Living in the Future

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From Star Trek to Minority Report, movies have captured our imaginations about what the future of tech – and our world – will look like. This series explores the cool, wacky and far-out tech that the entertainment industry has dreamed up and how some it has gone from the big screen to everyday life.

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    • Apr 16, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    IoT Trends to Watch in the New AI Era

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 26:30


    This episode explores the latest IoT trends, including how generative AI is making our connected devices even smarter. Anshel Sag of Moor Insights & Strategy and Sameer Sharma of MediaTek discuss this new era of IoT innovation from industrial applications to smart fitness, smart cities, and beyond. 

    The Technologies Making AI Even Smarter

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 26:44


    Generative and agentic AI applications will make our devices smarter and more personalized. Anshel Sag of Moor Insights & Strategy chats with Finbarr Moynihan and Mark Odani of MediaTek about the potential of AI and the latest MediaTek computing advancements making it all possible. 

    How Virtual Reality is Changing the Gaming Industry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 40:02


    From headsets to room-scale experiences, VR is reshaping the gaming industry. In this episode, Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat talks about how far VR technology has come and where it's headed next.

    Fitness, But Smarter

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 46:23


    From smart fitness equipment to wearables, companies are gamifying exercise to make it more fun and are giving us tools to track our health and fitness journeys. In this episode, Victoria Song of The Verge shares what's worth paying attention to and what the future of fitness tech holds.

    The Evolution of TVs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 46:05


    TVs were once bulky pieces of furniture, but over the last few decades they have transformed into super-thin devices that can stream a wide variety of content and connect with our smartphones. In this episode, Phil Nickinson of Digital Trends weighs the merits of smart TVs compared to the “dumb displays” of the past.

    Generative AI And The New Era of Communicating with Machines

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 37:45


    Memorable characters like J.A.R.V.I.S. from Iron Man and Samantha from Her offered a glimpse into a future where we can seamlessly communicate with machines, and where AI assistants truly understand us and can predict what we want. In this episode, Ben Bajarin at Creative Strategies explores how generative AI is reshaping the way we talk to computers and how we'll see this evolve as more processing moves to the edge.

    The Next Era of Satellite Phones, with Mike Dano

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2023 34:58


    Imagine being able to stay connected wherever you go, untethered to the limits of cellular connectivity and Wi-Fi.  With satellite connectivity, this isn't just a pipe dream. Pretty soon satellite-enabled phones will become mainstream and worrying about signal bars will be a thing of the past. Tune in with Light Reading's Mike Dano to hear about how satellites thousands of miles away are opening up new possibilities for the mobile market. 

    How the Sci-Fi "Computer" Became the Virtual Assistant

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2023 52:20


    "Computer!" the Captain barks into the console of her starship – and, incredibly, the computer responds! Well ... it was incredible to audiences of the 1990s anyway, when the closest thing to "voice activation" was The Clapper. How did we go from applauding our lights on, to having conversations with Alexa and Google in less than twenty years? Tune in with Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge to find out! 

    The Wild West of AI, with Dan Mbanga

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2023 58:14


    Transformers aren't just action figures. Chatbots, ChatGPT, and other AI-powered applications using transformers are changing the way we get information and communicate. It seems like these applications have a brain of their own, but is that the case? Google's Dan Mbanga breaks down what you need to know about how machine learning works. 

    Wi-Fi, 5G, and the "Always On" Internet Connection

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 47:07


    Scanners; communicators; computers – as exciting as the technology of the future can be, absolutely none of it matters without a constant connection to ... somewhere else. And the same goes for the technology of the present: every time you ask Alexa to play a song, or send your exercise stats to your Fitness Friends group chat, or navigate to a new part of town, you're relying on a connection that we used to call "going online" back when far fewer people were "on the internet." Here's how today's technology keeps most of the planet constantly connected.

    How Cars Learned To (Mostly) Drive Themselves, with Edward Niedermeyer

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 68:56


    From Total Recall's Johnny Cab to Minority Report's Lexuses of 2054, the self-driving car has co-starred opposite countless future-dwellers, a perennial signifier that "hey, this movie is set in the F U T U R E!" But about five years ago, the whole idea of a car that could drive you (instead of the other way around) started to get a lot closer to science fact than fiction. Michael Fisher (aka Captain2Phones) chats with author and podcaster Edward Niedermeyer about how far we've come with self-driving cars and what challenges lie ahead.

    Living in the Future: Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2023 1:47


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    How the Sci-Fi "Communicator" Became the Cellphone, with Dr. Marty Cooper

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2023 39:38


    The Star Trek communicator; the Dick Tracy radio watch; the Teenage Mutant Ninja 'Turtle-Com.' For decades, science fiction and fantasy forecasted futuristic two-way radios that seemed fantastical at the time – but today, 7 billion people carry them in their everyday lives. Dr. Marty Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, joins Michael Fisher (aka Captain2Phones) to explain how the modern cellular phone went from pie-in-the-sky pipe dream to ubiquitous commodity.

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