Mark Pesce - The Next Billion Seconds Podcast
1) THE AGETECH AEON #2 - CAN TECH CARE FOR US?
Abby Bloom, Catherine Ball and I (along with Sally Dominguez) are heading back to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to see the latest innovations in 'agetech' - technologies that help restore...Show More
2) AGETECH AEON - Ep 1
Abby Bloom wants us to face an uncomfortable truth: we need a lot more space and time for care in our culture. A rapidly aging population - living twenty to thirty years longer than the generations pr...Show More
3) ALWAYS IMPERFECT - COME TOGETHER FIGHT NOW
Could it be that the smartphone and social media brought us together only to make us completely intolerant? Research seems to be pointing that way - so what can we do? Also, fake receipts, fake voices...Show More
4) THE NEXT BILLION CARS - DRIVING ME BACKWARDS Part Two: China and Everyone Else
While the US put its car in reverse (at speed!) and European automakers chased their own tails about whether or not to abandon ICEs, the Chinese put the pedal to the metal in their high-tourque EVs, l...Show More
5) THE NEXT BILLION CARS: Driving me Backwards (Pt 1): USA! USA! USA!
What a difference a year makes. A transition to EVs that once seemed utterly inevitable has been thoroughly disrupted by a change of regime in the United States. Using every tool in its arsenal to bri...Show More
6) ALWAYS IMPERFECT - THE BIG END OF AI
Can a big business transform its processes and workflows using AI? With very few successful examples to follow, how does the Big End of Town even get started? L'Oreal Groupe - the biggest beauty produ...Show More
7) ALWAYS IMPERFECT - THE CLIMATE QUESTION
There's an elephant in the room along with artificial intelligence - its impact on the climate. Demand for electricity has skyrocketed as Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft build vast new d...Show More
8) ALWAYS IMPERFECT - ISN'T IT IRONIC?
Massive increases in productivity lure businesses into adopting artificial intelligence. But what if pursuit of that elusive 'superprodctivity' produces exactly the opposite? A rebroadcast of Radio Ne...Show More
9) ALWAYS IMPERFECT - BUILDING RESISTANCE
What would you do if you lost your job to an AI? Would you even know? It happened to me - and I didn't learn the truth for six months. In the aftermath I recognised how my work needed to change. That ...Show More
10) ALWAYS IMPERFECT - EPISODE 4 - STOP THE WOKE AI!
While the US focuses on putting the brakes on 'woke AI' (whatever that is) the rest of the world's nations confront thorny questions about how to regulate a technology that's both moving very quickly ...Show More