Techdirt Podcast Episode 140: WTF With Tim O'Reilly

from the big-picture dept

The rapid forward march of technology has long bred two leading camps of onlookers: the techno-optimists and the techno-pessimists. Honest people on both sides, however, must admit that technological innovation has had both positive and negative effects. Internet legend Tim O'Reilly is one of the people who think a lot about these issues, and his new book WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us — which discusses in detail the world that we are building with technology — was released today, and we're pleased to have him join us on this week's episode to talk about the book and the future of innovation.

(Apologies for the lack of an episode last week — an ongoing outage at our cloud recording platform has left us unable to access the audio files. Though that episode is a bit out of date now, we're hoping we'll be able to get it out later this week.)

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  1. identicon
    Implosiveness, 10 Oct 2017 @ 1:45pm

    Techdirt podcast not updating on Stitcher?

    The Stitcher podcast app is no longer updating with TechDirt.
    https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/techdirt-podcast
    I will also contact them about this....

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  2. icon
    Mike Masnick (profile), 10 Oct 2017 @ 2:24pm

    Re: Techdirt podcast not updating on Stitcher?

    Looking right now and it appears updated. Perhaps you pinging them worked?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 10 Oct 2017 @ 3:20pm

    “... an ongoing outage at our cloud recording platform ....”

    Have you not been paying attention to the cautionary tales about relying on the cloud?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 10 Oct 2017 @ 4:15pm

    Re: Re: Techdirt podcast not updating on Stitcher?

    I think the actual "problem" is that I didn't notice that you skipped a week; Stitcher was showing the Sept 26 cast but nothing for Oct 3. User error, PEBCAK, mea culpa, sorry....

    link to this | view in thread ]


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