Tom Merritt

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2,109 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Tom Merritt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The FrogPants Studios Ultra Feed! · TMS 3023: Mo Nopoly, Mo Problems · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

There's no quantum computer. matched

There's no AI. matched

Weird. matched

No, this is a great question. matched

And I think it highlights a thing that we run into a lot. matched

And this is no shade on chain. matched

But I think we tend to feel for multiple reasons that things are coming faster and bigger than they are because of the way they're reported or the way they're talking. matched

Talked about on social media. matched

Uh, and I would refer you uh to Wendy's panel on Doom Scrolling at Nerd Dacular for possible solutions uh to that feeling. matched

Yeah. matched

First. matched

Um, but as someone who does this every day and has covered this every day, uh, I I haven't felt like the promise of drone delivery was that we would we would, you know, all be getting burritos uh by drone tomorrow. matched

Right. matched

I I have known that these are very small and difficult uh things to pull off. matched

And I think the reason you probably thought there was like all of this coverage and then none uh is because when it was new, it was like, oh my gosh, Walmart is delivering packages uh by drone. matched

Oh, oh, crazy. matched

Now this other wing from Alphabet is delivering packages by drone. matched

And so everybody covers it the day it launches. matched

But then when the next story is uh Walmart just added another neighborhood in Arkansas. matched

That doesn't get you clicks, right? matched

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