy Ride

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Are You Crypto Crazy? Making Bank

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Are You Crypto Crazy? Ethereum: The Big If

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Are You Crypto Crazy? Bitcoin: The Firstborn

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Turn off the Digital Licence NOW!

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TNBS Rerun - Smart Money

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TNBS Rerun - Bananas for Bitcoin

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TNBS Rerun - Blockchain Beginnings

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Where's my Crypto Gone...? Don't Panic!

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Are we about to experience a global food crisis?

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TNBS Rerun - Ransomware (from the Criminal Domain podcast)

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What happens when good A.I. turns to the Dark Side?

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2022 Predictions: We ask the experts

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2022 Predictions: I'm a futurist, not a psychic!

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New and improved futures

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Mark Pesce - The Next Billion Seconds - Series 6 Trailer

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TNBS Rerun - Designing for Flood Resilience in a Wetter World

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What three changes can we make to effortlessly lower our carbon emissions?

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Can we radically reduce the emissions created growing our food?