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Tech Stories is a technology podcast where a human and an AI explore innovation, entrepreneurship, startups, and the hidden systems shaping our world.
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We’ve Been Here Before. But This Time Its Different. (opens the original)
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Every generation thinks it is living through an unprecedented technological revolution. The steam engine changed work. Electricity changed daily life. Computers changed information. The internet changed how we communicate. Each breakthrough promised progress. Each one also created consequences almost nobody saw coming. And now AI has arrived. At first, the pattern looks familiar: excitement, fear, job disruption, enormous investment, promises of a better future. But there may be one crucial diff
The Untold Story of Humanoid Robots (opens the original)
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Why are we spending billions building robots with two arms, two legs, five fingers and a face—when the human body is far from the perfect machine? In this episode of Tech Stories , we trace the strange history of robots from Unimate, the first industrial robot working at General Motors, to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas and today’s race to put humanoids into factories, warehouses and eventually our homes. For decades, we redesigned factories around robots: fixed positions, predictable movements, safety
The Hidden Reason Everything Looks the Same (opens the original)
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Have you noticed it? Phones look alike. Websites feel familiar. Cafés in Berlin, Seoul and New York somehow share the same aesthetic. Companies use the same management systems, chase the same metrics and increasingly arrive at the same answers. We were promised infinite choice. So why does everything seem to be converging? In this episode of Tech Stories , we follow a strange trail from website templates and modular manufacturing to A/B testing, algorithms, outsourcing and corporate optimization
The Secret History of Ratings: How Stars Took Control of Our Lives (opens the original)
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Hi everyone, I am on summer vacation and plan to have a few weeks off from my podcast. In 3 Weeks I will be back with more exciting tech stories. Sorry for the lower audio quality on this one... recorded on the road. Make sure to follow the show to not miss the next one. See you in a few weeks! Every day, we trust ratings without thinking twice. Five stars. Hotel reviews. Google ratings. IMDb scores. Amazon reviews. Uber driver ratings. Credit scores. But where did this obsession with ranking ev
The Man Who Taught Products to Speak | The Story of Norman Woodland (opens the original)
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Every time you buy a coffee, board a flight, or receive a package, you're relying on an invention that most people never think about. But behind those familiar black-and-white lines is the remarkable story of one engineer whose simple idea quietly transformed the global economy. In this episode of Tech Stories , we follow the life of Norman Joseph Woodland—from his early curiosity and engineering education to the moment he sketched a revolutionary concept in the sand on a Miami beach. What began
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