Stephen Hood & Rupert Manfredi

A New Computer

Technology EN ↓ 2 episodes

A podcast about the end of personal computers as we know them, and what comes next. Each episode we talk with people who are doing work at the frontier of computing, people who are challenging assumptions about what computers are and what our relationship to them should be.

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Stephen Hood & Rupert Manfredi

Episodes

Will you own your next computer, or rent it? | Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Mozilla) 03.06.2026 42:45

In this episode we talk with Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla, in a broad conversation that touches on the role that open source — and our own values as builders — will play both in creating the new computer, and deciding who truly controls it. Co-hosts Stephen Hood and Rupert Manfredi also discuss their startup’s new product, Television , as well as HTML artifacts and… the pope? Links: Raffi Kriko...

A New Podcast 27.04.2026 37:37

In this first episode, co-hosts Stephen Hood and Rupert Manfredi discuss the podcast's themes, the origins of their passion for personal computers, and observations about two recent technological developments (the "Flipbook" generative UI demo, and the Hermes personal agent).