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While parents worry about self-harming memes like Momo, are their own actions creating a generation of kids destined to self-destruct? Show Links: •https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132220-300-strange-rise-of-mukbang-parents-who-feed-their-kids-fast-food-for-cash/ •https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/29/apple-martin-tells-mother-gwyneth-paltrow-off-for-sharing-photo-without-consent •https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work •https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/01/would-you-take-a-pay-cut-to-get-a-better-job-title-its-not-as-stupid-as-it-sounds •https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132162-300-the-truth-about-generations-why-millennials-arent-special-snowflakes/ •https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/27/18241961/youtube-pedophile-ring-child-safety-advertisers-pulling-ads •https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/momo-challenge-hoax/583825/ •https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/20/us/youtube-fantastic-adventures-mo

The idea of wooden cars, homes, planes and skyscrapers used to be a Fred Flinstone fantasy. Now, with huge leaps in material technology, could wood be the miracle material of our future?

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-must-stop-fetishising-entrepreneurs Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies f

Is your technology working for you, or are you working for it? Why machines want us to prove that we are human. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9 Show Links: Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws. One of the reasons that this show exists is to demonstrate some of the many ways that technology is dramatically improving our lives. But what do you do when the technology that is supposed to be making our lives easier seems to be serving other masters? This sounds like another of those Game of Thrones inspired episodes. Are we back to your master and servant theme? •Indirectly, I guess. •This is another one of those episodes I’ve had sitting on the burner for a while. •And then the brouhaha about Facebook’s supposed pivot towards privacy broke cover last week and I thought it was time to tackle this one. Before we head into Facebook land again, do you want to give us a little background for tod

From the moment of conception to the time they die, the next generation of children may be tracked, monitored and surveilled every minute of every day. Produced by Jeff Sandhu Transcripts & more at www.kulturpop.com Episode Excerpt When I first saw that today’s show had Babies in the title, I assumed it had to be a joke. Matt Armitage is not known for being child friendly. In fact, I’m fairly sure that he thinks they should be farmed. Or grown in vats, like clean meat. But it would seem he’s genuinely worried about generations still to come. Matt. Data Babies and trackable humans. What’s going on? •You sound like one of those local TV news anchors in the US doing a hard hitting interview. •Mrs McGillicutty’s slipped on ice because no one salter her path. Here to answer our questions is city representative, Jeff Sandhu. Councillor, what’s going on? It really must be hurting you to devote an entire episode to children. •I prefer to think of them as boxed in adults. •In that you keep them in a box u

The Dream is fame, riches, untold power. Why do thousands of people dedicate years of their lives to making it, despite the tiny odds?

What would it be like if you cut Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google & Microsoft out of your life completely? We knew it would be a living hell and never had the nerve to do it. Kashmir Hill, a writer at Gizmodo did. We chat about her experiences and their implications for the world we live in. Show Links: https://gizmodo.com/c/goodbye-big-five https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/17/almost-impossible-to-function-without-big-five-tech-giants https://securitytrails.com Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws. What would your life look like if you cut the big five tech companies out of your life? Is it possible to live without using Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft or Apple at all? With a statement like that, you might think that MSP’s Matt Armitage has embarked on some kind of giant and heroic experiment. Well, sorry to disappoint you. He hasn’t. So, Matt, you want to talk abou

Utopia or Mattopia? We use today’s technology to create Matt’s perfect world of tomorrow. And introduce the term ‘bests of burden’. Excerpt: Then let’s start with money and finance as this is a business station. •I like your commitment to keeping this fun. Will money be digital? •Eventually, of course. But it won’t be the kind of digital currency we have now. •At the moment we have two major routes – the decentralised crypto currency route and the controlled, centralised currency, whether it’s physical or digital, like Sweden’s e-kronor. •We talked about some of the risks of independent crypto currency last week when we discussed Quadriga CX and the money that is stuck in an encrypted cold store. [Jeff ad libs reply] •So there’s a real need for forms of money that are instant, robust and safe. •At the moment, physical currency does that most successfully. •But as we’ve seen from the growing power and success of e-wallet technologies, the currency itself is becoming more invisible. •Most existing e-w

Welcome to MSP the Musical. It’s hard to think of the world without Facebook. MSP looks at the central role Facebook has assumed in the digital economy and wonders: can it last another 15 years? Episode Transcript These shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws. We’re celebrating a birthday this week. No, not mine or Matt’s or BFM’s. On Monday 4th February, Facebook turned 15 years old. Today MSP takes a look at the impact of that legacy. Hang on. It says here that today’s show is a Space Opera. Are you going to be singing? •You know how most musicals have two parts the speak-y part and the sing-y part. •I thought I’d do the speak-y part and you could sing the questions. I’m not singing. •But I’ve told the listeners it will be a Space Opera. •They’re expecting this to be our Mamma Mia or We Will Rock You •We’ve got CO2 cannons and pyrotechnics and everything. •Rich was going to run through the studio in one of those flame

Surveillance Capitalism is turning us all into robots. Don’t fear the machines: they are us. Show Links: •https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook •https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754 •https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshana-zuboff-secrets-of-surveillance-capitalism-14103616.html •https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge/ •https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/13/dont-believe-the-hype-media-are-selling-us-an-ai-fantasy Episode Excerpt On last week’s MSP, Matt Armitage thrilled us with a tale of swashbuckling misadventure and mis-spoken grammar. This week we’re heading further beyond the edge of sanity to ask: whose robot are you? Should we assume that this is another one of those shows talking about our entire existence being a computer simulation and that the creator of our Universe is actually a pre-teen working on a school computer proj

Make 2019 the year you take responsibility; stop caring and own it.

Want to know what happens in 2019? Future Matt looks to the past to tell us about the year to come

We don’t have to let the giants of tech own the future. Those decisions are still ours to make.

2018 was a year of stark contrasts in the tech industry. Will 2019 be the year we fight back against the power of the giants?

We discuss lots of topics on MSP. But all anyone wants to talk about is the sex robots. The second part of look back at 2018.

Since he adopted Wikipedia as his main memory source, Matt forgets most of the things he learns within 24. What exactly can he remember from the ride in a washing machine that was 2018? Show Notes: We’re coming to the end of another year, and it’s a tradition with MSP that we find out what Matt has learned over the last 12 months. One of the reasons we ask this, is that the list of things he has learned is usually a lot shorter than the ones he has learned. What have you learned this year? •The first thing I learned is that no one over the age of 25 should play futsal unless they have an ambulance on-call and very very good medical insurance. •The second thing I learned is that no one batted an eyelid when Richard and I played on-air badminton. oWhich suggests that they either have the people at home have a high level of trust that I will eventually make a the point, or that no one is listening. I had no idea that you and Rich played badminton, so I guess no one was listening. •Always there with a kind wo

Today’s show is about technology you can feel good about. We know. We didn’t believe it, either.

Has the Silicon Valley Bubble burst? Is the Age of Technology at an end? Yes and not a chance, argues Matt.

We’re taking a break this week, so here’s a bonus episode. And who better to talk about than Taylor Swift?

Recorded the day before the Facebook and Soros smear story broke, this Explainer shows how easy it is to build a smear campaign. About donuts. Episode Excerpt: Frequent friend of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg apologist, also known as Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage, is back on his Fake News mission this week. We’re never entirely sure whether he wants to stop it or spread. So, we’d better give him the chance to explain. •It’s a bit unfair to say I’m a Facebook apologist. •I’m more of a Facebook realist. •We talk about accountability a lot. So today I want to ask what should Facebook or any other technology company be responsible for? •Restocking our fridge? Well, Amazon seems to be on its way to that one. •Driving us to work? Uber and Google are working on those. •Looking after kids or elderly relatives? Companies like Samsung and Hitachi are building robots that should be able to take care of the unwanted. •Still there? Hello Yahoo. •Massive over-pricing and glitchy software? Apple’s got that one covered. Well