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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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00:21:23

Designing Creative Culture with Juhan Sonin

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/03/22

This week on The Digital Life, for our 250th episode, we discuss designing a creative culture with guest Juhan Sonin, director of our studio, GoInvo. Many companies try to create a design-centered culture in order to drive innovation but fall flat. We talk about some of our studio tenets and approaches that have worked. In particular we dig into the concept of transparency: seeking to tell the truth to others, both within and without an organization, with the intention of doing the most possible

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00:22:00

The Speed of Lies

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/03/15

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat about a recent study, published in the journal Science by researchers at MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School of Management, showing that false news spreads more quickly online than truthful news. We explore the alarming implications for our ongoing political discussions and possible impacts on society of the spread of misinformation on social media.

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00:34:50

Net Neutrality

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/03/06

This week on The Digital Life, we chat about net neutrality, the digital divide, and fast, cheap Internet for all with guest Brough Turner, Founder of netBlazr. What is net neutrality and why is it important? And why should it matter to the average consumer? Often, access to the Internet is controlled by only a few providers in a given geographic area. Given this near monopoly in many regions of the country, the idea of net neutrality, or the idea that ISPs should enable access to all content

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00:18:27

Designing Voice User Interfaces

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/02/15

On this episode of The Digital Life, we talk about designing voice user interfaces with engineer Claire Sun, who just returned from the Conversational Interaction Conference. Today, the voice UI market is primarily focused on performing tasks and controlling devices related to the smart home. Voice recognition technology isn’t robust enough yet to function smoothly in noisy environments or tell the difference between multiple speakers. Additionally, the software that powers VUIs is still at the

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00:15:42

Digital Citizenship

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/02/15

On The Digital Life podcast this week, we chat about Estonia's E-Residency program, which encourages entrepreneurs to become virtual residents of the country, so they can have a European company. It's a really interesting and innovative way to think about citizenship, basically ignoring geography, but leveraging it at the same time. It's not unusual for countries to sell their citizenship, including the US, but this is slightly different. If innovators and entrepreneurs can go anywhere they want in

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00:18:37

Automation and Collaborative Robots

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/02/14

On The Digital Life podcast this week, we chat with guest Mary Ellen Sparrow, CEO of NextShift Robotics, about collaborative robotics and automation. NextShift focuses on developing robots that work in concert with people on the warehouse floor for e-commerce operations. Unlike other automation systems, the company's technology works within a warehouse's existing infrastructure, rather than requiring a massive overhaul and build out. Its robots are designed to work in complex and variable

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00:15:54

The Human Genome Project Write

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/02/08

On The Digital Life podcast this week, we chat about the Human Genome Project Write. Synthetic biologists are building the engineering blueprint for life: a human cell that contains all the DNA it needs to produce more human cells. Such a blueprint could be a significant step towards major medical breakthroughs, including wiping out genetic diseases. Synthetic biologists build DNA using specialized bio-informatics design software to write the code. In the lab, this DNA code is then chemically

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00:20:24

Water: Scarcity and Conservation

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/02/01

On The Digital Life this week, we chat about water scarcity, natural resources, and design. In Cape Town, South Africa, the current water shortage has reached crisis level. Residents are cutting water usage in every way possible— using water collected from showers to water plants and flush toilets. The authorities warn that Cape Town is just a few months away from having to shut off its taps: “Day Zero”. To prevent this from happening, starting Feb. 1, residents will be required to use no more

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00:31:17

Creativity and the Future of Work

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/01/26

This week on The Digital Life, we chat about design and creative professionals and what the future of work might look like for them. Our special guest on the show is Daniel Harvey, Head of Product Design and Brand at The Dots, a professional network for “no collar'” professionals. Alongside with the immense power and flexibility that technology can bring, comes an evolution in, not only how we get creative work done, but also why we do it. Values and behaviors are changing among job seekers in

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00:17:22

Cyber Policy and Cyber War

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/01/18

This week on The Digital Life, we chat about international law and cyber war. According to a World Economic Forum article, over 30 governments have acknowledged that they have offensive cyber capabilities including: espionage and spying; sabotage including denial-of-service attacks and attacks on the power grid; and, perhaps the most talked about recently, propaganda. The difficulties of developing policy to regulate and respond to emerging technology like these cyber war capabilities highlights

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00:17:23

Emerging Tech at CES 2018

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/01/12

This week on The Digital Life, we chat about all the new technology fun as CES 2018, the de facto emerging tech showcase, gets going in Las Vegas. The smart home battleground is heating up as AI virtual assistants, like Google and Amazon Alexa, are being built into everyday household items and appliances. For instance, the bathroom is fast becoming a smartroom with Alexa incorporated into products like Kohler's new mirror, which can personalize light levels for different tasks, and Moen's digital

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00:30:06

The Whiskey Algorithm

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2018/01/04

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat about science, emerging technology and whiskey with Sammy Karachi from Relativity Whiskey. American craft whiskey is having a big moment and, more and more, innovation in science and technology is changing how whiskey is being made. In particular, Relativity Whiskey, uses a special, data-driven, maturation technology to age the spirit more quickly, saving years of time in the process. How will software and algorithms shape the whiskey creation process in

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00:28:41

Tech Predictions for 2018

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/12/21

On this episode of The Digital Life, we wrap up the year with some emerging tech predictions for 2018. We discuss the expansion of AI services in significant ways, automated trucks on the road, Target's online struggles, Amazon's difficulties in exploiting niche businesses, and the streaming services war as Disney prepares to take on Netflix among other topics.

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00:23:15

Education and the Future Economy

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/12/08

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat about the future of education and skills our children may need in the next economy. A recent article featured on the World Economic Forum Web site, “Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream”, argues that attributes like relationships, curiosity, agility, creativity, and empathy, will be more important for the economy of 2030, rather than skills that could very well be subsumed by machine automation, like, for instance, coding. Join us as we

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00:18:05

Faking It

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/12/01

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat about the frontiers of CGI and how we might approach it as reality and the virtual become increasingly indistinguishable. In a video essay, “Goodbye Uncanny Valley” in Aeon online magazine, artist and animator, Alan Warburton, explores this topic, examining everything from Hollywood blockbuster to political propaganda to digital art. What are the agreements that we make as a society regarding what is fact and fiction? How do we make decisions about

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00:19:43

The New Company Town

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/11/25

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat about the new "company town" and real estate development by Google and Facebook. As a part of their attempt to attract the best and the brightest to their tech organizations, Google and Facebook are acquiring and developing swaths of real estate in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is one of the most expensive places to live in the US and real estate values there continue to skyrocket. This means that the affordability of housing can be a significant

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00:25:55

AI and the Juvet Agenda

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/11/17

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat about artificial intelligence (AI) and Juvet Agenda. In September of this year, a group of designers, innovators, and futurists gathered at the Juvet nature retreat in Norway to discuss AI, its trajectory and potential outcomes. The group explored making AI human centric, the big and small problems to solve using AI, and dealing with unintended consequences of the technology. The Juvet Agenda, an online publication that came out of the conference,

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00:24:05

Designing New Experiences

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/11/10

On this episode of The Digital Life, we chat with special guest Karen Kaushansky about designing new user experiences and interfaces for emerging technologies. Karen is an Experience Designer and Futurist, who works on products 5-10 years before they are on most people’s radars — designing new experiences from speech recognition to biometrics to autonomous vehicles. We discuss new technologies that should be on a designer’s radar now and how both the design field and the designer’s job is evolving

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00:20:51

3D Printing Metal and The Future of Manufacturing

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/11/03

For our podcast topic this week, we chat about new developments in additive fabrication / 3D printing and the implications for the future of manufacturing. In the past, additive fabrication systems have used powered metal materials, which are both dangerous to inhale and have a risk of exploding. However new 3D printing machines from Markforged and Desktop Metal are impressive on many fronts — faster, safer and much less expensive than previous technologies. These 3D printers use

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00:19:51

Techno-Utopia and Alphabet's Smart City

The Digital Life - Design and Technology Podcast ·

2017/10/27

For our podcast topic this week, we discuss the design proposal by Sidewalk Labs—a smart city technologies firm, owned by Alphabet, Google parent’s company—for the City of Toronto. Sidewalk Labs will be partnering with the city to create a mixed-use community on Toronto's waterfront. The aim of the pilot project is to build a smart city from the ground up, drawing on recent technological innovations in software analytics, the IoT, and self-driving cars, as well as improvements in methods of

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