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Since he adopted Wikipedia as his main memory source, Matt forgets most of the things he learns within 24. What exactly can he remember from the ride in a washing machine that was 2018? Show Notes: We’re coming to the end of another year, and it’s a tradition with MSP that we find out what Matt has learned over the last 12 months. One of the reasons we ask this, is that the list of things he has l...

Today’s show is about technology you can feel good about. We know. We didn’t believe it, either.

Has the Silicon Valley Bubble burst? Is the Age of Technology at an end? Yes and not a chance, argues Matt.

We’re taking a break this week, so here’s a bonus episode. And who better to talk about than Taylor Swift?

Recorded the day before the Facebook and Soros smear story broke, this Explainer shows how easy it is to build a smear campaign. About donuts. Episode Excerpt: Frequent friend of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg apologist, also known as Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage, is back on his Fake News mission this week. We’re never entirely sure whether he wants to stop it or spread. So, we’d better give him the ch...

A combination of natural disasters and cyber-attacks has shown how fragile our way of life is. Are we heading for chaos? Or will the better side of human nature prevail? Links: https://www.wired.com/story/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-recovery/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/a-year-in-the-dark/ Episode Excerpt: Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and h...

With Amy Winehouse set to tour the world in 2019, are we stumbling towards a future of zombie stars? Artists frozen in time and doomed by AI and CGI to repeat their hits for infinity. Links: Roy Orbison, Hologram Tour https://youtu.be/1Lem-iefSm0 Episode Excerpt: These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the minor typos and grammar flaw...

The penalties for bullying and trolling should be obvious. But how should we be punished for pretending to be on holiday, or holding up everyone’s dinner for a food shot? Written on a tablet, these are Matt’s Social Commandments.

Who controls your mind? With mind-reading technology already showing incredible accuracy, is it time to ask who owns our thoughts? Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM Episode Excerpt: You’re already making us sound like machines… •We are machines. •But we’re thinking, feeling, sensing and self-determining machines. •We’re conscious. •You can press a button or issue a command that will wake Siri or Ale...

Technology companies, like people, don’t always make smart decisions. When they make truly disastrous ones, those are the mic drop moments. Today’s show takes a leap through the Portal. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM Episode Transcript: What’s on your mind? •Facebook. They’ve done something silly, again. •And this time, it’s a genuine mic drop moment. The Portal? •Back in 2012 Mark Zuckerberg tol...

Today Matt & Jeff go back to basics to look at CRISPR and the Blockchain and ask: What are they and how do they work? It’s time to Mattsplain. Episode Excerpt You’re looking very decomposed today. Why’s that? •I don't really spend much time in this temporal reality. Of course you don’t. You spend most of your time propping up a bar and practising your lies. Why don’t you tell us about bla...

Technology and a little bit of positive thinking could vastly improve your mental and physical state. How? It’s time to Mattsplain. Show Excerpt: On last week’s show we talked about technologies that are meeting evolution head-on and trying to tip the balance in our favour. This week we’re in similarly choppy waters as we enter the world of the mind. In particular, the mind of Kulturpop’s Matt Arm...

Science is building an impressive toolkit that is enabling us to fight back against Evolution’s darker urges. How? It’s time to Mattsplain. Episode Excerpt: You made up a word for today’s show… •Yes. We’re all about the clickbait on this show. •Hold tight for 7 reasons why evolution will kill you. Really? •No, of course not. •But we are talking about evolution. We're going to talk about the w...

In a world where money really does grow from trees, are we ready to throw it away and embrace a completely cashless society? Who controls the money if we do? It’s time to Mattsplain.

Wipe your feet and mind your head as we enter a universe where mindless code decides whether we live or die. A dystopia on your doorstep? It’s time to Mattsplain. Show Links: https://medium.com/iotforall/the-difference-between-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-deep-learning-3aa67bff5991 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/29/coding-algorithms-frankenalgos-program-danger Exce...

It’s Silly Season. The time of the year when the news goes on holiday. Which means it’s time to catch up on some of the really cool tech and science stories we missed like fiery webcams and livestreamed fatbergs. Matt's Notes: This is the quiet time of the year for news and developments. It’s been such a crazy year that we’ve had a lot to catch up on. This week, I’m going back to some of the...

Are we heading for a one world order of powerful corporations? Will commercial brands dictate the popular culture of the future? It might not be what you expect. It’s time to Mattsplain. Episode Excerpt: As the world becomes increasingly wired, we often hear that culture is becoming more uniform and homogenised. Are we really heading for a one world order? Someone who’s not sure, but is pretty cer...

Biotech conjures images of cloning, lab meat and mind control. But biotechnology has been fuelling humankind’s progress for thousands of years. Today we look past the fear and celebrate the promise. It’s time to Mattsplain. It’s time to Mattsplain.⠀ Excerpt: Biotech is one of those words that’s often thrown around – like blockchain – but that mean very little to most people. •That analogy with blo...

Today we’re going to speed through a bunch of the questions that Matt gets asked most often. What do the Facebook and Twitter share price falls mean? Should I invest in crypto currency? Where’s my ray gun? It’s time to Mattsplain. Excerpt from Transcript: Because he’s got a one track mind – a recent show on GPS being a good example – we usually tackle one topic at a time on Mattsplained. That gene...

Bad ideas. Technology creates at least as many of them as it does good ideas. What happens when the bad ideas slip through and the good ones drift away? It’s time to Mattsplain. Excerpt from this episode: Problems. The things that science and technology are supposed to solve. That the solutions are themselves problems is not an original thought – which is good, because Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is...

It’s easy to jump on the new tech is better tech bandwagon. But what happens when that new tech is a little bit older and doesn’t perform as well as the technology it replaced? It’s time to Mattsplain. Excerpt from this episode: If there’s one thing that we can be sure of on this show, it’s that the future is always better. Every week, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage pops by to tell us that while the su...

Science. It’s tricky stuff. Just as you think you’ve come to grips with nature’s mysteries, a quantum physicist fires you into another dimension. Should we stop worrying and let Schrödinger’s cat out of the bag? It’s time to Mattsplain.

Is Star Wars undermining the Internet? Has hate speech undermined the mainstream? Could a licence to surf could bring us back from the Dark Side? It’s time to Mattsplain. Excerpt: Masculine inferiority. It’s something that Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has been accused of all his life. But until last week, he thought it was just him. Now, the massed ranks of Star Wars Ultras have broken cover to try a...

Does society have the tech visionaries it deserves, or are we looking in all the wrong places? It’s time to Mattsplain.

Is technology already beyond our control? Is Skynet waiting for its opportunity to strike? Is humanity facing techno obsolescence? Only the machines know. It’s time to Mattsplain.