Space isn’t the final frontier. It’s the latest focus for big capital, with Elon Musk’s SpaceX leading the way. Other companies are literally piggybacking the opportunity to use space for all kinds of things, from surveillance to microlab exper

Facial Recognition: Time To Empty The Trash Pile

Jul 2nd, 2020 32m 40s

We’ve always tried to take a positive look at technology on this show, but sometimes that’s just not possible. The last few weeks, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the protests that erupted around the world, has shone a light on some of

STATEMENT

Jun 13th, 2020 2m 18s

Hello everyone. We’ve spent the past week in silence, listening to other voices and watching evidence. We want to state that we stand against anti-Black racism and that we support the Black Lives Matter movement. As three white men, we’ve bee

Sidewalk Toronto: We Never Knew Ye

May 21st, 2020 25m 24s

We’re still social distancing, keeping an eye on how our relationship with technology is changing throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Sidewalk Toronto is not going to happen. Is it because Covid-19? Kind of. It’s also a long story of innovative

The Great Gig in the Virtual Sky

May 7th, 2020 26m 36s

We’re back discussing tech in the time of the Covid-19 Pandemic: space-based internet from headline-shy Elon Musk; ex-football player uses AI to predict Covid-19 outbreaks (alright, ‘soccer player’); the Instagram founders are back tracking Cov

Tech Giants Assemble! (Or can covid-tracking apps be truly private?)

Apr 29th, 2020 24m 11s

Can we track Covid-19 community spread without giving up our privacy? Apple and google tell us we can - but they would, wouldn’t they? Aaron and Pietro discuss how the tech superpowers have teamed up to produce an app that promises anonymous co

Frozen 2 on Repeat (and other technology news)

Apr 22nd, 2020 21m 10s

We’re back with Season 2 but not like we planned. Hosts Aaron Towlson and Pietro Gagliano have been recording remotely, following how the tech community is responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic. We discuss 3D printing, autonomous robots and specu

Creativity is Universal w/ Matt Russo

Dec 20th, 2019 1h 1m

Matt Russo has managed to combine his two passions, astrophysics and music, into a career. A physics lecturer at the University of Toronto by trade, Matt has developed a system of turning planetary motions into music, System Sounds. We discuss

Coders Run the World? w/ Katie Davis

Dec 5th, 2019 55m 16s

From Sidewalk Labs building the City of the Future to Microsoft valiantly Defending Democracy, big tech is doing its best to impact society for the better..? We hope.Katie Davis is a web developer at Shopify, one of Canada’s startup-to-success

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Tangents 2: Questions of Consciousnesses

Dec 2nd, 2019 28m 20s

Sometimes our guests talk about technology that’s so wild, we just have to take another off-topic look at it.This time, we discuss Amazon's smart shelves, but also what happens when the law has access to smart image-capturing devices; we discus

De-Extinction and Other Dilemmas with Britt Wray

Nov 21st, 2019 59m 34s

Britt Wray wrote a book about de-extinction, or should that be ‘necrofauna’? We discuss what de-extinction means and if it’s even possible to bring back an extinct species. Either way, the tools researchers are developing, such as CRISPR-Cas9,

The Future of Advertising with Dré Labre

Nov 14th, 2019 58m 41s

Advertisers finally know what we, us, the individuals actually want. It’s creepy but also kinda useful. Award winning creative director and futurist Dré Labre talks us through the ways new technology is giving advertisers more of what they’ve a

Tangents 1: Palmer Luckey is 'Disrupting the Defense Industry'..?

Nov 11th, 2019 23m 14s

Our co-hosts go off topic for a quick look at some of the issues raised in the series. Pietro discusses his 'dynamic film' and the highs and lows of founding his new company, Transitional Forms; we look into what Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luck

Transhuman Futures with Ann Shin

Nov 7th, 2019 58m 39s

Biohacking, transhumanism, Silicon Valley bros… just some of the subjects we discuss with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ann Shin. After discussing why VR hasn’t quite realized its potential as the ‘ultimate empathy machine’, we explore a

Science Fiction Made the Future with Ross Bullen

Oct 31st, 2019 58m 27s

Ross Bullen, Assistant Professor of English at OCAD University in Toronto, joins us on this episode. Ross teaches a course on Science Fiction, and might have read or seen every scifi ever made. He talks us through the history of science fiction

Pilot: Creative Machines

Oct 24th, 2019 56m 32s

Aaron interviews co-host Pietro Gagliano about his story with technology. In this pilot episode they discuss Pietro's early lego movies; why Avatar changed film forever; how a company Pietro co-founded won the first ever Emmy for a VR project;

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