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FT Tech Tonic

Financial Times

We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new technological age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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24:46

Jeni Tennison on data ethics

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/02/27

John Thornhill talks to Jeni Tennison, chief executive of the Open Data Institute, about her work in helping to develop best practice for the use and sharing of data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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25:47

James Williams on the attention economy

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/02/20

Former Google employee James Williams talks to John Thornhill about his book: Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy and why he turned to philosophy to try to understand how the tech industry is undermining our free will. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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27:05

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/02/13

John Thornhill talks to the social scientist Shoshana Zuboff about her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and what we need to do to reclaim the more benign impacts of the digital revolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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24:51

Will Marshall on mapping the earth

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/02/06

John Thornhill talks to Will Marshall, whose San-Francisco-based start-up is helping companies like Google and Monsanto, as well as governments and NGOs, to observe day-to-day changes on the earth’s surface using data gathered in space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:40

Taavet Hinrikus on disrupting the banks

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/01/30

John Thornhill talks to Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Transferwise, about shaking up the lucrative money transfer business and how he helped build a tech unicorn that is not only highly valued but is profitable too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:34

AI and software's 'singular moment'

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/01/23

John Thornhill talks to Chris Bishop, director of Microsoft’s Cambridge research lab, about the potential for exponential growth in the development of software, thanks to machine learning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:57

The risks and rewards of gene-editing

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/01/16

Robin Lovell-Badge, developmental biologist and geneticist, talks to FT science columnist Anjana Ahuja about the gene-edited babies controversy in China and about the potential for new gene-editing techniques to transform the treatment of diseases like cancer and muscular dystrophy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:30

Vivienne Ming on solving human problems

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/01/09

John Thornhill talks to Vivienne Ming,a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur and artificial intelligence guru about her work in trying to make technology work for the benefit of humans Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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27:57

Diego Piacentini on GovTech

FT Tech Tonic ·

2019/01/02

The former Amazon executive tells John Thornhill how he applied the lessons he’d learnt at the US technology company to help transform Italians’ experience of dealing with government. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:00

Trust in the digital age

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/12/26

John Thornhill talks to the academic and author Rachel Botsman about the evolution of trust in the digital age and the way technology has undermined our faith in institutions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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25:28

Graphcore's next generation chip technology

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/12/19

Nigel Toon, founder and chief executive of Graphcore, talks to John Thornhill about the chip technology his company is developing and its potential to speed the advance of machine learning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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35:26

What robots can teach humans

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/12/12

John Thornhill talks to Maja Pantic, Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computingat Imperial College in London, about her work testing the boundaries of human robot interaction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:21

Making the most of work chat

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/12/05

Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based Slack tells John Thornhill how his fascination for technology that facilitates human interaction came about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:10

Artificial intelligence that learns on the fly

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/11/28

Physicist Zdenka Kuncic tells FT science editor Clive Cookson about the difference between software-based and hardware-based approaches to artificial intelligence and her work to develop autonomous intelligent systems for potential use in space and in medical devices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:59

The business of cybercrime

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/11/21

Sociologist Jonathan Lusthaus spent seven years talking to cyber criminals. He tells Hannah Kuchler what he discovered about the extent of their involvement with organised crime and what he thinks it would take to persuade them to put their talents to better use. His book: Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime, was published by Harvard University Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:01

Technology and the human brain

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/11/14

Murali Doraiswamy, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Duke University Health System, tells Shannon Bond about his research into potential technological solutions to neurological and mental health disorders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:44

Investing in deep tech

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/11/07

Investor Alice Newcombe-Ellis tells John Thornhill about her strategy for discovering and investing in the next generation of disruptive technology companies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:45

Puncturing the AI hype

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/10/31

Zia Chishti's latest business venture Afiniti uses artificial intelligence to match customers and employees, but he tells John Thornhill he sees the technology as evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, and offers his thoughts on the dos and don'ts of investing in AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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24:29

Who sets the internet standards?

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/10/24

Hannah Kuchler talks to American social scientist and cyber security expert Andrea Little Limbago about the worrying lack of agreement among governments on how best to promote the beneficial aspects of the internet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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30:44

David Sanger on cyber warfare

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/10/17

John Thornhill talks to the New York Times journalist about his latest book: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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