Distributed Future Podcast

Glowstep: A microcommunity helping people through career transitions. 14.12.2025 45:25 ↓

Established companies are laying off staff, the job market has changed, AI is a challenge. Meng and I discussed her microcommunity Glowstep, which helps people navigate the new jobs landscape together with their peers.

The state of the world and the future of social media. 14.12.2024 34:12 ↓

A chat about the future of AI and social media.

South African Solar power 21.05.2023 47:02 ↓

We discuss the finances, pros and cons of solar power in a country where the grid is unreliable.

Astronomy, Starlink, light pollution and Planet Nine 28.04.2023 52:44 ↓

Prof Sam Lawler describes the impact that huge numbers of new satellites are having on astronomy

Inclusive opensource 15.02.2023 1:07:18 ↓

Why inclusiveness is good for your opensource project and how to achive it.

The future of music distribution 05.02.2023 1:03:04 ↓

A chat about the past, present and future of music distribution with a musician who's been at it for more than 50 years.

Will we regret computers as much as we do cars? 17.12.2022 48:46 ↓

Vim and Tim get together to chat about techological regret, paths not taken and the decisions we are taking now.

How should opensource be funded? 24.11.2022 48:10 ↓

Our guest's pilot project is using government money to fund development and maintenance of essential opensource projects.

Education in large cohorts 06.08.2022 48:38 ↓

We discuss a new style of on-line learning, self paced and voluntary along with other community driven education activities.

Misogyny, pornography and malignant stereotypes in AI 29.07.2022 46:09 ↓

We discuss auditing computational models of human behavior and the large-scale datasets they are trained on. Our guest gives examples of the consequences of a badly curated model.

Building a community for crowdsourced medical research - EverythingALS.org 07.07.2022 46:06 ↓

How can a networked community contribute to medical advances? We talk to Indu Navar about EverythingALS and the change it brings to treatment of brain disease.

Modern and Quantum Cryptography - what does the future hold? 29.05.2022 56:09 ↓

What is new in cryptography? How quantum computers impact privacy? What are realistic timelines? Do we need to act today? Our guest answers all these questions and more!

Events, social media and video conferences 29.05.2022 1:04:33 ↓

What can classical stage managment teach us about the future of the Metaverse?

Disinfo, cults and the future of social media 21.11.2021 50:39 ↓

We talk about disinfo on social media and how to combat it.

The future as seen by science fiction 30.10.2021 54:09 ↓

We discuss how Science Fiction can (or can't) show us the future. We dig into the concept of an open-source panopticon and how it might work.

Climate change 15.08.2021 34:37 ↓

How can tech help society cope with climate change?

Opensource hardware and the Risc-V processor 05.08.2021 46:36 ↓

How will the rise of opensource hardware change society? Does politic impact chip design? We talk about why Risc-V matters an where it is going.

New Tech in education, what are the rules? 27.06.2021 54:10 ↓

Who chooses which Edtech students use? Can they protect their privacy? Who owns that school laptop anyway? None of these questions have simple answers, but we do our best to throw some light.

New Browser, Who dis ? 15.06.2021 49:12 ↓

Building a new browser. We talk about the browser landscape, why it is important and how to make a new one.

The speed of news media and our ability to respond 28.05.2021 33:36 ↓

We talk about the speed of the news cycle, how little we can change and the rate of change now and in the future.

Saffron: a case for modern farming? 09.05.2021 51:53 ↓

We talk about farming a high value crop in new way - our guests are farming saffron Cheshire.

The future of open source software 21.04.2021 52:19 ↓

Who contributes to opensource? What are their motivations? How will cloud computing change the picture? We talked with a creator of a successful open source project to find some answers.

Digital humans and identity 20.02.2021 40:18 ↓

How do you prove your identity online? How do we know you are real?

Politics, data and privacy 03.02.2021 52:18 ↓

How is data used in politics? How should it be used?

Intra-African travel,with beer, culture and laughter 14.01.2021 50:23 ↓

What does the future of intra-African tourism look like? "More than the big 5" says our guest, we talk about tech, beer, food, ferries etc. (CW - lots of laughter)