State of the Net Podcast

In this episode we discuss the wider meaning of West World (spoilers so if you haven't watched it yet don't listen), then we move on to how not to get driven berserk by frustration with technology, how not to be triggered in social media platforms and life generally, oh and could we adopt a rapid prototyping approach to government?

In this episode we talk about Joe Rogan moving to Spotify, we consider that organisations don't tweet, people do™, chat about the future of travel and how habits will change when we'll go back to an office, ponder about the importance of good writing when engaged in asynchronous work.

Yet another quarantine episode, where we talk about slogans, post war scenarios, how hard it its to build the tracing app we are all waiting for (and software in general), recommended TV shows, command line meditation, and how fun it is hoarding, organising and finding information.

In this episode we wonder which are the changes that will stick at the end of all this, we discuss about who is deciding about our privacy in contact tracing apps, and we consider which tools could be created to further empower communities. Things mentioned in this episode: Mark Manson's article https://bit.ly/2yP4YuL, Smarter every day episode https://bit.ly/3d9bStJ, the Professor and the Madman movie: https://amzn.to/2zDxjo1 

In this episode we mostly chat about some of the latest covid-related tech news and think about how the solutions proposed by Apple, Google and others might look like, in the yet to be announced exit strategy.

In this episode we talk about the resilience and opportunities offered by today's huge supply chains, centralised vs. distributed systems, the Queen, and how, once again, it's is all about creating new stories for us all to believe. Here's the link to the episode of NPR Planet Money that we mention: https://n.pr/2RoJrPV

Just one week after the last one, here's a brand new episode! This time we chat about a letter from a sick man, how are we coping with information about a very complex problem, how will we deal when things (won't) go back to "normal", we consider having a guest and we also give a recommendation for a good audiobook: https://adbl.co/2ykj2Mk

In this episode we wonder if this is really the beginning of a new era and we manage to complain about everybody talking about that thing, while talking about the thing. We hope you are all well and safe.

Welcome to the first episode of 2020! We could not start without talking about the virus that is changing everybody's habits: from video conferencing to pollution to social media. Then we chat a bit about the importance of narrating human experience on your social media channels and we discuss about podcast vs. YouTube as places to learn stuff. 

Last show of 2019! We start by chatting about Paolo's other podcast [1], then Sacha Baron Cohen's ADL speech [2] and Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new Contract for the web [3]. We move on conversing about millennials, what is right or wrong, we wonder if we would be better off without any rules and we discuss a bit about journalism and its future.

1. https://www.investor-series.com

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM

3. https://contractfortheweb.org