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You eat healthily. Exercise. Meditate to avoid stress. You care about the environment. And you allow tech companies to sell that data to companies intent on undoing all your good work. Welcome to the Won’t Pay Paradox.

Chimeras, a mainstay of fantasy fiction, are now scientific fact. From this strange new perspective we ask: Would you give a monkey a human brain?

In July 1979, mobile technology was born in Tokyo. It wasn’t the Internet or the mobile phone. It was the Sony Walkmen that transformed the way we experience the world. Sources: Episode Sources: https://www.businessinsider.com/history-listening-to-music-recorded-walkman-2019-6?r=US&IR=T#in-1981-the-new-york-times-wrote-that-the-cassette-player-was-the-most-eagerly-wished-for-of-all-gifts-the-d...

The robots are coming. Not a new message for MSP. It’s not the robots that want to take your jobs. It’s their human overlords and the people who enable them.

What does it mean to be human in a world full of sentient machines and technologically enhanced people? In another Disrupted World special, we take a look at the future of the human species and get ready to welcome our quantum cousins.

In the final part of our Disrupted World series, MSP asks the ultimate question: is it time to break up the tech giants? Do we have the power and the will? Will it solve the problems big tech has created, or do we have to look deeper, at finding alternate solutions and pushing them through ourselves.

In part 3 of our Disrupted World series, MSP takes a look at the social costs of digital disruption and asks if we are somehow becoming less human in the process. Of course, that takes us to CoffeGate, Game of Thrones and Gladiator, and Matt considers launching the world’s first Sesame Street fake movie review podcast. Episode Excerpt This week we’re staying with us, people, consumers, listeners -...

In the 2nd part of our Disrupted World series, MSP dismisses Avengers Endgame and looks to The CW’s The 100 for a solution to our privacy problems. It was supposed to be a celebration of Star Wars for May 4th but we couldn’t think of anything that hasn’t already been done. That’s how Disruptive we are. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9 Show Links: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/reuters-america-...

It’s the entrepreneurial equivalent of a middle finger. Disruption is more than a tech bro buzzword. It’s a destructive force that we’ll be paying the price of for generations to come. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9 Show Links: https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38901702-lab-rats https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...

Is it time to start feeding our meat addiction with a new approach? It ends up in a pan. Why not grow it in one? Advances in biotechnology, sustainable planet initiatives and changing consumer demand are putting us on the cusp of a cultured meat and plant-sourced burger revolution. This is the case for clean, green, meat. Show Links: • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/03/clean-me...

While parents worry about self-harming memes like Momo, are their own actions creating a generation of kids destined to self-destruct? Show Links: • https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132220-300-strange-rise-of-mukbang-parents-who-feed-their-kids-fast-food-for-cash/ • https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/29/apple-martin-tells-mother-gwyneth-paltrow-off-for-sharing-photo-without-consent...

The idea of wooden cars, homes, planes and skyscrapers used to be a Fred Flinstone fantasy. Now, with huge leaps in material technology, could wood be the miracle material of our future?

Are you selling the dream or running a long con? How to sort the Silicon Valley spin from the outright lies. We've got a ton of show links this week. Great reporting from all these sources. Support content makers!!! Show Links: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/26/8114391/inventions-dumb-fads http://fortune.com/silicon-valley-startups-fraud-venture-capital/ https://www.wired.com/story/theranos-and-s...

Is your technology working for you, or are you working for it? Why machines want us to prove that we are human. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9 Show Links: Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws. One of the reasons that this show exists is to demonstrate some of the many ways that te...

From the moment of conception to the time they die, the next generation of children may be tracked, monitored and surveilled every minute of every day. Produced by Jeff Sandhu Transcripts & more at www.kulturpop.com Episode Excerpt When I first saw that today’s show had Babies in the title, I assumed it had to be a joke. Matt Armitage is not known for being child friendly. In fact, I’m fairly...

The Dream is fame, riches, untold power. Why do thousands of people dedicate years of their lives to making it, despite the tiny odds?

What would it be like if you cut Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google & Microsoft out of your life completely? We knew it would be a living hell and never had the nerve to do it. Kashmir Hill, a writer at Gizmodo did. We chat about her experiences and their implications for the world we live in. Show Links: https://gizmodo.com/c/goodbye-big-five https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/17...

Utopia or Mattopia? We use today’s technology to create Matt’s perfect world of tomorrow. And introduce the term ‘bests of burden’. Excerpt: Then let’s start with money and finance as this is a business station. •I like your commitment to keeping this fun. Will money be digital? •Eventually, of course. But it won’t be the kind of digital currency we have now. •At the moment we have two major route...

Welcome to MSP the Musical. It’s hard to think of the world without Facebook. MSP looks at the central role Facebook has assumed in the digital economy and wonders: can it last another 15 years? Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws. We’re celebrating a birthday this week. No, not mine...

Surveillance Capitalism is turning us all into robots. Don’t fear the machines: they are us. Show Links: • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook • https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754 • https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshana-zuboff-secrets-of-surveillance-capitali...

Make 2019 the year you take responsibility; stop caring and own it.

Want to know what happens in 2019? Future Matt looks to the past to tell us about the year to come

We don’t have to let the giants of tech own the future. Those decisions are still ours to make.

2018 was a year of stark contrasts in the tech industry. Will 2019 be the year we fight back against the power of the giants?

We discuss lots of topics on MSP. But all anyone wants to talk about is the sex robots. The second part of look back at 2018.