Building Tomorrow

We don’t know the consequences of the infinite scroll yet, but in order to actually live, it may be wise to be mindful of your screen time. 

Brent Skorup from the Mercatus Center addresses his new paper Auctioning Airspace. 

Vanessa Calder joins us this week to discuss whether or not residents of Crystal City, VA and Queens, NY should be excited by the arrival of Amazon.

Continuing our discussion with John Aristotle Phillips, we discuss how PredictIt may actually inspire more people to seek out the truth in politics.

John Aristotle Phillips joins us to discuss how important it is to have detailed voter data in order to run a successful political campaign. 

Happy Thanksgiving! Look no further for the most (arguably) useful and live-changing technology to put under the tree this holiday season. 

Peter Van Doren explains that debates over the use of new technologies typically focus on ethics rather than efficacy.

Ashkhen Kazaryan explains the tech world gender disparity which is most evident by the lack of women in executive-level positions at Google & Apple.

Neal McCluskey joins us to talk about how our current education system does not effectively use existing technology to help students learn.

Self- proclaimed techno-optimist, Roslyn Layton, joins us to discuss how 5G will support the internet of things. 

In order to control its’ people, China developed technology, like credit systems and facial recognition software, that concern the freer world. 

Matthew Feeney joins us to discuss how the rapid advancement of drone technology has both promising and threatening applications. 

Florian Baur from Byton talks about how their autonomous cars are prepared for the “sharing economy” of the future. 

At TechCrunch Disrupt we talk with Starkey Hearing Technologies and Pinpoint Pharma about their newest medical devices and technologies. 

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Nick Whitehouse from McCarthy Finch and Vinod Chandrashekar from 6figr.com discuss the automation of white-collar jobs.