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Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#42: Looking Back ... to the Future (of Everything)
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a special encore presentation, a look back at the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, the three-day event filled with speakers, panels and demos sho...
#41: Fancy Phones and Fancier Credit Cards
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David and Joanna discuss the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10, the phone for people who get stuff done. (Stuff. Not other words.) It has a new stylus and so...
#40: Where Are the Good Netflix Movies?
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David, Joanna and Christopher start by discussing the future of retail, which at least partly involves all those brands you see in Instagram ads sudde...
#39: The Fight For Faster Internet
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, it's all about how to make the internet faster--and how the world changes when we do. David, Joanna and Christopher talk about Joanna's nat...
#38: How the Moon Landing Changed Tech Forever
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Even if you don't care about space travel, there's a good chance the work NASA did...
#37: Why the Family Phone Plan Rules
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David and Christopher start the show by discussing a technology that drove decades of innovation: the spreadsheet. Dan Bricklin, creator of VisiCalc -...
#36: How to Survive Holiday Travel
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Christopher on vacation (again), David and Joanna go through their best tips for surviving the coming July 4th travel craziness. They each bring ...
#35: Google Maps to Nowhere
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David, Joanna and Christopher unpack the coming fight between tech companies and regulators, and get into the messy meaning of an important term in th...
#34: Call Him Mr. 'Fortnite'
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna and David didn't want to talk about Facebook, but they had to: Facebook launched a new digital currency, Libra, that could upend the way we pay...
#33: Facebook's Potentially Problematic Privacy Practices: A Recap
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, WSJ broke news of internal Facebook Inc. emails that suggested the company lacked urgency to stop data leaks. With David out in Hong Kong a...
#32: The World According to Apple
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, was this week, and there's a lot of news that could impact you come the fall. David, Joanna and Christopher...
#31: My Way or the Huawei
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David and Christopher talk about Amazon's new strategy for winning the smart-home wars. Hint: It involves getting in with property managers and home b...
#30: Dispatches From the Future (of Everything)
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We have a special episode for you this week. We just finished the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, a three-day event filled with speakers, panels an...
#29: Don't Face ID Me, Bro
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Now that Big Tech's two biggest privacy invaders can't stop talking about privacy, David, Joanna and Christopher won't stop talking about them. Google...
#28: Uber for Everything and Everything for Uber
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To ring in the Uber IPO, David, Christopher and Joanna team up with WSJ reporter Eliot Brown to explore the vast scope of the newest publicly traded t...
#27: The New New New Facebook
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David, Christopher and Joanna attempt to explain TikTok, the hottest new thing in social media. It's like Vine meets Snapchat meets Instagram meets Sp...
#26: All Netflix and No Chill
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David, Joanna and Christopher talk about the bizarre non-launch and Joanna's non-review of the Samsung Galaxy Fold, and what it means for the future o...
#25: The Movies Come To You Now
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David, Joanna and Christopher dive into the algorithms that determine everything from social media feeds to jail sentences, and try to figure out how ...
#24: The First Black Hole, The Worst Car Dashboards
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First, the Wall Street Journal's digital science editor Daniela Hernandez joins David, Joanna and Christopher with all details of the first-ever image...
#23: How Amazon Changed Delivery and How Delivery Changes Everything
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, it's all about how we buy stuff and how that stuff gets to us. David, Joanna and Christopher bring on WSJ reporter Katie Bindley to talk ab...