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Last week we claimed the Skywalkers were rising. This week MSP takes a look at some at the science and tech advances that are giving hope for the coming decade.  [] Show Notes [] Flaming Twenties isn’t a reference to Australia’s bush fires, is it? No. That would be quite crass.  No I mean it in the popular fire emoji sense. The decade where our ingenuity and awareness are on fire.  Last decade pretty poor. Last episode, ran thru some of many reasons this might be the case.  Overreach of silicon valley and tech firms, Dark money and fake news.  General mistrust of technology and science.  None of which indicates why you’d be optimistic for the future. Last week we talked about realisation. The noughties was a decade of hope, where we trusted tech would liberate us and enrich us, materially and spiritually. Rather than send us into dark holes of despair and dissatisfaction? Exactly. Not going to go over same ground. Listen to last week’s show if you need a does of despair and devilry. But I ended it with so

MSP is in shameless Star Wars stealing-mode this week. Over the last decade, the forces of Silicon Valley seem to have transformed from information and data disruptors into Final Order-style monopolists. Are the 2020s set to become the battlefield for the Data Wars? [] Show Notes [] This is a good start to a new decade, with you stealing notes from the Star Wars franchise. Xmas holiday Reading about runaway tech Threat to our democracy, freedom. Silicon Valley turning from liberator to demagogue, On the back of it Govts losing control. Rampant surveillance capitalism. So much doom and gloom. They’re are all topics that you’ve spoken about at length on this show. True. Not knocking the truth of these pieces. Or importance of understanding what’s in them. Have to examine the Dark Side. Is that where the Star Wars analogy comes in? Kind of. It’s also a nice way to ease into 2020. If you think of digital tech in the early noughties as being the first rush after the Empire fell. Technology represented peop

As we get ready to launch a new decade, we’re taking some time to look back at some of the changes in science and technology that we’ve seen over the last decade.

This week MSP returns with a time travel update, a vomiting asteroid, more brain implants, and ready-to-wear exoskeleton. With a twist of grime. Bud-a-bup-bup.

It’s no surprise when Matt takes an idea and stretches it until it’s so thin you could wrap it with a nanotube. We’ve had Ask Matt Anything. Ask Matt More Anything. And this week MSP has Ask Myself Anything.

We had so many questions on last week's episode. And he takes so long to answer them. This week we gave Matt a time limit of 2 minutes to get through as many listener questions as he could. And some of Jeff's too. Find out about the future of education, what science can't solve and why it's impossible to answer four questions in 120 seconds.

Is a hidden epidemic of perfectionism creating stress and anxiety? How can we escape the perfection trap in a world of curated experiences? Episode Sources: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332430-600-the-misunderstood-personality-trait-that-is-causing-anxiety-and-stress/ https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000138.pdf Episode Excerpt: We keep hearing about ideas like the perfection trap. But is it real? Does the perfection trap exist? That’s probably the hardest question of today’s show. Because it’s totally subjective. Certainly - and I don’t think it’s the first time we’ve discussed this subject this year We are seeing an increase in the numbers of people with mental health issues. Particularly people in the generations we define as millennial and digital native. And while perfectionism isn’t generally accepted as an illness in and of itself, It has been closely linked to eating disorders, OCD, anxiety and depression. It does seem that people with those conditions are more likel

We're off-air this week. So, here, in light of recent global attempts at fakery, is one of our most popular episodes of 2019: Fake It Till You Make It. Are you selling the dream or running a long con? How to sort the Silicon Valley spin from the outright lies. We've got a ton of show links this week. Great reporting from all these sources. Support content makers!!! Show Links: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/26/8114391/inventions-dumb-fads http://fortune.com/silicon-valley-startups-fraud-venture-capital/ https://www.wired.com/story/theranos-and-silicon-valleys-fake-it-till-you-make-it-culture/ https://www.wired.com/story/theranos-and-silicon-valleys-fake-it-till-you-make-it-culture/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/21/big-tech-products-silicon-valley https://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Spectacular-recent-Bay-Area-tech-startup-failures-12378764.php#photo-14592820 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/elizabeth-holmes-and-her-firm-theranos-show-why-we-

As Malaysia celebrates its 62nd year of independence, MSP looks at some of the milestones in technology and science since 1957. We're a little behind in posting episodes, so please enjoy the multiple feeds this week! EPISODE EXCERPT With his authoritarian nature we’re not entirely sure it was a good idea to ask Matt to put together a list of tech and science advances and breakthroughs to celebrate the 62 years since Malaysian Independence. But MSP is a show that takes risks. And Matt has promised to keep today’s content WHO compliant. Unlike many of his business ventures. How are we going to do this? Chronologically? I thought that that would be a bit boring. As riveting as listening to me reciting a list of facts for 25 minutes would be, I thought jumping about might make it a bit more interesting. Because it’s also about looking at the way those discoveries are interconnected. How one breakthrough leads to another. And how they might appear to be unrelated. Which means you have to give us an e

Negative stories in your social media feeds getting you down? Let The Knowledge soothe your troubles with edible algae, miracle magnets and a keto-based migraine cure. We're a little behind in posting episodes, so please enjoy the multiple feeds this week! Episode Sources: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213394-ketogenic-diet-may-stop-migraines-by-changing-the-brains-fuel/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213755-cities-are-using-walls-of-moss-to-tackle-air-pollution-from-traffic/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/13/algae-spirulina-e3-blue-majik-health-benefits https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/13/algae-spirulina-e3-blue-majik-health-benefits https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213622-tiny-magnets-could-help-rid-the-ocean-of-harmful-microplastics/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213756-a-classic-quantum-theorem-may-prove-there-are-many-parallel-universes/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213655-having-kids-makes-you-happier-but-only-when-th

You eat healthily. Exercise. Meditate to avoid stress. You care about the environment. And you allow tech companies to sell that data to companies intent on undoing all your good work. Welcome to the Won’t Pay Paradox.

Chimeras, a mainstay of fantasy fiction, are now scientific fact. From this strange new perspective we ask: Would you give a monkey a human brain?

In July 1979, mobile technology was born in Tokyo. It wasn’t the Internet or the mobile phone. It was the Sony Walkmen that transformed the way we experience the world. Sources: Episode Sources: https://www.businessinsider.com/history-listening-to-music-recorded-walkman-2019-6?r=US&IR=T#in-1981-the-new-york-times-wrote-that-the-cassette-player-was-the-most-eagerly-wished-for-of-all-gifts-the-device-allowed-people-to-not-only-listen-to-recorded-music-but-easily-make-their-own-recordings-too-this-gave-birth-to-the-mixtape-era-in-which-people-could-record-songs-they-heard-on-the-radio-10 https://mymodernmet.com/?p=218368 https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/7/20683049/retro-bluetooth-cassette-tape-player-kickstarter https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/loud-and-clear/ https://pitchfork.com/news/bjork-reissuing-all-9-albums-as-multicolor-cassettes/ Episode Excerpt: We’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of a technology that half of our listeners have never heard of, let alone used. We’re celebra

The robots are coming. Not a new message for MSP. It’s not the robots that want to take your jobs. It’s their human overlords and the people who enable them.

What does it mean to be human in a world full of sentient machines and technologically enhanced people? In another Disrupted World special, we take a look at the future of the human species and get ready to welcome our quantum cousins.

In the final part of our Disrupted World series, MSP asks the ultimate question: is it time to break up the tech giants? Do we have the power and the will? Will it solve the problems big tech has created, or do we have to look deeper, at finding alternate solutions and pushing them through ourselves.

In part 3 of our Disrupted World series, MSP takes a look at the social costs of digital disruption and asks if we are somehow becoming less human in the process. Of course, that takes us to CoffeGate, Game of Thrones and Gladiator, and Matt considers launching the world’s first Sesame Street fake movie review podcast. Episode Excerpt This week we’re staying with us, people, consumers, listeners - whatever you want to call us - to ask: what’s happened to our humanity? I assume this is a response to CoffeGate? •Hey Jeff. •Isn’t it strange how these serendipitous things pop up. •We’re in the middle of a disrupted world series. We were working on human empathy – or the lack of it – for today’s show. •And what do we get? A barrel roll of haters piling on because a modern day coffee cup was stuck in the background of a shot of this week’s Game of Thrones. •For those of you who have better things to do with your day, in a shot of the post battle feast in the episode, a takeaway coffee cup was left on a table in

In the 2nd part of our Disrupted World series, MSP dismisses Avengers Endgame and looks to The CW’s The 100 for a solution to our privacy problems. It was supposed to be a celebration of Star Wars for May 4th but we couldn’t think of anything that hasn’t already been done. That’s how Disruptive we are. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9 Show Links: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/reuters-america-update-2-facebook-overhauls-messaging-as-it-pivots-to-privacy.html Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws. As this show is airing on May 3rd, you might expect that uber Geek Matt Armitage would be doing a Mattsplained Star Wars tribute today. The answer, of course, is no. It seems like we’re going with the return of the slightly trashy steampunk sci-fi show The 100, instead. Are we continuing last week’s Disruption theme with a TV show about the most Disrupted future you can imagine? •Yes, I’m con

It’s the entrepreneurial equivalent of a middle finger. Disruption is more than a tech bro buzzword. It’s a destructive force that we’ll be paying the price of for generations to come. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9 Show Links: https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38901702-lab-rats https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/future Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws. I’ve been away from MSP for the past few weeks. Because Matt decided that I needed some attitude adjustment. However, while I was away our Inbox was flooded with complaints that the show was starting to sound like the BBC Shipping Forecast. So, who’s attitude do you think needed adjusting? Of course, we wouldn’t want Matt to adjust his attitude or change anything up, which is why, on this week’s show, we’re talking about Disruption. Are we looking a

Is it time to start feeding our meat addiction with a new approach? It ends up in a pan. Why not grow it in one? Advances in biotechnology, sustainable planet initiatives and changing consumer demand are putting us on the cusp of a cultured meat and plant-sourced burger revolution. This is the case for clean, green, meat. Show Links: •https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/03/clean-meat-lab-grown-china-india •https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47724267 •https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4589744/cultured-beef-burger-public-tasting-mark-post-sergey-brin •https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ginkgo-bioworks-launches-motif-ingredients-with-90-million-series-a-financing-300802134.html •https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00011/full •https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/29/can-the-world-quench-chinas-bottomless-thirst-for-milk Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos