What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 601
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
The Case For The Vape
Host Shannon Palus discusses how today’s vaping panic is connected to the rise of the cigarette with Jacob Grier, author of the new book The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative …
00:37:33 |
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Inside Uber
New York Times technology reporter Mike Issac discusses his new book Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber, which traces Uber’s rapid rise and fall under co-founder Travis Kalanick. He and host Aaron Ma…
00:36:19 |
Wed 04 Sep 2019
Cosmetic Gene Editing Gone Awry
Host Shannon Palus explores a future in which high school girls stay atop the social hierarchy by editing their genes, giving themselves purple eyes, and glittery skin. That’s what fiction author E. …
00:40:30 |
Wed 28 Aug 2019
When Your DNA is Public Information
Aaron Mak learns about how law enforcement is using public genealogy websites to crack cold cases. His guest is Nila Bala, Associate Director of Criminal Justice Policy at the R Street Institute, whi…
00:38:00 |
Wed 21 Aug 2019
The Allure of Smart Guns
In this episode Shannon Palus learns about personalized guns, sometimes referred to as “smart” guns. Her guest is Cassandra Crifasi, Deputy Director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy & Resea…
00:35:13 |
Wed 14 Aug 2019
China’s Cyber War Against Hong Kong
In this episode Aaron Mak learns about all the ways China is using cyber warfare to disrupt the efforts of protesters in Hong Kong. His guest is Nick Frisch, a fellow at Yale’s Information Society Pr…
00:32:40 |
Wed 07 Aug 2019
Chemists Spill the Science of Skincare
In this episode Shannon Palus talks to Victoria Fu and Gloria Lu, co-founders of Chemist Confessions. Their goal is to help us all cut through the marketing buzzwords of the skincare industry, and un…
00:35:39 |
Wed 31 Jul 2019
Why Facebook Can’t Just Create a Currency
In this episode Aaron Mak looks into Facebook’s plan to create a global cryptocurrency called Libra. For an expert opinion, he turns to Chris Brummer, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Cen…
00:35:41 |
Wed 24 Jul 2019
Prime Day Comes but Once a Year
In this episode, Shannon Palus talks about the journalistic ethics of Amazon affiliate links with Jacqui Cheng, former Editor-in-Chief of Wirecutter and current Editor-in-Chief of Music at WQXR in Ne…
00:28:08 |
Wed 17 Jul 2019
ICE’s Reckless Use of Facial Recognition Tech
In this episode, Aaron Mak talks about federal law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology with Jake Laperruque. He’s Senior Counsel at The Constitution Project, which is part of the Proje…
00:33:30 |
Wed 10 Jul 2019
Healthcare via Video Chat
In this episode, Shannon Palus explores the growing telehealth industry, where doctors and patients connect via video chat or sometimes just a secure message system. To figure out the benefits and po…
00:37:40 |
Wed 03 Jul 2019
When Tech Journalism Took A Critical Turn
In this episode, April Glaser catches up with her former co-host Will Oremus. Then the two of them are joined by Future Tense editor Torie Bosch and New York Times opinion writer Farhad Manjoo to dis…
00:43:15 |
Wed 26 Jun 2019
When a Scooter Makes More Sense Than a Car
In this episode, guest host Henry Grabar looks at how Zillow is trying to disrupt the real estate business—and why it might work in some cities but not others.
Then Horace Dediu answers Henry’s ques…
00:33:39 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
How Driverless Cars Will Actually Work
In this episode April Glaser talks to Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora, a company that builds the technology for self-driving cars. Urmson offers a timeline for when we might see autonomous vehicles on th…
00:26:15 |
Thu 13 Jun 2019
Re-Up: Senator Mark Warner
In this episode, April Glaser revisits an interview with Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who released a policy paper proposing possible regulations for U.S.…
00:26:35 |
Wed 05 Jun 2019
Luxury Bunkers for the End of the World
In this episode April Glaser is joined by Max Read, an editor and writer at New York Magazine who writes the column Life in Pixels.
First, April and Max talk to Patri Friedman, founder of the Seastea…
00:40:38 |
Wed 29 May 2019
Why It’s So Hard to Live in California
In this episode April Glaser is joined by co-host Kim-Mai Cutler, a partner at Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm. She’s also a former full-time journalist at TechCrunch.
First, April …
00:46:26 |
Wed 22 May 2019
Designing a Better Facebook
In this episode, April Glaser is joined by guest co-host Max Read, an editor at New York magazine who covers technology and the internet.
First, April and Max talk about Facebook co-founder Chris Hug…
00:36:36 |
Wed 15 May 2019
Cyberspace Didn’t Stay Free
In this episode April Glaser is joined once again by guest co-host Meredith Broussard, a data journalism professor at NYU and author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the Worl…
00:42:59 |
Wed 08 May 2019
Public Education, Facebook-Style
In this episode April Glaser is joined by co-host Meredith Broussard, a data journalism professor at NYU and author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.
First they ta…
00:35:20 |
Wed 01 May 2019
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