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 Civil Rights Group Targeted By Facebook
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the news that Tumblr will soon be banning all adult content on its site -- this in response to some instances of child pornography that got…
00:43:24 |
Wed 05 Dec 2018
Tomorrow's Children, Edited.
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the ongoing fallout at Facebook over the company’s decision to hire a conservative PR firm to surface opposition research in order to attac…
00:39:43 |
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Facebook's Former Security Chief on What Went Wrong
On today’s show, host Will Oremus will discuss the fallout from last week’s New York Times expose about Facebook with the company’s former Security Chief Alex Stamos.
The Times story was headlined “…
00:46:46 |
Wed 21 Nov 2018
Amazon's Prime Real Estate
On today’s show, host Will Oremus will talk about the employee uprising at Google, and the changes that it and other tech companies have made to their sexual harassment policies in response. Joining …
00:43:44 |
Wed 14 Nov 2018
The Meme Midterms
Will Oremus and April Glaser are bringing you a special episode of If Then, all about the midterm elections and the role of Silicon Valley and online media in our beloved democratic process. We’re go…
00:59:08 |
Mon 05 Nov 2018
The Internet of Hate
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser look further into the presidential election in Brazil and how tech has played a role. On Sunday, the far right candidate Jair Bolsanaro was electe…
00:45:28 |
Wed 31 Oct 2018
Who Owns Your DNA Data?
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss Elon Musk’s other, other project with their Slate colleague Henry Grabar. Not space travel, not electric cars, but the Boring Company, whi…
00:35:01 |
Wed 24 Oct 2018
How Senator Mark Warner Wants to Crack Down on Tech
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss the continuing saga that is Facebook’s effort to fix itself--ideally, without breaking everything else. On Friday, the company finally rel…
00:40:00 |
Wed 17 Oct 2018
Is Privacy A Right?
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss the latest data spill in Silicon Valley: It’s Google this time. And it’s time to talk gadgets again. This week Facebook announced its seco…
00:44:54 |
Wed 10 Oct 2018
Fact And Fiction on Wikipedia
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about the announcement that Amazon would raise the minimum wage for its US workers to 15 dollars an hour. While Jeff Bezos may be receiving p…
00:56:22 |
Wed 03 Oct 2018
Reshuffling the Podcasting Deck
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about the recent announcement that Instagram’s founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, would be leaving the company - at least in part due t…
00:42:30 |
Wed 26 Sep 2018
Tech Barons Are the New Media Barons
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about a literal moonshot. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced the first private customer who is signed up for a trip around earth’s moon, poss…
00:45:42 |
Wed 19 Sep 2018
If Then Presents: The Secret History of The Future
Technology continues to change the way we live and work. Which is why The Secret History of The Future—the new technology show from Slate and The Economists—is digging through the past to find lesson…
00:44:04 |
Sun 16 Sep 2018
Special Report: Apple’s New (Old) Gizmos
We have a special bonus If Then! On Wednesday afternoon Apple held its big annual event full of new and expensive gadgets. We wanted to help you make sense of what happened, and what it means. Host W…
00:24:16 |
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Google’s Real Biases
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss California’s landmark decision to eliminate cash bail for defendants in criminal cases--and the controversial algorithmic “risk assessment…
00:46:46 |
Wed 12 Sep 2018
How The Future Of Music Streaming Will Sound
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser are joined once again by their Slate colleague Mark Joseph Stern to make sense of a what a Kavanaugh-court might mean for the internet going forwa…
00:43:22 |
Wed 05 Sep 2018
Twitter Without the Nazis
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss reports that big tech companies are lobbying in favor of a national privacy law. They’ll talk about what their motivations are. (Hint: It’…
00:40:34 |
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Google’s Secret Censorship Project
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about a new Russian hacking report--this time, targeting conservatives. And it’s been a busy news week (as always) for Facebook, with reports…
00:48:53 |
Wed 22 Aug 2018
Making Sense of Elon Musk
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about how Google has been tracking and storing your location—even after you’ve asked it not to. Then they review some of the disturbing secur…
00:46:21 |
Wed 15 Aug 2018
Embracing Deplorable Status
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss why a bunch of the big tech platforms—Facebook, YouTube, Apple—are suddenly banning the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his m…
00:45:57 |
Wed 08 Aug 2018
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