Note to Self
WNYC Studios
Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? Note to Self explores these and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age.
WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy and many others.
© WNYC Studios
WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy and many others.
© WNYC Studios
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Nov 4, 2013 • 6min
Tiny Estonia Beats the U.S. on E-Voting
The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia puts the United States to shame when it comes to electronic voting (not to mention marinated eel served cold and teaching little kids to code.)
Oct 30, 2013 • 21min
Safety Nets: Broadband & Wifi in a Post-Sandy World
This week New Tech City looks at New York's internet connectivity a year after Sandy knocked out communications for so many New Yorkers.
Oct 28, 2013 • 11min
Who Is Jeff Bezos? And What is Amazon?
He wants to find in a cheaper way to get to outer space. He’s building a clock that ticks once a year, moves its "century hand" once every hundred years and chimes once a millennium. Oh, and he’s also the CEO of the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon. He is Jeff Bezos.
Oct 23, 2013 • 21min
Coffee and E-Cigarettes
No heavy subject matter this week. Instead, we're diving into two subcultures that have been transformed by tech: Coffee and cigarettes. If you've never heard of a burr grinder or cartomizer, this podcast is for you.
Oct 16, 2013 • 18min
Freelance Nation: “The Greatest Economic Transformation in Human History”?
More and more micro-entrepreneurs are using online services like Etsy, Kickstarter, Uber and Lyft to create their own jobs. Welcome to the new DIY economy.
Oct 9, 2013 • 21min
When the FBI Knocks: A Techie’s Moment of Truth
The recent revelation that companies like Google and Facebook routinely hand over data about users' digital communications to the National Security Agency has many Americans wondering whether everything they do online is being tracked by the government.
Oct 4, 2013 • 4min
How Twitter Created Connections But Drove the Founders Apart
As Twitter's lawyers prepare to take the company public, they aired some of the company's financial dirty laundry in a regulatory filing this week, confirming that the social media service continues to lose money.
Oct 2, 2013 • 17min
Mutated Code and the Amish Algorithm
Two groups of people that shy away from many technologies — Amish and Mennonites — are actually on the cutting edge when it comes to genetics.
Sep 25, 2013 • 18min
Obamacare and the Biometric Bracelet Experiment
It’s Obamacare-time!
Sep 18, 2013 • 15min
NYC Tech: Who’s Your Daddy?
Mayor Bloomberg likes to take credit for transforming New York City into the second biggest technology economy in the country. Does he deserve it?
