Radiolab - Breaking News

Today, two new technological tricks that together could invade our most deeply held beliefs and rewrite the rules of credibility. Also, we release something terrible into the world. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

Duration: 52m
Broadcast on: 19 Nov 2019
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Today, two new technological tricks that together could invade our most deeply held beliefs and rewrite the rules of credibility. Also, we release something terrible into the world.

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You're listening to Radiolab. From WNYC. All right, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. I can hear you. They can't hear me. No, we can hear you. We can hear you, but what we can also hear is us twice. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm Chad Eibomrod. I'm Robert Krollich. This is Radiolab, and today, you don't hear us. We have a story about how the echoes of you can go out into the world and come back, invite you, and all of us, really, in the butt. Oh, wait, we'll be both fine now. Is my echo gone? Yes. Okay, okay, we're good. We're good. And it comes to us from our producers, Simon Adler. Yeah, Nick, hello, I'm sorry. Okay, so this is Nick built. My name is Nick built, and I'm a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. And his beat, you could say, is trying to predict the future of technology. To look into the future and to this kind of crystal ball and try to predict what the next five, 10, 15 years would look like for the media industry. Do you have a good batting record? Like, did you call some big ones? Oh, yeah. You know, phones in our pockets that would be like super computers, that social media would drive news, not newspapers and so on, and things like that. So it's been pretty good. I reached out to you because I came across this article that you wrote, an article that sent shivers down my spine. And I'm not one to typically be given shivers by articles. So I guess how did you stumble into all of this and where does this start for you? So I was sitting around with some friends in my living room and a friend of mine mentioned, "Oh did you see this thing that Adobe put out recently?" We live in a time when more people than ever before believe that they can change the world. And that conversation led Nick to a video, a video online of the Adobe MAX 2016 conference.

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