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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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27:14

Adrian Lovett on fighting for a better web

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/10/10

Web Foundation president and CEO Adrian Lovett talks to John Thornhill about open data, net neutrality and widening global internet access.Web Foundation website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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22:26

Jocelyn Bell Burnell on new frontiers in astronomy

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/10/03

Clive Cookson talks to astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell about her decision to give away her $3m Breakthrough Prize in physics and about what she sees as the most exciting new areas of future research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:00

Tristan Harris on digital Frankensteins

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/09/26

The former Google employee turned campaigner has made it his mission to alert society about the dangers of using computer algorithms to capture our attention. He tells John Thornhill why he co-founded the Centre for Humane Technology and what it does. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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25:05

Liberty and morality in the AI era

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/09/19

Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics, Verity Harding of Google DeepMind, and Tabitha Goldstaub, co-founder of CognitionX, discuss liberty and morality in the AI era in a panel debate recorded at the FT’s recent FT Weekend Festival in London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:51

Irene Ng on redistributing the economic power of data

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/09/12

Entrepreneur and academic Irene Ng talks to John Thornhill about the Hub of all Things - a microserver that allows people to own and control their own data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:24

What's next for Dropbox?

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/09/05

Drew Houston, co-founder of the business software company, tells John Thornhill how he caught the entrepreneurial bug and what's next for Dropbox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:35

Tech Tonic returns

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/08/29

John Thorhill and guests return for a news series of Tech Tonic, the show that looks at the way technology is changing our lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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24:27

How can we make governments smarter?

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/05/09

Robyn Scott talks to John Thornhill about her company Apolitical, a global news and networking site that seeks to share knowledge and spread best practice among the world's top civil servants Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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22:09

The new AI battleground

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/05/02

Nicole Eagan, chief executive of Darktrace, tells John Thornhill corporate networks have become the new battleground in a cyberwar waged by criminals and state actors using artificial intelligence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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27:32

Terah Lyons on fashioning the AI future

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/04/25

John Thornhill talks to Terah Lyons, founding executive director of the Partnership on AI, a US initiative that brings civil society groups into a debate with big tech companies to promote the benefits of machine intelligence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:10

What we can learn from ancient DNA

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/04/18

David Reich, professor of genetics at Harvard, talks to Clive Cookson, the FT's science editor, about how the genomic revolution is affecting paleontology and the study of human pre-history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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25:30

Julia Shaw on a bot you can trust

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/04/11

Psychologist Julia Shaw talks to John Thornhill about her research into the fragility of human memory and how this helped her design a software tool that can be used to record and report workplace harassment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:52

The consumer awakening

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/04/04

How can we fix the digital future? Writer and Silicon Valley critic Andrew Keen tells John Thornhill our best resource is human agency and the power of consumers to reject products that they have lost faith in Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:05

Facebook and Google: platforms or publishers?

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/03/28

The big tech platforms where many people get their news wield significant power. How do they work with publishers, and are they doing enough to combat "fake" news? FT global media editor Matt Garrahan put the questions to a panel of experts at the FT's Future of News conference in New York earlier this month.Guests are Campbell Brown, head of news partnerships at Facebook, Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, Jason Kint, chief executive of Digital

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25:23

Removing bias from AI

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/03/21

Kriti Sharma talks to John Thornhill about her work for the UK software company Sage and about her mission to bring greater diversity and accountability to the algorithms that guide our decisions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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22:34

Rethinking the way we earn money

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/03/14

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes joins the FT's Hannah Kuchler to talk about economic inequality in the age of "big tech", and his proposal to shrink the income gap in the US. It's the subject of his bookFair Shot: Rethinking inequality and how we earn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:07

Erel Margalit on investing in peace

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/03/07

John Thornhill talks to Erel Margalit, founder and chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners, about his plan to help create a regional hub for tech startups and how he believes business collaboration in the region can help ease tensions when politicians fail. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:19

Is there anyone out there?

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/02/28

Clive Cookson, FT science editor, discusses the possibility of alien life and whether we would recognise it if we encountered it with British astrophysicist Paul Davies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:15

ENCORE: When data rules the world

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/02/21

In this encore episode, John Thornhill talks to author and historian Yuval Noah Harari about his vision of a future when humans are no longer the smartest algorithm on the planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:23

Road testing self-drive cars

FT Tech Tonic ·

2018/02/14

John Thornhill talks to nuTonomy's Gretchen Effgen about why the company chose Singapore as well as Boston to test its self-drive cars and why it uses a formal methods approach to developing its software. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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