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Visionaries, Rebels and Machines

What do frog legs, cloud computing, and failure have in common?They’re all part of the messy, magnificent story of how we got here.I’m Jamie Dobson - author of Visionaries, Rebels and Machines — and in this podcast, I’ll take you on a journey through the ideas, accidents, and breakthroughs that shaped our digital world.From Edison’s lightbulb moment to the birth of the cloud…From the engineers who fled war to build machines of peace…To the technologists today trying to teach machines to think.This

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The Patent Heist that Defined Modern Tech Leadership

Visionaries, Rebels and Machines ·

2025/10/30

Discover how a sickly young Scot, sent to Canada to die, ended up inventing the telephone and changing the world. Was Alexander Graham Bell a genius inventor or just a lucky teacher in love with the right student? This episode dives into the love, rivalry, and surprising twists behind one of history’s most famous inventions.Learn more about our people:Jamie Dobson: LinkedInFind out more about the Visionaries, Rebels and Machines:BUY THE BOOK HEREListen to more episodes of the podcast here.Download

36:26

What God Hath Wrought

Visionaries, Rebels and Machines ·

2025/10/15

A young artist loses everything and stumbles onto an idea that could make messages outrun horses and ships. Rival inventors, shaky demos, and a code of dots and dashes turn doubt into worldwide buzz. Hear how one line between cities rewired ambition, politics, and the way news travels.Find out more about the Visionaries, Rebels and Machines:BUY THE BOOK HEREListen to more episodes of the podcast here.Download sample chapters here.Ask Jamie questions here.Learn more about our people:Jamie Dobson:

22:25

I Sing the Body Electric

Visionaries, Rebels and Machines ·

2025/10/15

What if the real story behind Frankenstein began not in fiction, but in a London prison with a corpse and a few jolts of electricity? In this episode, Jamie Dobson uncovers how a strange 18th-century experiment led to one of the biggest scientific rivalries of all time. Discover how a twitching frog’s leg helped spark the invention of the battery we use in our world today.Find out more about the Visionaries, Rebels and Machines:BUY THE BOOK HEREListen to more episodes of the podcast here.Download

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Visionaries, Rebels and Machines Trailer

Visionaries, Rebels and Machines ·

2025/07/25

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