Podcast Archives - cameronreilly.com

Rodney Brooks is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the […] The post G’DAY WORLD #272 – Prof Rodney Brooks, M...

Today I had the fortune to chat with another living legend – Vernor Vinge (pronounced “vin-jee” as in, he explained off air, “stingy”). While VV may not have the public profile of a William Gibson or Neal Stephenson, in geek circles no SF author carries more respect. Why is it so? In 1981 Vernor wrote […] The post G’DAY WORLD #271 – Vernor Vinge, SF...

Richard Giles joins me tonight to talk about a bunch of questions that have been on my mind: Are we all suffering from Affluenza? Are the Government, the advertising industry, and the mass media all conspiring to make us feel broke and scared? Does the car I drive define me as a human being? Do […] The post G’DAY WORLD #270 – Affluenza appeared first on cameronreilly.com .

A few months ago I had the opportunity to chat with Tony Smith, CEO of new online accommodation booking startup, Roamfree. I was asked to keep the interview on hold until the site launched, which was yesterday. Tony is a former Sydney Swans ruckman who started marketing Schoolies holidays when he was in his early […] The post G’DAY WORLD #269 – Tony Smith, Roamfree appeared first...

Today Paul Montgomery from Fan Footy joins me to talk about the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, IMF and UN Security Council. I’ve just finished reading George Monbiot’s 2003 book “The Age Of Consent” and it’s made me want to learn more about how these international bodies operate. Monty and I also chat about […] The post G’DAY WORLD #268 –...

John Butterworth is the CEO of AIMIA, the Australia Interactive Media Industry Association. I chatted with him recently about the state of the industry and tried to figure out who they seem to be so top-heavy, that is, involved more with big companies like Telstra and Sensis, rather than supporting the smaller, innovative companies. John […] The post G’Day World #267 – John Butte...

Chris Pirillo needs no introduction. Everyone knows him as an ubergeek, the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome, former host of TechTV’s “Call for Help”, and, along with his wife Ponzi, the host of Gnomedex, the technology conference made for geeks. I always think of him as the guy with the most infectious laugh I’ve ever […] The post G’Day World #266 –...

My guest today is Chris Summerfield. Chris works for Drug Arm WA, writes an intelligent blog called “A Churchless Faith” and recently took me up on my challenge to Christians to answer the question “What would it take for you to become an atheist?”. We talk a little about the striking similarities between the key […] The post G’DAY WORLD #265 – Chris Summe...

Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change. G’DAY […] The post G’Day World #264 – Dr P...

Today my guests are Andrew and Kevin – an American and a Brit living in Japan – to talk about some current conspiracy theories, including hundreds of “concentration camps” being built in the USA to house ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ and Rex 84, “a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to […] The post G’Day World #263...

Frank Arrigo, the guy who runs Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism team in Australia, a 16 year veteran of Microsoft, joins me tonight to publicly break his big news – he’s moving to Seattle to direct Microsoft’s DPE field strategy worldwide. The quality of the Skype call is terrible so we don’t talk long, but we […] The post G’Day World #262 –...

Wendell Wallach is a lecturer and consultant at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics where he chairs the working research group on Technology and Ethics, leads a seminar for bioethics interns, and functions as a senior coordinator for other working groups and projects. He has lectured worldwide, published many articles, and is presently writing two […] The post G&#8...

J. Storrs Hall is an independent scientist and author. His most recent book is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine, and he was the founding Chief Scientist of Nanorex, Inc, which is developing a CAD system for nanomechanical engineering, is currently a member of Nanorex’ Scientific Advisory Board, and is a Research Fellow […] The post G’Day World #260 – J. Sto...

Richard M. Giles of Scouta joins me again today to discuss a list of bothersome subjects, including (but not limited to, user’s experience my vary, please refer to terms and conditions before you set any expectations and refer all complaints to your local member… pffft, I said “member”): Scouta’s recent DMCA take-down notice What’s the […] The post G&#8217...

Professor Michael Georgeff is the Director of the e-Health research unit at Monash University. He has over 25 years experience in software innovation and bringing these technologies to market. In the 1980s, Georgeff was Program Director in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). He was also a member of Stanford […] The post G’DAY...

Tonight, my lil sister Anita and I went to see the first ever anywhere in the world public screening (well at least that’s what we were told) of the new TRANSFORMERS movie! Here is our review. Become part of the G’Day World conversation. If you’re a member of Facebook, you can ADD ME AS A […] The post G’DAY WORLD #257 – MY TRANSFORMERS REVIEW! appeared first on...

At Microsoft’s remix event in Melbourne yesterday I caught up with Brian Goldfarb, Group Product manager, UX Platform and Tools Strategy, Microsoft Corp. Brian’s group is responsible for Silverlight , their new product for developing rich content delivered through a browser, and Popfly, their Yahoo Pipes-like mashup creator. To check out the “Top Banana” demo […] The...

Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He chatted with me last week about the “Participatory panopticon“, Sousveillance, and why everyone should take “democratic transhumanism” very, very seriously. Read Jamais’ blog to find out more about his views on the preferred future. You can also catch Jamais at the Singularity […] Th...

I’m sure many of you read on Techmeme over the weekend about the whole “People Ready” fiasco involving FM Media and their client bloggers that started with this Valleywag post. One of the bloggers involved was Richard McManus who writes the popular ReadWriteWeb blog. I happened to be having dinner (ironically hosted by Microsoft, the […] The post G’DAY WORLD #254 &#82...

A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting […] The post G’DAY WORLD...

Steve Omohundro is a computer scientist and President of Self-Aware Systems in Palo Alto, California. Since April 2007 he is a research advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. We chatted this morning about his timeline and vision for the possible ways that artificial intelligence will emerge and how he believes self-aware machines will […] The post G’DAY WORLD...

My guest today, from a delightful little café in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, is Peter Styles, co-founder of RedBubble, an online art gallery and creative community that allows artists to display, sell and distribute their works. Peter and I talk about the site, their business model, ambitions, his background, running a start-up in Australia […] The post G’DAY WORLD #251 – P...

I’m very pleased to be able to chat with Adrian Giles from Hitwise on the show today. Back in 1997, Adrian and his partner started the company age 23 and they recently sold it to Experian for US$240 million. We talk about the beginnings of the company, the business model, the challenges with raising VC […] The post G’DAY WORLD #250 – Adrian Giles of Hitwise appeared first o...

Ryan Sholin wrote this post “10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head” on June 2 about the future of newspapers. It ended up on the front page of TechMeme and obviously struck a chord with lots of people. So I invited him onto the show to explore […] The post G’DAY WORLD #249 – The Future Of Newspapers appeared first on camero...

Reggie Finley Sr is “The Infidel Guy“. Since 1998 he has been hosting his own radio show/podcast about atheist thinking. We catch up to talk about podcasting business models, Atlanta, atheism, rational thinking, hip-hop, WMD, etc. If you want to add another great atheist podcast to your list, make sure you check out The Infidel […] The post G’DAY WORLD #248 – The Infi...