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The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast

The Digital Life http://www.thedigitalife.com is an online radio show that explores important, timely topics in the world of design and emerging technologies like genomics, robotics, and the Internet of Things. The show is created by GoInvo http://www.goinvo.com, a studio designing the future of healthcare, whose clients include market leaders like Apple, Johnson and Johnson, and Walgreens, as well as micro startups that will create the markets of the future. Follow us on Twitter:

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00:19:48

AI Goes to the Ballpark

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/07/08

Just last week the Associated Press announced that it's covering Minor League Baseball games using AI software. The software from Automated Insights, draws upon supplied game data to create a written narrative. This AI is already being used by the Associated Press to create earnings stories on U.S. public companies and by corporate customers like Edmunds.com, which uses it to generate descriptions of cars for its Web site. So, AI can cover a baseball game, parsing the data and creating a narrative,

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00:24:17

Technology and Home

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/06/30

On The Digital Life this week we chat about the intersection of technology and the home, and how it's changing our lives. Furniture maker, Ikea recently released their third annual "Life at Home" report, which has some interesting insights into how tech is altering our home lives. In particular, there are some great revelations and analysis about privacy, light and noise pollution, and "things"—because, let's face it, we're probably own way too much stuff.

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00:20:28

The Future of UX

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/06/23

On The Digital Life this week we discuss the future of UX as envisioned in Dirk Knemeyer's article “Understanding Us: A New Frontier for User Experience” which was published in the recent UXmatters relaunch. It seems like today is a good time to be a UX professional, but what does the landscape look like professionally, and how is it going to change in the future? In the article, Dirk considers neuroscience, in particular, as an area that UX will both influence and be influenced by, as it converges

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00:22:49

The Next Wave of Innovation

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/06/16

In this episode of The Digital Life, we discuss the next wave of innovation in technology and new forms of design that will come along with it. Emerging technology needs design —from the IoT to AI, virtual reality to robotics, nanotechnology to 3D printing, genomics to synthetic biology. We talk about where we've been, and where we're going next.

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00:16:30

Urban Agriculture

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/06/09

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat about urban agriculture and its importance to the cities of the future. We’re quickly approaching 8 billion people on the planet. More than half of them live in cities, and this number will continue to grow. The agriculture industry is resource intensive, especially when it comes to water and energy usage. Around the world, as they plan for the cities of the future, people are looking at urban agriculture. Urban agriculture has many benefits.Because food

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00:16:40

Writing Human Code

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/06/02

On this episode of The Digital Life, we discuss the plan to create a complete artificial human genome. A few weeks ago, scientists, entrepreneurs, and government officials met in a closed door meeting at Harvard University at an eventintended to create interest and momentum around the follow-up to the Human Genome Project — apublic / private collaboration to synthesize a human genome. Over the past decade, the technology for encoding genes has improved at a fantastic rate. Since the early 2000s,

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00:19:36

Google I/O 2016

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/05/25

In this episode of The Digital Life, we discuss the myriad products launched at Google I/O 2016. To begin with, this summer the latest and greatest version of Android, the master platform for much of the Google software ecosystem, will make its debut. No longer just a mobile device OS, Android supports wearables (Android Wear 2.0), virtual reality (Daydream), and even automobile interfaces. In addition to the many flavors of Android, Google also showcased Allo, its AI-powered messaging app; Duo,

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00:17:29

Smart Cities and Sidewalk Labs

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/04/30

On this episode of The Digital Life we discuss Google's Sidewalk Labs and its radical plans to design a smart city from scratch. Sidewalk Labs wants to work with cities to build applications that solve big urban problems and accelerate innovation around the world. However, in their pursuit of these solutions, the company is seeking autonomy from many city regulations, so it can build free of the many constraints that come with the design of streets, parking, and utilities. Sidewalk Labs already

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00:17:13

Putting the E in Sports

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/04/22

On The Digital Life podcast this week, we chat about the ever changing world of eSports and how it's evolving. Esports are becoming increasingly important and varied. For instance, at the collegiate level, the Big 10 Network is broadcasting the League of Legends invitational event at PAX East, the major gaming conference. And new, virtual sport platforms are gaining in prominence as well. ESPN recently signed a multi-year deal with the International Drone Racing Association (IDRA to bring races

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00:16:49

AI Goes to Art School

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/04/15

Can an AI create art? This week on The Digital Life we chat about the brand new "Rembrandt", 3D printed by an artificial intelligence algorithm that was trained by analyzing the artist's catalog of 346 paintings. The Next Rembrandt project, which was recently unveiled in Amsterdam, is, of course, not exactly the work of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, but rather a portrait that replicates both the subject matter and the style of the artist with eerie accuracy. If art is an expression of

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00:19:57

Engineering Synthetic Biology

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/04/09

On The Digital Life this week, we chat about the intersection of computer science / engineering and synthetic biology and Cello, a programming language for living cells. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University (BU) synthetic biologists have created software that automates the design of DNA circuits for living cells. This software, called Cello, has the potential to help people, who are not necessarily skilled biologists, to quickly begin designing useful, working

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00:19:44

Artificial Intelligence

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/03/31

On The Digital Life this week, we chat about the evolution of artificial intelligence in light of recent public failure and success by tech giants in the AI space. First, Microsoft had to terminate Tay, its teenage chatbot, after the bot started tweeting neo-Nazi propaganda and other abusive language at people. Meanwhile, Google's DeepMind has created an AI capable of beating some of the very best human players in the world at Go, the Asian strategy board game.

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00:21:13

On Cloning

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/03/26

On The Digital Life this week, we discuss efforts to clone animal species to save them from extinction. In Seoul, Korea, a controversial lab plans to clone endangered animals using a technique called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), in which you extract the nucleus of skin cells from the animal you wish to clone, and then insert them into an egg with its nucleus removed. The lab has successfully used SCNT in their current business, cloning favorite pets who are recently deceased for a high

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00:24:08

Digital Afterlife

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/03/18

This week on The Digital Life we discuss how death, burial, and remembrance is changing as it intersects with technology. A host of factors, from demographic shifts and an increasing population to lack of land space and environmental concerns, are changing the ways in which we remember the departed. For instance, in a downtown Tokyo temple, Ruriden, a futuristic graveyard space, features thousands of glowing glass Buddha statues. Each of these statues will eventually represent a deceased person

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00:24:11

Future Crime and the Surveillance State

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/03/11

On The Digital Life this week, we discuss future crime and the surveillance state in light of China’s recent efforts to use predictive analytics and big data to stop terrorism. China Electronics Technology Group, a state-run defense contractor, is developing the software to analyze data on everything from employment to hobbies to purchasing habits of ordinary citizens to try to predict terrorist acts before they happen. The software, in more ways than one, echoes the fantastical pre-crime technology

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00:18:44

Robot World

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/03/01

This week on The Digital Life, we discuss a world filled with robots and what this could mean for humanity as we adjust to another type of "being" in our midst. It’s coming sooner than we might think. For instance, last week, Boston Dynamics, a Google company, released a video of their next generation Atlas robot, that shows it walking through the snowy woods, recovering from slips, and picking up a 10-pound box. To demonstrate the robot's resilience, a Boston Dynamics employee wielding a hockey

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00:17:55

Apple vs. FBI

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/02/26

This week on The Digital Life, we discuss privacy, security, and the hubbub around the FBI request of Apple to unlock an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that Apple would not comply with the FBI request, as it would force the company to build a backdoor to the iPhone, an outcome that no reasonable person would find acceptable. The US government and the FBI in particular has a history of misusing information in the name of security, dating back

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00:17:12

Rethink Innovation

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/02/12

This week on The Digital Life, we chat about the rapid evolution of design and innovation practice. Chinese companies are increasingly taking an assembly line approach to R&D, which allows them to accelerate the process using multi-functional problem solving teams. By industrializing the process, Chinese companies are looking to make innovative product development quick and inexpensive, using simultaneous, parallel engineering and design. Additionally, IP sharing is commonplace in China: Designs

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00:22:44

Future Transportation

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/02/05

The world of transportation and logistics is changing rapidly as emerging technologies start to overlap with more traditional industries. In this episode of The Digital Life, we go on a technology trend spotting journey, discussing the intersections of supply chain automation and autonomous trucks, ride sharing and car manufacturing, and drones and passenger vehicles.

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00:18:16

Automating Work

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2016/01/29

What does the future of work look like? As software, robots, and the IoT automate activities previously completed by humans, change is coming all too quickly. In fact, according to preliminary findings of a recent McKinsey report, 45 percent of all work activities could be automated today using technology already demonstrated. From fulfilling warehouse orders to suggesting medical treatments for ailments, this coming wave of automation will redefine jobs and business processes for factory workers

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