MIT Technology Review Narrated
Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share one of our most ambitious stories, from print and online, narrated for us by real voice actors. Expect big themes, thought-provoking topics, and sharp analysis, all backed by our trusted reporting.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 144
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
In the future, CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer, potentially opening up paths for tinkering with human evolution. What will that mean for our species?
This story was written by senior …
00:32:28 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
Did you know that NASA intends to destroy the International Space Station by around 2030? Once it's gone, private companies will likely swoop in with their own replacements. Get ready for the great c…
00:43:30 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom
Pump jacks and pipelines clutter the Elk Hills oil field of California, a scrubby stretch of land in the southern Central Valley that rests above one of the nation’s richest deposits of fossil fuels.…
00:27:47 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Robots that can do many of the things humans do in the home—folding laundry, cooking meals, cleaning—have been a dream of robotics research since the inception of the field in the 1950s.
While engi…
00:28:02 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto
In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine. But some are wondering what crypto has to do with conservation.
This story…
00:36:14 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
How gamification took over the world
We live in an undeniably gamified world. We stand up and move around to close colorful rings and earn achievement badges on our smartwatches; we meditate and sleep to recharge our body batteries; we …
00:18:04 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?
Digital clones of people's dead relatives are far from perfect: they're occasionally impersonal and sometimes downright creepy. But if the technology might help us hang onto the people we love, is it…
00:29:07 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”
A Silicon Valley startup wants to supercharge trees to soak up more carbon and cool the climate. Is this the great climate solution or a whole lot of hype?
This story was written by Boyce Upholt and …
00:37:20 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
What is AI?
Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology of our time. But what is it? It sounds like a stupid question, but it’s one that’s never been more urgent.
MIT Technology Review takes a deep dive …
01:20:49 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
The cost of building the perfect wave
The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland, making surfing more accessible to communities far from the coasts.
These pools can use—and lose—millions upon millions …
00:29:12 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
Open-world video games are inhabited by vast crowds of computer-controlled characters. These animated people—called NPCs, for “nonplayer characters”—populate the bars, city streets, or space ports of…
00:30:32 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs
At any given time, the US organ transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Martine Rothblatt sees a day when an unlimited supply of transplantable organs—and 3D-printed ones—will be readil…
00:23:40 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
Design thinking suggests that we are all creatives, and we can solve any problem if we empathize hard enough. The methodology was supposed to democratize design, but it may have done the opposite. Wh…
00:30:30 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
Tokelau is a group of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand (of which it’s an official territory) and Hawaii. Its population hovers around 1,400 people. Reachi…
00:26:45 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
An AI startup created a hyperrealistic deepfake of MIT Technology Review’s senior AI reporter that was so believable, even she thought it was really her at first. This technology is impressive, to be…
00:29:45 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
It’s time to retire the term “user”
Though “user” seems to describe a relationship that is deeply transactional, many of the technological relationships in which a person would be considered a user are actually quite personal. That bei…
00:15:17 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
We've known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon was just a pinprick of light in our telescopes— a bright and curious companion…
00:28:15 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
Despite all their runaway success, nobody knows exactly how—or why—large language models work. And that’s a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial…
00:17:59 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
How ASML took over the chipmaking chessboard
Moore’s Law holds that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years or so. In essence, it means that chipmakers are always trying to shrink the transistors on a microchi…
00:20:25 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum
AI consciousness isn’t just a devilishly tricky intellectual puzzle; it’s a morally weighty problem with potentially dire consequences. Fail to identify a conscious AI, and you might unintentionally …
00:32:03 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
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