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
Flying Cars Are Only A Few Years Away
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk talk about a new study that suggests the internet might not have played the crucial role in Trump’s election victory that we tend to assume. …
00:40:09 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
This Is How Fake News Spreads
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about what’s happening new with the proposed $3.9 billion dollar merger between Sinclair, the largest television station owner in the country…
00:41:14 |
Wed 25 Jul 2018
How a Top Twitter Exec Tackles Trolls
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus is joined by guest co-host Maya Kosoff from Vanity Fair. They discuss the latest Congressional dog and pony show involving the big social media platforms. They’ll …
00:48:34 |
Wed 18 Jul 2018
The Surveillance State's Eyes at the U.S. Border
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk to Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor of political science and policy at George Mason University and an expert on immigration and secu…
00:31:12 |
Wed 11 Jul 2018
The Supreme Court in the Cyber Age
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about the Facebook privacy scandal that won’t go away. They’ll also touch on some new data from our employer, Slate, that illustrates how Fac…
00:39:30 |
Wed 04 Jul 2018
Tech Workers Fight Back
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about the midterm elections coming up in November -- and whether Silicon Valley companies are ready for the deluge of disinformation -- wheth…
00:42:04 |
Wed 27 Jun 2018
Should Tech Companies Take a Stand Against Family Separation?
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss the horrifying story that’s on everyone’s minds this week: the Trump Administration’s policy of separating immigrant families crossing the…
00:29:33 |
Wed 20 Jun 2018
The Failed Promise of the Gig Economy
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus is joined by guest co-host Maya Kosoff from Vanity Fair. They discuss the electric scooters that are suddenly wreaking havoc on city streets—and why Silicon Valley…
00:38:09 |
Wed 13 Jun 2018
Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico.
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about how Microsoft is buying GitHub, Google is ending its Pentagon contract, and all the news from Apple’s developer conference on Monday—in…
00:45:04 |
Wed 06 Jun 2018
Bloody Money and Blind Investors
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about GDPR, Europe’s sweeping new online privacy legislation that took effect last Friday. They explain why it triggered an avalanche of emai…
00:40:35 |
Wed 30 May 2018
Google’s Chokehold on the Web
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about about a privacy invasion that’s arguably scarier than Cambridge Analytica, and why it’s not getting nearly the same amount of attention…
00:39:06 |
Wed 23 May 2018
Welcome to the Swamp
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about about an unexpected move by President Trump that could save the Chinese electronics maker ZTE. Also in the news is Project Maven, a Pe…
00:51:58 |
Wed 16 May 2018
Baby, You Can Self-Drive My Car
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about the hedge fund that’s gutting the newsrooms of local newspapers across the country—and racking up huge profits. They also discuss the f…
00:41:45 |
Wed 09 May 2018
Why an E-Waste Recycler Is Going to Prison
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about Facebook’s big privacy changes and its foray into online dating, as Glaser reports from the company’s annual developer conference in Sa…
00:47:03 |
Wed 02 May 2018
The Cost of Online Immunity
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about a somewhat surprising speech from the antitrust chief of Trump’s DOJ. They bring you up to date on a big new data privacy bill …
00:52:05 |
Wed 25 Apr 2018
What If Facebook Used Data For Black Lives?
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about trouble at Tesla: the company has suspended production of the Model 3, the car that will make or break its business. The hosts …
00:44:37 |
Wed 18 Apr 2018
What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Share
Will Congress let Mark Zuckerberg get away with under-sharing? On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus break down the Facebook chief’s trip to Washington to testify before Congre…
00:32:06 |
Thu 12 Apr 2018
Congress Called. They Want Our Data Back.
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus bring us an early-week show in anticipation of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress Tuesday and Wednesday (which also mean…
00:30:11 |
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Alexa, How Do You Really Work?
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the outrage at the largest television station owner in the country—Sinclair Broadcasting—after the media conglomerate forced its l…
00:43:15 |
Wed 04 Apr 2018
Facebook’s Deepwater Horizon
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus dissect the latest fallout from the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, wherein the profile data of over 50 million Facebook users was o…
00:51:03 |
Wed 28 Mar 2018
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