Like a self-driving Uber at a busy crosswalk, technological innovation keeps hurtling boldly ahead.
Whether you’re choking down a mug of Keurig between back-to-back Zoom calls, granting GPS permission to the iPhone app that flashes your vape pen’s firmware, or just silently praying for the haywire inventory bot at the supermarket to come out of Sentinel Mode so you can scramble to safety, Technology Blows is the audio tour guide for your information-age malaise.
Latest Episodes
The Guillotine: Grandfather Clock of Death (2/2)
In celebration of Bastille Day, enjoy this 2-part episode on the guillotine. Find out:How a death penalty abolitionist became the namesake the world's most famous exec...
The Guillotine: Grandfather Clock of Death (1/2)
In celebration of Bastille Day, enjoy this 2-part episode on the guillotine. Find out:How a death penalty abolitionist became the namesake the world's most famous exec...
Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (2/2)
The cash register: a machine invented because your boss doesn't trust you to count. Join me and my guest Daniel Ryan to learn:Why we can thank the father of cash regis...
Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (1/2)
The cash register: a machine invented because your boss doesn't trust you to count. Join me and my guest Daniel Ryan to learn:Why we can thank the father of cash regis...
Ticketmaster: How a Company that Does Nothing Came to Own Everything (Part 2)
On this week's episode, Meg Sinick joins me for the saga of Ticketmaster: the company that swallowed up and digested the live music industry by making a product that l...
