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Do you want to see into the future? Do you want to understand an invisible force that's shaping your life? Do you want to experience the frontiers of what makes us human?
I'm Oz Velocian, one of the new hosts of the long-running podcast Tech Stuff. I'm slightly skeptical, but obsessively intrigued. And I'm Cara Price, the other new host, and I'm ready to adopt early and often. Together, we'll travel all the way from the mines of Congo to the surface of Mars to the towers of SimCity to ask and attempt to answer burning questions about technology.
One of the kind of tricks for surviving Mars is to live there long enough so that people evolve into Martians. Like data is a very rough proxy for a complex reality. How is it possible that the world's new energy revolution can be based in this place where there's no electricity at night? I'll also be mining the depths of TikTok to find out what's really going on. And in our free time, we've got some pretty important guests lined up.
Jeffrey Hinton, who just won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on AI, and Meredith Whitaker, who led the walkouts at Google and now runs Signal, the encrypted messaging app.
We feel honored that Jonathan Strickland is passing us the mic on Tech Stuff, a show he's been presenting since podcasts with things you downloaded onto your computer and then transferred onto your iPod to listen to. Tech Stuff put out its first episode all the way back in 2008. Which is the same year Apple released the App Store and Google released Chrome and
and Facebook had just overtaken MySpace, and I had just graduated from high school. A lot can happen in a year in tech. And now we'll be here to dive into all the news and the stories behind the news with you. Together, Oz and I will cut through the noise to give you real-time perspective on how tech is changing our world.
and what you need to know to survive the inevitable singularity. So please check out the new Tech Stuff. Every Wednesday, we'll have a deep dive conversation with a different guest. And every Friday, we'll be doing a roundup of the Week in Tech. Listen to Tech Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.