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 Tech That Draws Your District
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus take a deep look into gerrymandering and the highly specialized mapping technology that has allowed for political parties - especially the…
00:26:32 |
Wed 21 Mar 2018
What Keeps Facebook Up at Night
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss Elon Musk’s plan to… colonize Mars? They explain how sanctuary cities may unwittingly be sharing data with ICE through police surv…
00:42:15 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
Nietzsche with a 3D Printer
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus try to make sense of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s rare honest assessment of his company’s shortfalls, and what new state regulations mean for…
00:48:38 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
“You Have to Be Heard”
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus take a look at Vero, the new social network that has people fleeing Instagram and Facebook, how conspiracy theories after the Parkland mas…
00:46:44 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
How Russian Trolls Went Local
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus dig into special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s recent indictment of 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies for their role in tampering…
00:38:14 |
Wed 21 Feb 2018
“Like” Is Too Simple an Emotion
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus lamentthe anticlimactic end to Waymo and Uber’s court drama, explain why teens are pissed at Snapchat, and examine John Perry Barlow’s con…
00:45:28 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
FISA and Fury
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about a new anti-tech lobbying group formed by ex-employees of Facebook and Google, the big trial that’s happening this week in San F…
00:42:38 |
Wed 07 Feb 2018
Through The Revolving Door Between Facebook and Democrats
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about about a clever effort to restore net neutrality in Montana and New York. They also discuss Facebook’s latest news feed tweaks: …
00:37:33 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
Dudebros Everyday
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about Facebook’s fraught plan to rate the media and the cool yet creepy Amazon store that automatically bills you for your purchases.…
00:33:41 |
Wed 24 Jan 2018
The Problem With Facebook Is Facebook
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about the Senate’s stand on net neutrality and why Congress is set to renew a major piece of internet government mass surveillance le…
00:36:15 |
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Live from CES: Our Dumb "Smart" Future
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus are at CES, the huge trade show put on by the Consumer Technology Association in Las Vegas. They talk about all the weird, wonderful, and …
00:34:16 |
Wed 10 Jan 2018
Science Fiction by ABBA
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about a key detail in the new tax plan that could have a huge effect on gig workers in the tech sector—and maybe even robots. They al…
00:35:59 |
Wed 03 Jan 2018
What’s a Firefox?
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk with the executive director of Mozilla about how Firefox competes with Chrome and the biggest threats to the Open Web. They break dow…
00:40:58 |
Wed 20 Dec 2017
Beanie Babies for Geeks
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk a little about why everyone is freaking out about Bitcoin. And in the run up to Thursday’s critical net neutrality decision from the …
00:32:01 |
Wed 13 Dec 2017
The Ellen Pao Effect
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser talks with Ellen Pao about sexism in Silicon Valley and why the tech industry hasn’t experienced the same fallout over accusations of sexual harassment an…
00:27:43 |
Wed 06 Dec 2017
Antitrust Superstar
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss how bots messed up the net neutrality comment process and whether that gives advocates a last chance to preserve an open Internet.…
00:37:54 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
Hack Friday
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about changes to net neutrality that were announced this week. They also talk a little about the digital media bubble and if it’s rea…
00:42:43 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
Leaving Zen on the Table
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss some recent tech news, like the head-scratching revelation that WikiLeaks actually sent Donald Trump, Jr. Direct Messages on Twitt…
00:48:36 |
Wed 15 Nov 2017
You Can’t Hardcode Community
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss the news that YouTube has been showing disturbing videos to kids and why this might be a symptom of a much deeper problem for Inte…
00:38:24 |
Wed 08 Nov 2017
Trash Moths to the Trash Flame
Hosts and Slate journalists April Glaser and Will Oremus are excited to bring you this new weekly podcast: If Then.
The hosts start by talking through some of the most interesting tech news of the w…
00:44:34 |
Thu 02 Nov 2017
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