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204 episodes transcribedYour host attempts to write a description for the Podcast. He seeks assistance from an old book, and the plot whisperer.
Photographer Robert Burley takes pictures of the end of analog for his book The Disappearance Of Darkness. Christine Frohnert and Christiane...
“This is part of the sharing economy, I am sharing myself” Our instaserfs series comes to a crushing conclusion, Hear Instapoder Andrew at...
Instaserfs II: “Chipolte Strikes back” or “Seriously, in the sharing economy no one can hear you work” Either tagline works for our second...
In the sharing economy no one can hear you work. This is because companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others only employ “partners”...
Benjamen and Mathilde continue exploring the intersection between France and China over wine. In this installment they traverse China talki...
The voice of the ToE episode announcer revealed! (her name is Mathilde) and she joins our host for this two part series about the intersec...
In this program (which originally aired on the ABC last December) your host makes his final attempt to build the ultimate anti-social-media...
Our series concludes with an attempt to examine the suburbanized commodified inner cityscape of New York. Author and activist Sarah Schul...
Our series continues with a journey from Avenue B to Bushwick: Kathy Kirkpatrick tells us about the final days of her Life Cafe in the East V...
The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of Airbnb. And...
Decades before the first shot was fired in the American revolution a band of runaway slaves known as the Maroons living in the mountains in...
Cédric Villani won the prestigious Fields Medal for his work in 2010. He wrote a book about his experience called Birth of a Theorem: A Ma...
Yours truly is recuperating from 2014 in France but wishing you a happy holiday. Hope you enjoyed the programming this year. The dislike cl...
In the penultimate episode of our series, Kathy Sierra tells us how one tweak could fix everything and ToE’s Chris tells us the secret orig...
In 2007 writer, programmer, and horse trainer Kathy Sierra quit the internet because of misogynist hate trolling. She stayed off the social w...
This week Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman tells us about the internet’s original Dislike Club, Anonymous. Biella has spent the last eight ye...
Our mini-series about the internet continues. This week we take a close look at the fundamental business model of the web – advertising. In...
Paul Ford is a technologist and a writer, sometimes these two things blur. For example, he’s currently working on a book about webpages, but...
For this special installment of the Theory of Everything we explore Maker Culture. Makerbot co-founder Bre Pettis gives us a tour of his...
