Spark
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The Modern-day Homestead
Ben Falk on modern-day homesteading – planning self-sustaining plots of land to both live and work on.
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221: The Future of Work. Workplace Science. Rethinking...
Vivienne Ming on rethinking recruiting. Christopher Kennedy on going beyond the traditional resume. Martin Ford on the automated workforce and our future. Jaron Lanier on building an information economy. Ben Falk on holistic live/work design.
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The Automated Workforce
Nora Young interviews Martin Ford, author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future.
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220: Aphorism, Fragment and Tweet. Internet Linguistics....
Simon Reader on aphorism and tweeting. David Crystal on internet linguistics. Jesse Wente and Mohan Matthen on visual effects. Denis Grignon on Tom Green. Lavrans Lovlie on service design.
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Black Code
Nora Young interviews Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and author of Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace.
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219: Data Harvesting and Social Games, The Battle for...
Florence Chee on data harvesting and social games. Ron Deibert on Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace. Joel Spolsky on Eating Together. Francois Chartier on Molecules and Wine. Kenji Lopez-Alt on Cooking and Science.
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Internet Linguistics
Academic, linguist, broadcaster, author (over 120 books!), David Crystal also developed the field of internet linguistics to understand how people use language online. Nora Young speaks to him about why texting and tweeting have been good for language.
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