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Sign up for 'The Practical Futurist' newsletter here Hosted by award-winning podcast creator, journalist & futurist Mark Pesce, The Next Billion Seconds is everything you need to know about the future — so you can make the best decisions today. The rate of change we are experiencing is the faste...
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ALWAYS IMPERFECT - EPISODE 5 - BUILDING RESISTANCE
What would you do if you lost your job to an AI? Would you even know? It happened to me - and I didn't learn the truth for six months. In the aftermat...
ALWAYS IMPERFECT - EPISODE 4 - STOP THE WOKE AI!
While the US focuses on putting the brakes on 'woke AI' (whatever that is) the rest of the world's nations confront thorny questions about how to regu...
ALWAYS IMPERFECT - A BETTER WAY
ALWAYS IMPERFECT Episode 3: A BETTER WAY
Used well, artificial intelligence can automate labor-intensive and rote processes, freeing people for...
ALWAYS IMPERFECT: "VIBE SLOGGING"
Can a computer program a computer as well as a human being can? Artificial intelligence enabled a quantum leap in the quality of the tools programmer...
ALWAYS IMPERFECT: "NO MAGIC WANDS"
Always Imperfect - Episode 1 - NO MAGIC WANDS
Artificial intelligence may be amazing but it’s always imperfect. Anyone trying to use AI professi...
TWO FUTURISTS GO 'VIBE FORECASTING'
Whenever fellow futurist and longtime friend Rob Tercek and I (Mark Pesce) get together, we go crazy deep on the future: What happens when lazy humans...
RNZ Nine to Noon: ADDICTION IS THE BUSINESS MODEL
Mark joins RNZ Nine to Noon host Kathryn Ryan to delve into the sudden phenomenon of 'viral' AI videos - getting better at capturing your eyeballs. Di...
The Next Billion Cars - Experiences in 'Range Anxiety'
On a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, Mark rented an EV, drove to a rural town on the Mendocino coast, then drove back again. That trip taug...
RNZ Nine to Noon: DOES CHATGPT MAKE YOU STUPID?
A recent study from MIT shows students tasked with writing essays showed significantly lower levels of brain activity when allowed to use ChatGPT. Mar...
RNZ NINE TO NOON: CAN CHATGPT MAKE YOU CRAZY?
RNZ NINE TO NOON: CAN CHATGPT MAKE YOU CRAZY?
In conversation with host Kathryn Ryan, Mark highlights a number of reports indicating potentially...
Mo Meta, Mo Problems: Could Facebook be broken up?
From Radio New Zealand's Nine To Noon: Meta - the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and much more besides - finds itself fighting for its life...
RNZ Nine To Noon - Should we give up copyright to beat China in the race for AI?
Originally broadcast on 20th March, 2025 on Radio New Zealand's Nine To Noon with host Kathryn Ryan.
Christie's held its first auction of AI-ge...
AI WARTECH - Has technology turned to the dark side?
Originally broadcast on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon on 13 February 2025
Last week Google amended its ethical AI policies to allow their AI...
Gradually. Then Suddenly
"How did you go bankrupt?" begins the oft-quoted line from Hemingway. "Two ways. Gradually - then suddenly." That's how the automotive sector feels at...
The War over Plant-Based foods with Nick Hazell
In 2018, Nick Hazell founded v2food - an amazing startup making plant-based substitutes for meat that got extensive coverage on THE NEXT BILLION SECON...
The New Alchemy
The impacts of global heating have become persistent and profound, so we need to do as much as we can to lesson those impacts, as quickly as we can. T...
The Next Billion Cars - 2024 in Review (part 2)
In this final year in review episode, Sally Dominguez, Drew Smith and Mark Pesce address the big, smelly elephant in the room: The change of governmen...
The Next Billion Cars - 2024 in review (part 1)
Whenever Mark, Sal and Drew get together, sparks will fly. So much has happened since our visit to CES 2024, we reckoned it time to draw all the year'...
The $100,000,000,000 Lie
The $100,000,000,000 Lie — “In 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk instructed his team of engineers to 'hard code' the first demo of what would become 'Full Sel...
Neo Malaise with Drew Smith
The Next Billion Cars co-host Drew Smith... has something to say.
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Your Data, My Privacy - with Sally Dominguez
The Next Billion Cars co-host Sally Dominguez examines at the data hungry nature of modern vehicles. What does privacy look like in the age of 'artifi...
The Next Billion Cars - with Drew Smith at SXSW Sydney
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SXSW 2024 ZEEKR: HOW DOES A NEW BRAND SURVIVE? With Gustaf Gunér
A special episode of The Next Billion Cars with Drew Smith and Mark Pesce - car brand ZEEKR: HOW DOES A NEW BRAND SURVIVE? With Gustaf Gunér - head of...
Ghosts in the Machine
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In this series of THE NEXT BILLION SECONDS we'll explore the enormous changes that are tak...
Live at SXSW: A Fine Line between technology and anthropology with Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher of MIT Technology Review
Live at SXSW: A Fine Line between technology and anthropology with Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher of MIT Technology Review
Ever s...
AI UNEMPLOYED
On this episode, we stare into the abyss of one of our deepest fears - that AI has suddenly made us all obsolete. Or has it?
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CHIPS AND CHAINS
On this episode, we look at what's happened to one of the most important areas of the economy - the semiconductor industry. The very few firms who mak...
THE FOUR-DAY WEEK IS ALREADY HERE
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We've tacitly adopted the four-day week from two directions... The Future has arrived... T...
The Future Has Arrived
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The Future has arrived... The last two years have seen more change and the previous 20. Are...
VALE: Vernor Vinge - creator of a "Technological Singularity"
Science fiction legend Vernor Vinge inspired the title of this podcast - and his influence extends far beyond fiction. His novella "True Names" gave r...
Cryptonomics - So long and thanks for all the grift!
Mark started working with cryptocurrencies back in 2014. Ten years at the coalface has convinced him that - despite incredible promise - cryptocurrenc...
The Next Billion Cars - What Happens in Vegas, Part DEUX!
Despite some new car announcements from Honda, this year's Consumer Electronics Show reveals a stagnant automotive sector that seems to have lost its...
CES 2024 - What Happens in Vegas, part one!
The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the biggest conventions in the world, featuring gadgets of every size and description. It’s also the most impo...
The Next Billion Cars - Year in Review (2023)
The year of 'brolectrification', artificial intelligence working its way into car dashboards, a Chinese EV invasion - and Cybertruck's domination. At...
BONUS EP: Tip for Superpowers School Podcast - featuring Mark Pesce
RESHARE! Thanks to Paddy Dhanda for having Mark Pesce on his Podcast Superpowers school - we're happy to be sharing here!
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Chasing the Technology - 'Autonomous Agents' reach critical mass
Autonomous agents - computer programs that can think and act for themselves - have been an impossible dream for almost forty years. Suddenly, they're...
The Gunpowder Plot - How Meta put an AI chatbot on your smartphone and changed the game
While everyone was going gaga over ChatGPT, Meta - the former Facebook - rewrote the AI playbook with LLaMA. Small enough to run on a smartphone, LLaM...
When It Changed -- How ChatGPT became the fastest growing app ever.
On 30 November 2022 startup OpenAI released ChatGPT, resetting expectations for artificial intelligence. Only one year later and billions now have acc...
The Next Billion Cars - "Hard Questions"
While they've worked together for five years, Mark, Sal and Drew have never met face-to-face - until this show. Eyeball-to-eyball they ask one another...
Bonus Ep! Horace Dediu in conversation with Drew Smith
SPECIAL EPISODE. We were so happy with Special Correspondent Drew Smith’s rich and powerful interview with Horace Dediu, we wanted to share an episode...