Sasha Barbagallo

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629 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Briefing · Hezbollah rejects ceasefire + The 60-year plan to make you love robots · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Step by step, the psychological distance between us and them is being worn down.

And we're essentially being primed for a future where the machine stops being a piece of hardware we use and becomes our neighbor that we just step around on the footpath.

And that's not me being kooky.

All you have to do is look at the base of Mount Fuji, where Toyota is already building that future.

A real town called Woven City.

Real people, real streets, shared with autonomous vehicles, delivery robots, and AI systems built into the walls.

In Woven City, you're not encountering a robot in your world and suppressing the urge to kick it in the chest, because the city is built around it being there, and you know that.

That's not a t-shirt and a pair of Vans.

That's architecture doing the psychological work.

And it's a blueprint hitting closer to home than you might think.

Right now, in Western Sydney, Bradfield City is being built.

It's a multi-billion dollar smart city meticulously designed from the dirt up to host automated transit and advanced industrial robotics.

with digital sensors baked directly into the pavement.

That's not to say that we're going to be walking the streets of Bradfield with robots for now, but the infrastructure's there for it to happen.

So next time you see a robot like Frank wandering Flinders Street or Fyvor dancing in Athens, ask yourself, are we welcoming them into our world, or are we just getting used to living in theirs?

And who exactly does that benefit?

And look, I do want to hear from you on this one.

Jump into the comments or hit us up on socials at The Briefing Podcast because I want to keep this conversation going.

That is it for this episode of The Briefing.

I know it was a little bit of a different one this time around, but if you did enjoy it, please leave us a comment or a review wherever you are listening or hit us up on socials wherever it is that you find us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, whatever.

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