Is Your Phone Listening to You All the Time?

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i'm always, you know, very careful about my home address and my phone number. I think most people i talk to believe that their phone is listening tothem all the time. But it's actually probably not true, right? So it's hard to sometimes know,. cause, like, yes, the alexa is listening toyou, but your phone isn't. It's also written in a way that there's no way a regular person would understand them. The companies need to be held accountable for what they're doing. What’s your favourite thing about being a journalist? Getting to talk to such cool people who are working really hard at making the future better.

"The future's not ours to see..." OR IS IT? Professional futurologist Rose Eveleth -- host of the podcast Flash Forward -- endures all kinds of breathless questions from Alie about shiny metal and implanted microchips and biohacking and population density curves and flying cars and equality and utopias and the Jetsons and technology and nuclear fusion and whether or not our phones are spying on us and if we should have kids or dogs. Also: how long do we, as a species, have on Earth? Despite some grim conditions, find out why Rose remains an optimist and get fired the hell up about making the future better for everyone.

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