Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? Note to Self explores these and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy and many others. © WNYC Studios
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 4 hours 25 minutes
episode 65: These Games Could Be Good for Young Brains
Games have power, so this week, we play a few that can motivate kids to learn more, whether they realize it or not. And we see how a test case of a new technology for football might help keep young heads safer (and smarter) from injury.
episode 64: A Civic Call for NYC Techies: Bring Digital Talent into Public School Classrooms
Andrew Rasiej, chairman of NY Tech Meetup, argues that tech talent can do more for kids and New York's tech sector, if talented programmers get more involved in the classroom.
episode 63: Programming Families: How Kids are Like Software, and What the Government Could Learn From It
Coders have a very specific way of working, it’s called Agile. One family decided to apply it to their lives. What if healthcare.gov had too?
episode 62: Tiny Estonia Beats the U.S. on E-Voting
The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia puts the United States to shame when it comes to electronic voting (not to mention marinated eel served cold and teaching little kids to code.)
episode 61: Safety Nets: Broadband & Wifi in a Post-Sandy World
This week New Tech City looks at New York's internet connectivity a year after Sandy knocked out communications for so many New Yorkers.
episode 60: Who Is Jeff Bezos? And What is Amazon?
He wants to find in a cheaper way to get to outer space. He’s building a clock that ticks once a year, moves its "century hand" once every hundred years and chimes once a millennium. Oh, and he’s also the CEO of the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon. He is Jeff Bezos.
episode 59: Coffee and E-Cigarettes
No heavy subject matter this week. Instead, we're diving into two subcultures that have been transformed by tech: Coffee and cigarettes. If you've never heard of a burr grinder or cartomizer, this podcast is for you.
episode 58: Freelance Nation: “The Greatest Economic Transformation in Human History”?
More and more micro-entrepreneurs are using online services like Etsy, Kickstarter, Uber and Lyft to create their own jobs. Welcome to the new DIY economy.
episode 57: When the FBI Knocks: A Techie’s Moment of Truth
The recent revelation that companies like Google and Facebook routinely hand over data about users' digital communications to the National Security Agency has many Americans wondering whether everything they do online is being tracked by the government.
episode 56: How Twitter Created Connections But Drove the Founders Apart
As Twitter's lawyers prepare to take the company public, they aired some of the company's financial dirty laundry in a regulatory filing this week, confirming that the social media service continues to lose money.