Susan Hayes Culleton

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3,107 appearances 22 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 4 Sep

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Taking Stock · Circular economy, 'dead internet' theory & blockchain revolution · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

So when politicians talk about voice-verified

About widening bands or lifting thresholds. voice-verified

What they usually mean is letting more of your income stay in the lower 20% bracket before the higher 40% rate kicks in. voice-verified

And that matters now because if your wages rise but the threshold doesn't, more of your pay can drift into the higher rate. voice-verified

So, the reason I'm bringing this up today is that RTE reported on the 22nd of July that the summary economic statement set aside a 1.5 billion euro tax package for budget 2027. voice-verified

And the stated intention is particularly to helping workers keep more of that pay. voice-verified

So the exact measures, now they'll only come on budget day, but this is why the bans and thresholds matter. voice-verified

Changing them is one of the quickest ways that voice-verified

Government can affect that take home pay. voice-verified

Now we're used to thinking of the internet as a bustling marketplace of ideas and commerce, but there's a growing narrative now around the dead internet theory that much of what we see online is no longer human, but driven by bots. voice-verified

So today we're going to look at what that means economically, how it changes the value of attention, the business models of platforms and creators, and the future shape of the digital economy. voice-verified

We're joined now by Professor Barrio Sullivan from the School of Computer Science and IT. voice-verified

At University College Cork. voice-verified

First off, Barry, Cloudflare says bots accounted for fifty seven point five percent of web page requests in June, which now means if we can take that figure as fact and apply it across the internet, now there's more bot traffic on the internet than there are humans. voice-verified

What does that mean then across the board? voice-verified

But if we look from a business point of view voice-verified

Let's say that I was looking at a a website that I had been working on over the past couple of years, I might look at the amount of traffic that's rising, arriving, and seeing whether that's rising or falling. voice-verified

I might be looking at if I was selling something on it, how much of that traffic I'm converting into sales. voice-verified

I'd be looking at all those types of analytics. voice-verified

Whereas now, does any of that stack up anymore? voice-verified

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