Podcast appearances and mentions of Nora Young

Meta and Google have been hit with landmark antitrust trials recently, centred on allegations of operating illegal monopolies. The CBC's Nora Young breaks down what this might mean for the power of major tech companies, and the people who use their platforms every day. 

A federal election task force says it has found an online operation linked to the Chinese government that targeted Liberal Leader Mark Carney as concerns grow over the use of AI in misinforming the voter base. CBC technology journalist Nora Young explains generative AI and how it can factor in the election

Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams has made explosive allegations against the company in her new memoir Careless People — but she's been legally barred from promoting the book. The CBC's Nora Young digs into Wynn-Williams' allegations, and Meta's reaction.

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency meme coin, $TRUMP, in January, and this week he's hosting the White House's first-ever cryptocurrency summit. The CBC's Nora Young explains why the president's interest in crypto — including plans to create a national reserve of the digital currency — is setting off alarms.

The CBC's Nora Young has been looking at how medical misinformation spreads online, and how influencers have brought fringe ideas into the mainstream. She shares what she found.

Rumble may be a lesser-known social media site, but it's been gaining momentum as a platform for content creators banned by bigger sites. Nora Young, from the CBC's Visual Investigations Unit, digs into the Canadian-founded video platform's soaring popularity.

Hurricane season has collided with an election campaign in the U.S., and politicians like Donald Trump are using the moment to spread disinformation about relief efforts. The CBC's Nora Young helps us disentangle the facts from the deepfakes.

Former Spark host Nora Young is part of CBC's new Visual Investigations unit, a team that aims to publish stories examining disinformation, like AI deepfakes. With fabricated content becoming more sophisticated, she talks to Matt Galloway about the methods available to debunk them — including open source intelligence.

Crocheting your own beanie, learning how to beatbox... or how to write a book. It's all happening in the tiny community of Small Point-Adam's Cove-Broad Cove-Blackhead this weekend... during an interactive festival called Queering the Arts. We speak with one of the presenters who have come here for the event. (Krissy Holmes with Nora Young)

You likely know Dan Misener for his work in Podcasting - but I managed to trace his roots back to radio. Specifically, to CBC and shows like DNTO (Definitely Not the Opera) and Spark with Nora Young. His radio days actually stretch back a little further than that to campus radio at Dalhousie's CKDU in Halifax. But it was his time at Pacific Content where Dan began to explore audience development in the podcast space. Yes, he could have continued on making great sounding shows at places like the CBC, but what's the point if you aren't getting everyone to listen, right?In this episode we will discuss those early radio days and the natural transition to podcasting, the experimenting at the CBC with Spark, and the creation of a feedback loop for the show. We also spoke about the importance of the packaging of your podcast and how it appears in podcast catalogues and on a dashboard display in a vehicle. We also talked about some of the cool blogs that Dan has written, the very helpful Podcast XRay that was released earlier this year which helps you find out things about show's like release days, enclosure tags and the brand new analytics Dashboard from Bumper presents another look at podcast metrics focusing in consumption and verified listens to a show. Yes downloads are cool but have you ever appreciated the Time Spent Listening (TSL) to your show?Dan has given us a look into new Bumper Dashboard for their clients and we make a few observations about the Sound Off Podcast. Some we knew; some we did not.We also touched on some other lingering podcast questions like, does it matter what day of the week you release an episode, and what's the role in video for your show. The answer to both is... YES!I did not ask Dan about his feelings about Rogers (mis)handling the attempted shuttling of Pacific Content, nor the ensuing sale to Lower Street... there were podcast marketing strategies to pursue after all.A Transcript and video version of the episode is available on the network page. Thanks to the following organizations for supporting the show:Nlogic - TV & Radio Audience Data SolutionsMary Anne Ivison at Ivison Voice. - Make her the female voice of your radio station.Matt Fogarty Voiceovers - It's great to have Matt back for 2024 supporting our show. Make him the imaging voice for your radio station by contacting him through his website.Megatrax - Licensed Music for your radio station or podcast production company.Also we added the Sound Off Podcast to the The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) A free and open-source podcast prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy. You can be a nosey parker by checking out our downloads here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nora Young knew technology was inherently political when she created Spark in 2007, mere months after the iPhone was unveiled. As the CBC Radio show ends its 17-year run, she says we should be demanding more from the technologies that shape our lives.

Nora Young and Michelle Parise chat about 17 years of making Spark and listen to some messages from very special guests.

AI, social media, and virtual work pretty much dominate the cultural conversation around technology and our lives. Is it 2007 or 2024? Join host Nora Young as she revisits and reflects on the first time we covered those topics starting 17 years ago!

Public libraries, hospitals and even the state of Maine have fallen victim to ransomware attacks recently, freezing operations and compromising the personal data of millions. Guest host Nora Young asks cybersecurity expert Ali Dehghantanha what can be done to block these breaches.

Hello! This time on the podcast, Nora Young talks about Spotify's project to offer AI-based voice simulation for podcast translation. So, you can listen to your pod-of-choice in a different language, but in a simulated version of the podcaster's own voice. First languages to be available are Spanish, French, and German.Cathi Bond brings you 'giraffenap', a body-sized box that lets people take a 20 minute nap while standing, sorta. Your feet, shins, buttocks, arms, and head are supported. The goal is for a quick nap, sleeping lightly, rather than a full-on snooze fest. It comes in 2 different models, and you can check out the deets here.  

Hi folks!Things get a little wild as Cathi Bond looks at Cortical Labs, which is researching how to design computational systems from a mixture of stem cells and a silicon substrate (via New Atlas). We take a speculative look at a potential future of biological computing.Meanwhile, Nora Young looks at this Wired article on research into watermarking AI-generated images, and just how difficult that is turning out to be. How will we deal with the proliferation of deepfakes and similar forms of disinformation?

If you've got a concern about errors and inaccuracies in AI output, how do you address it? To my knowledge, there is not yet a solution for AI hallucinations. I recently wrote a newsletter on LinkedIn and Substack about my concerns about inaccuracies and pure fantasy I discovered using Bing powered by ChatGPT-4.  This is a verbal analysis of my thought process of why I wanted to pursue this question. I'm including the text of the newsletter for reference. The Seeds of Curiosity One of my first podcast episodes was about AI use in HR - recruiting and retention, upskilling etc. Although Todd Raphael changed jobs, he allowed me to retain the episode (thank you, Todd). It was really useful because it made me curious to learn more. I started investigating Canadian companies doing the same sort of work and I discovered Plum.IO. I created a profile and though it wasn't bad, there were several things I thought were inaccurate. You can read my Plum profile here. To be clear, I like a lot of it. My top talents are embracing diversity, innovation and decision making. It describes me as Influential, dominant, persuasive, authoritative, and self-confident. I'm also curious, analytical, reflective, imaginative, and creative as well as receptive, adaptive, flexible, unconventional, and reflective. I agree with these statements: Nola is: Good at knowing what to say to make people feel included and accepted. Exceptional at adapting to a wide range of people and being open to different values and personalities.   Nola is: Extraordinary at working with abstract ideas and developing unconventional solutions. Exceptional at being receptive to different ideas and flexible to changing demands.   Nola is: Extraordinary at critically evaluating information, generating solutions, and using facts and logic to support decisions. Excellent at expressing opinions and taking control of a situation.   I have an issue with several of these statements: Professionally, Nola is: A good fit for roles with clear and attainable goals. A good fit for roles that are unlikely to have many unexpected problems or changes in how the work gets done. A very good fit for work that is not stressful or rushed. A very good fit for roles that measure success on the volume of work completed. The hybrid/remote and the future of work is not clear, it's likely to have many unexpected problems and changes, it can be stressful and how do you measure the volume of work completed? This is not describing me or the work I do at all. To me, this was picking up my long history in customer service and attributing the ideal work to my history. I was curious how the AI was determining this output and so I asked the CEO to be on my podcast. I had questions. How does the AI pull information and create the output? How do you fix output you feel is inaccurate? What recourse is there? How would employers view this and how would a candidate counter misinformation provided by AI in an interview situation? What protections do you have in place to guard against bias? If I could see this many problematic issues just on my profile, how would this look for others? What happens if you don't have 2 decades of experience? What if you are an immigrant? The Plum CEO initially responded but has since ghosted me. We were actually on the same stage at Elevate Festival last September - I did send her a message asking to meet. She walked right by me - she presented with a VP of Scotiabank right before my speaking gig. Scotiabank doesn't use resumes anymore - they use Plum. This is not a future of work issue. This is a now issue. It's real, it's happening already. Although I'm happy to chat with the CEO if she approaches me, I'm not going to pursue it further. This is the story I have. The questions remain. AI is a content track for Elevate Festival this year again, as is the future of work. Hopefully Jared Lindzon or Douglas Soltys has an opportunity to pose some of these questions to the AI experts in attendance. Who Can It Be Now? AI has a tendency to hallucinate. I recently discovered you can enable ChatGPT-4 when you use Bing. I like Bing because it uses the internet. A few weeks ago, I interviewed Cher Jones about personal branding. Just before our call started, I searched her on ChatGPT-3. It was a decent summary. I looked for myself and it told me it knew nothing about me but the data was only accurate until September 2021. As far as it was concerned, I was a private person. Which made me wonder where it gets it's information. I've been on most social media platforms since 2011. It's clearly not valuing social media as a source. From the research I've done over the last few weeks, it seems to value books, websites and public media. How do you build a personal brand when you can't see inside the box? Who Are You? Who, Who? AI has a tendency to hallucinate. I recently discovered you can enable ChatGPT4 when you use Bing. I like Bing because it uses the internet. Yesterday I asked: tell me about Nola Simon's media appearances. Can you spot the things that aren't true or completely accurate? Two people I know fairly well played along. One told me that she felt the list was pretty impressive and credible and the other person was able to spot most of the inaccuracies. Another person on Threads told me that she would have no way of knowing what was true and what wasn't. No surprises the people on LinkedIn know more about me than the people on Threads. I've quoted what Bing wrote below. Can you spot the things that aren't true or completely accurate? Probably you can't without doing deep research. Due diligence would demand you verify each statement. How time consuming. I'll break it down for you. Sweet, Sweet Fantasy, Baby Nola Simon has been featured in various media outlets, such as:- Newspapers: She has written articles for The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, and The Financial Post on topics such as hybrid work, employee wellness, and leadership¹².- Television: She has appeared on CTV News, CBC News, Global News, and BNN Bloomberg as an expert on hybrid and remote work, and the future of work¹².- Ra. Itdio: She has been interviewed on CBC Radio, AM640, and SiriusXM Canada Talks on how to navigate the changing world of work, and how to have difficult conversations with employers and employees¹².- Magazines: She has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Entrepreneur as a hybrid/remote work futurist and a thought leader on the future of work¹³.- Podcasts: She is the host of The Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence podcast, where she interviews experts and thought leaders on the future of work¹³. She has also been a guest on several podcasts, such as The Change Zone, Work Life Bloom, and The Janus Oasis². Let's take it section by section. All of the real interviews can be found on my media page on my website. Newspapers - Newspapers: She has written articles for The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, and The Financial Post on topics such as hybrid work, employee wellness, and leadership. I didn't write any of the articles mentioned. I was interviewed by talented journalists like Rosa Saba Clarrie Feinstein and Déjà Leonard. It misses an article by CBC Geoff Nixon. It doesn't mention The Toronto Star at all. I've never been interviewed by The National Post or The Financial Post although I realize some articles are distributed. The recent article Rosa Saba wrote for The Canadian Press was published by 37 different outlets and audio clips also ran across Canadian radio. These inaccuracies in the AI output only highlight why we need human journalists who do deep research and investigation. We also need the editors and producers who do the background work, planning and strategy. I have learned a lot about media since last year and I have nothing but respect for the work. We need brave, human journalists who invest the time and effort to tell real stories. - Television: She has appeared on CTV News, CBC News, Global News, and BNN Bloomberg as an expert on hybrid and remote work, and the future of work¹² Television I have appeared on CTV News - TV was actually my first media interview thanks to Beth Macdonell. I have not appeared on television for CBC News, Global News or BNN Bloomberg. If they care to have me, I'd love the opportunity but this is fake news, AI-style. Radio - Radio: She has been interviewed on CBC Radio, AM640, and SiriusXM Canada Talks on how to navigate the changing world of work, and how to have difficult conversations with employers and employees. So radio is the most complex media. I had no idea until I started doing interviews for CBC Radio. It's hard to know when the shows will air - the only time I knew for sure was the day I did a series of live interviews across Canada. CBC Spark with Nora Young goes live on Sundays at 1 pm but also publishes as a podcast. They do have a channel on SiriusXM but I have not been interviewed for a show called SiriusXM Canada Talks and I've not been on AM640 to my knowledge. As I mentioned, Canadian Press distributed audio clips from my recent interview but it's almost impossible to know which stations broadcast those. Magazines - Magazines: She has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Entrepreneur as a hybrid/remote work futurist and a thought leader on the future of work. Pure fiction. The closest I came to being published in a magazine is the interview with Wendy Helfenbaum for a digital publication called Reworked but is that considered a magazine or a newspaper? Not sure. I would call it digital media but there is no category for that and Bing didn't pick this up at all. It also didn't pick up any of the quotes I gave Terkel (now Featured). Podcasts Although I have a Spotify playlist with all my guest podcast interviews, Bing didn't use that as a resource at all. - Podcasts: She is the host of The Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence podcast, where she interviews experts and thought leaders on the future of work¹³. She has also been a guest on several podcasts, such as The Change Zone, Work Life Bloom, and The Janus Oasis. My own podcast started out under the name The Janus Oasis but I rebranded to Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence. I've done several episodes for The Change Zone with Gail McDonald - PCC and Susan Sneath so I'm happy to see that show listed but the most interesting fallacy is the Work Life Bloom show. It doesn't exist. Dan Pontefract is publishing a new book called Work Life Bloom which comes out in October in Canada and November for the rest of the world. He has been a guest on my podcast but I have not been a guest on his podcast. His podcast is called Leadership Now. This is the most creative AI hallucination. And the most worrisome. It takes a kernel of truth but builds out a fantasy. It seems plausible. Maybe you've seen some of Dan's advertising for the book. It's credible he might have a podcast of the same name. Dan is also a main stage speaker at Elevate Festival this Wednesday. Perhaps you can ask people how this output would have been created, Dan? Call To Action We need more information about how AI is pulling information. The hallucinations have the potential to impact personal branding and reputation. We need to ask questions and we need to understand how we fix the hallucinations. If we can't fix them, we need to know how to clarify the facts. We need to know how to negotiate disinformation. How can we possibly use this for HR when there is no answer on what is causing the hallucinations or how to fix them? In short, we need to know who and what to trust. Published by Nola Simon Rethinking hybrid/remote through a trust lens|LinkedIn Top Community Voice Decision Making, Organizational Development|Organizations hire me to make hybrid/remote work just work|Transforming strategy♟️into magic

The shortest family medicine residency program in Canada is two years, but there's now a plan to increase those to a minimum of three years. However, some practitioners are concerned the extra year will steer new doctors away from family medicine. Guest host Nora Young discusses the impact with Dr. Mike Green, head of family medicine at Queens University and the incoming president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and Dr. Sarah Lespérance, a family doctor and the president of Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.

Canada has lost more trees to wildfires this year than in any other year on record. It's led some tree planters to question if their methods of the past have contributed to the fires of today. Guest host Nora Young speaks with two tree planters, and John Innes, the forest renewal B.C. chair in forest management.

Hey there!This time, Cathi Bond talks about this Gizmodo article on the issue of shadow banning on dating apps. Nora Young refers to this Guardian article on a virtual assistant/life coach that Google's DeepMind is working on. She also references this Atlantic article.

Nora Young, the founder of Candy Colored Girl (a vintage fashion store in Bed Stuy), speaks to us about her journey from acting to costume design and how it lead to the birth of her shop. From trusting your gut, to the power of friends when starting a business, Nora has plenty of nuggets of wisdom to share. Learn why being introverted doesn't have to be a barrier when starting a business and how to manifest your dream shop! About Candy Colored Girl: Candy Colored Girl is a clothing store with an emphasis on sustainable fashion for women and children. It is a place for people who want to express their individuality through clothing and jewelry, the kinds of things that empower them to feel good about themselves. We carry items from local artists and the shop is sprinkled with small oddities, crystals, and lots of love! Join BeOne Community for more exclusive content --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beone/message

This time, Nora Young refers to this article on brain implants and emerging questions for neuroethics, and our increasingly intimate relationship with tech.Cathi Bond has a summertime take on personal watercraft. How about the GoBoat? 

Welcome back!This time, Cathi Bond talks about the Norman Foster Foundation's participation in the Venice Biennale of architecture. It's a sustainable, durable, and beautiful prototype for emergency shelter in the wake of natural or human-caused disasters. You can see it and read more here. Nora Young mentions the Canadian delegation's Venice project.Nora's come across two recent articles on the importance of embodiment in therapy. The New York Times piece on somatic therapy is here. The interview in Atmos on embodiment is here. Cathi describes Dialectical Behavioural Therapy.

Happy spring, folks! This time, Cathi Bond talks about Beacon, a room disinfectant that uses far-UVC, and comes in a variety of sizes for different spaces (via Fast Company).Nora Young talks about this article by New York Times tech writer, Brian X. Chen. With so much influencer, branded, and sponsored content on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, is it time to think of niche social media that's more truly social? Cathi is still an avid Facebook user, and shares thoughts on its value as a political tool.

Hi friends,This time, as cameras in public places become all the more pervasive, Cathi Bond looks at a company called Capable. Their Manifesto Collection of clothing is designed to elude iris scans. Dystopian sci fi future discussion ensues!Nora Young talks about this Pew study on the online dating habits of Americans. Read more on the results here.

Hello! This time, Nora Young talks about this article in Time about the potential use of generative AI such as ChatGPT in design for virtual environments in the metaverse.Cathi Bond discusses this intriguing research into a smart walking stick for blind and visually impaired users. The goal is to use cameras and image recognition to improve navigation. For more on related technology, here's Nora's Spark interview with Chancey Fleet. 

Hello! Welcome to a new year and a new Sniffer ep!This time, Amazon's Astro home robot was at CES this month, though it's still invitation-only. That got Cathi Bond thinking about both the approachable design, and possible future implications of bots in the home. Watch Amazon's promotional video here. Read a detailed review here.Nora Young came across this article about one author's encounter with AI-generated, rip-off "summaries" of his memoir. With more and more machine learning-generated music, images, and text, it has her thinking about a possible future of automated culture, where human-created work sits alongside a slush pile of automated knock-offs. She mentions this excellent article about the IP implications. You might also be interested in Nick Cave's response to a Cave-esque Chat GPT-generated lyric.All good wishes for 2023! 

Hello! Thanks for checking out the episode! This time, Cathi Bond looks at this story out of the University of Waterloo on how simple, inexpensive drones and hardware can remotely pinpoint smart devices. Nora Young talks about this excellent article exploring how e-commerce giant Shein has ridden to success, and some of the sustainability problems it poses. She recommends checking out Rest of World.

Nora Young's lecture from our November 5, 2022 "Babel 2.0" conference day, offered to us virtually from Toronto. For more information on the conference and to access other resources from the day, please head to our conference web page.Other lectures from the day will be released over the coming weeks, so do stay tuned!Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help others join the conversation.* * *This podcast is created at saint benedict's table, a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg, where we've been making great audio since 2006. Listen to other recent episodes on our website and see our entire catalogue of over 600 shows on our hosting page.Our MissionTo provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in which we live.

Thanks for checking out the latest episode! This time, Nora Young talks about a range of technologies (discussed in this excellent article) that aim to create a virtual presence of people after they die, some based on interviews with people while they're still alive, some based on taking their writing to construct a 'presence'.  Cathi Bond has long raved about the 'tiny house' movement; however having spent part of her summer holiday in a (surprisingly) tiny house, now she's not so sure. She looks at this very cool example of a 20 foot long home.

This time around, Cathi Bond talks about this proposal for Downtown Circle: a super ambitious residence/shopping/cultural/public hub high above Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Future of urban life with interior green space, or future of gated communities?Nora Young talks about this great Rob Walker article about Minoan and the idea of IRL product placement. 

In this podcast Jamie Howison takes a look at some of the events and happenings that are beginning to unfold over the autumn at saint ben's. These links will give you a closer look at some of the things on offer:"A Room with a View" photo exhibit - Saturday September 17"A Book of Revelations: assorted poems" book release - Wednesday October 5"Babel 2.0" conference on faith and media - Saturday November 5Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help others join the conversation.* * *This podcast is created at saint benedict's table, a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg, where we've been making great audio since 2006. Listen to other recent episodes on our website and see our entire catalogue of over 600 shows on our hosting page.Our MissionTo provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in which we live.

After being on the verge of eradication globally, with the last case in Canada nearly 30 years ago, polio is once again making headlines. Cases are emerging in the U.S., Israel and the U.K., and that has health officials on alert. Guest host Nora Young speaks with Safia Ibrahim, a polio survivor and global vaccine advocate. We also hear from Dr. Olakunle Alonge, an associate professor of International Health at Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease physician at Sinai Health System in Toronto.

Migrant farm workers who come to Canada have long described facing terrible conditions, and even abuse from employers, with little recourse. Guest host Nora Young discusses what needs to change with Syed Hussan, the executive director of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change; and Eliza MacLauchlin, program coordinator at The Cooper Institute, a non-governmental organization in PEI focused on education and community development

Today marks six months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and also Independence Day in Ukraine — though celebrations have been banned over fears of a Russian attack. To hear how the day is being marked and how the war is progressing, guest host Nora Young talks to Ukrainian MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, and David Marples, distinguished professor of Russian and East European History at the University of Alberta.

Could Canada's liquefied natural gas (LNG) be a cleaner option in weaning the world away from coal or would increasing LNG production just increase our reliance on fossil fuels? Guest host Nora Young talks to Edward Greenspon, CEO of an independent think tank called the Public Policy Forum; and Nichole Dusyk, a senior policy advisor for the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Newfoundland and Labrador is moving ahead with pay equity law, five years after politicians there voted for it — but how does the rest of Canada stack up? Guest host Nora Young talks to Bridget Clarke, the advocacy coordinator for the St. John's Status of Women Council in Newfoundland and Labrador; and Katherine Scott, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives.

Hello podcast friends! This is the last Sniffer episode of the season! This time, Cathi Bond found this fascinating interview with  Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games (the Fortnite folks). Cathi and Nora speculate about what it would really take to launch a re-imagined version of wild and wooly early internet culture. Nora Young talks about The Verge's look at Rouge Sur Mesure, Yves Saint Laurent's take on customizable lipstick shades you 'print out' in your own home. Why not do this for more products, especially for perishable items?We recorded this episode a little while ago, so we added an 'end-of-season' tag at the end.Have a great summer, and as always, thanks for listening. Your pals, Nora and Cathi

Hi again podcast fans! This time, Nora Young looks at this story detailing Meta's experiments with a retail outlet. What's their end game? Cathi Bond looks at Create Structure, a plan for emergency housing in natural disasters that aims to be cheap to make and ship, but more durable than tents.

Hiya! This time, Cathi Bond talks about this stunner of a virtual house for all your metaverse needs.  Nora Young talks about this thought-provoking article in The Atlantic about our nature deprivation.

This time on the podcast, Cathi Bond and Nora Young talk about interesting responses to two pandemic developments. Nora talks about this plan to attract so-called 'digital nomads' to work in small villages in Spain. After a year and half of remote work, will (former) office workers opt to work wherever they want? What's the role for the face-to-face in the future? Cathi talks about this intriguing design for transitional housing as an alternative, temporary option for people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Toronto, like many cities, has an increase in tent encampments in the wake of the pandemic. Could this type of thing be a bridge to permanent housing?

Hi there! On this episode, a couple of thoughts on the importance of access to nature. Cathi Bond talks about "farmscrapers": giant skyscrapers that incorporate organic-looking podlike structures and lots of trees and greenery to help with pollution. Check out the photos here. Nora Young talks about this thought-provoking article on virtual exploration through walking simulations in game environments. The author did it as a solution during the pandemic, but are there limits to simulations of the natural world?    

Hey there, Cathi Bond and Nora Young meet again virtually with a look at some intriguing retail trends.  Cathi got a Uline catalogue delivered in the mail. It's basically a company that will ship you...shipping materials. It's got her wondering if more regular individuals will be developing their own retail side gigs, and whether she should open "Cathi's Shed". Nora talks about Levi's Buy Better Wear Longer campaign, which encourages people to skip the fast fashion and wear jeans for longer. It follows on their move to encourage people to customize and resell their denim (via Fast Company).

Hello! Hope you are safe and healthy. Cathi Bond and Nora Young connect over video chat for another ep. Nora talks about this great Guardian article by Rhik Samadder on how we've lost the art of small talk in our socially isolated pods, and why the pandemic-imposed isolation has just sped up our tech-driven communication problems. Cathi talks about this article on the therapeutic uses for psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, in treating depression.  Thanks for listening, and be well!  

This time on the podcast, Nora Young talks about Adam Grant's new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You don't Know. Great article and summary here. Cathi Bond looks at a pilot project to use pre-existing natural gas pipelines to transport hydrogen for use in vehicles (via New Atlas). 

We are back! Cathi Bond and Nora Young got together (virtually!) to talk future of retail and carbon footprint. Cathi talks about Showfields, a digital/physical hybrid store in New York, and their new Magic Wand app (via PSFK).  Nora talks about this article from two Université de Montréal professor/researchers on the 'hidden infrastructure' required for machine learning: the carbon footprint of training machine learning applications on lots of data.  Hope you're all well and coping ok! 

This time, Cathi Bond and Nora Young "get together" virtually from their respective homes for a pandemic-appropriate recording. Nora talks about Zoox, the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company (check out the details and images at Fast Company). The shuttle design reminded Nora that Toyota is aiming at a similar shuttle application, and that autonomous vehicles supported by LIDAR technology was a buzzy topic at this year's CES.  Cathi Bond has been thinking about Netflix, which has commissioned a ton of original content for 2021. She wonders if it could signal a return to the old Hollywood studio system for a new era.

Before the December deep chill set in Cathi Bond and Nora Young got together in Nora's backyard to talk tech. Cathi Bond talks about Oceanbird, a huge, wind-powered shipping vessel that relies on very innovative technology. It's being designed by Wallenius Marine out of Sweden. Check out the images at Dezeen. Meanwhile, Nora Young talks about this Guardian article about a pilot project in the Netherlands to cut the power to speeding ebikes. Sensible safety measure or nanny state run amok? 

Hey there! This time, Nora Young talks about the news that Amazon-owned Ring home security company is releasing the Ring Always Home camera and drone to patrol your house. Cathi Bond talks about the news that they are also planning a car cam which you can engage when you're pulled over by police. Cathi Bond talks about this fascinating research into tiny power generators that harness the breezes that blow by while we walk.

Cathi Bond and Nora Young are back in Nora's COVID-compliant backyard with looonnng mic cables! This time, Nora talks about this Scientific American article on research into noise cancelling tech for bigger spaces, so you can open the windows (amen!) in urban environments and still have peace and quiet. Meanwhile, Cathi talks about speculation that Major League Baseball will use drones to police mask wearing in the stands, if/when fans are allowed in the stands again (via Gizmodo).