Summary: <p>Contact Tracing, Synthetic Biology</p><ul> <li> Ask a futurist: how do we get from now to the Covid-19 free future? Steer into the slide.</li> <li> The future of synthetic biology is sticking viruses into our systems as medication</li> <li> Apple-Google contact tracing vs Palantir: who do you trust?</li> <li> France bans Amazon from selling non-essential items: should America follow? Should Amazon be doing more with automation?</li> <li> The best videoconferencing etiquette</li> <li> Why are people tearing down 5g towers to fight coronavirus?</li> <li> What new businesses are going to be born out of the Covid-19 crisis? Automation, synthetic biology, and delivery get a VC boost</li> <li> AI development and Big Tech data gathering is leading us down a dystopian superhighway</li> <li> Is CES gone for good? How long can movie theaters stay closed?</li> <li> Salute to the real heroes - the IT people keeping us all connected in this crisis</li> <li> Distance learning: what is working, what isn't, and what is the future of education?</li> <li> How did Microsoft fumble Cortana? The same way they fumbled Windows Phone</li> <li> Apple hopes to put its own chips in macs</li> <li> Google says AI can design a chip in 6 hours</li> <li> The next world war will be fought in cyberspace</li> <li> Kim Jong Un: Dead or alive? Will North Korea be the next manufacturing hotspot or a radioactive crater?</li> </ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://amywebb.io/" target="_blank">Amy Webb</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/iain-thomson">Iain Thomson</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://extrahop.com/TWIT">extrahop.com/TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://LastPass.com/twit">LastPass.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="https://twit.cachefly.com">twit.cachefly.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stamps.com/radio/twit">www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT</a></li> </ul>
