APM's Future Tense
Future Tense is a daily program that chronicles the social impact of computers, the Internet, and technology in general. Future Tense is produced by American Public Media.
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Waiting is the fun part?
Here's a little slide show I prepared from outside the Apple Store in Roseville, MN this morning. It features an audio interview with Taylor Carrigan, a 16 year-old from Woodbury who was fourth in line for the new 3G...
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First in line for iPhone
John Hill of Hugo, MN and Eric Swanson of White Bear Lake, MN arrived at the Apple Store in Roseville, MN at 2:00 am today. They camped outside the Rosedale Mall until 5 :00 when the doors opened up....
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Should goverment tax buggy software?
Part 2 of our interview with David Rice, author of Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software
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Twitter limps along as competitors lurk
Tech journalist Dwight Silverman talks with Jon Gordon regarding Twitter's ongoing technical problems and whether the masses will defect.
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Your YouTube history at risk of exposure?
Kurt Opsahl with the Electronic Frontier Foundation talks with Jon Gordon about a judge's ruling forcing YouTube to hand over user data to Viacom.
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Laptops get sucked into black hole of U.S. airports
RealAudio - MP3 - iTunes Up to 12,000 laptops go missing at U.S. airports every week, according to a new report from the Ponemon Institute. What's unclear from the study is how many of those computers get reunited with their...
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Old, new media economies clash
news industry
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It's Windows XP, not Vista, inside Intel
RealAudio - MP3 - iTunes As the New York Times reported last week, Intel does not plan to upgrade its corporate computers to Windows Vista, the beleaguered operating system from Microsoft. Even though many analysts and online commentators see Intel's...
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Gates devoting more time to philanthropy
CNET News.com's Ina Fried talks to Jon Gordon about the future of Microsoft and Bill Gates now that Gates no longer works for the company full-time.
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Cars as wireless hotspots
Jon Gordon talks with an automotive industry analyst and a safety expert about Chrysler's plan to offer wireless Internet in 2009 cars and trucks.
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Online maps to get sharper images of earth
Matt O'Connell, CEO of GeoEye, talks with Jon Gordon about the launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide the sharpest image yet of our little blue dot.
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Tweets from Mars
The real person behind NASA's MarsPhoenix Twitter feed talks with Jon Gordon.
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I.T. administrators get snoopy
Cyber Ark U.K. chief Mark Fullbrook talks with Jon Gordon about a new survey showing abuse of admin passwords
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GM aims for driverless cars that don't crash
General Motors R&D chief Alan Taub talks with Jon Gordon about the future of driverless cars.
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Why women leave jobs in science, technology
Laura Sherbin of the Center for Work Life Policy talks with Jon Gordon about the exodus of women from science, engineering and tech.
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Origins of computer-generated music
RealAudio - MP3 - iTunes Computer historians have released what's believed to be the first recording of music generated by a computer. It's being made public as part of the 60th anniversary of "Baby," a forerunner of modern computers. A...
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An Internet traffic report
Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota professor and director of the Digital Technology Center, talks with Jon Gordon about Internet traffic and whether it will overwhelm the network.
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Moments Bill Gates will never forget
Dan Tynan talks with Jon Gordon about Dan's recent piece in PC World.
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Internet takes center stage in American politics
Pew Internet's Lee Rainie interviewed by Jon Gordon
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