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To be human in today’s world means that you engage in constant linguistic interactions with some form of technology, from your smart phone to your refrigerator. That’s not as new a trend as you might think. Language has shaped - and been shaped by - some of our world’s most significant communication technologies. Our current language bears the marks of millennia of interaction between humans and our technologies, beginning with the very first primitive writing systems and moving into the age of the printing press, the telegraph, and the typewriter.

Sunday Times best-selling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson, teams up with The Science Museum to celebrate the ideas and inventions of the incurably curious.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

In Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Of Minds and Machines, philosopher Patrick Grim traces the story of AI from ancient legends to the neural networks behind today’s breakthroughs. You see how modern systems became so powerful so quickly. You also explore the very meaning of “intelligence,” discovering how modern AI succeeds by drawing on three resources: vast datasets that let systems learn from examples; deep-learning architectures loosely modeled on the brain’s layers; and feedback loops that help models refine their behavior.

Digital technology definitely shapes us. But once we learn how it does so, we can make good decisions for our ourselves and our children.

Before the podcast and the smartphone, there was the cassette tape and the Walkman—two devices that, although not considered much today, were revolutionary. They were recordable, rewritable, spliceable, compact, and mobile. For the first time, they allowed you to move through the world and listen to a voice speaking only to you. These cassette tapes brought us together, pulled us apart, and forever changed how we say those three simple words, ‘I love you.’ In five episodes from around the world, Mixtape explores the impact the cassette had and continues to have today.

Where would we be without the humble toothbrush? What about a wine glass, a pair of high heels or the toilet? Comedian Katy Brand explores the extraordinary stories behind ordinary objects to help us appreciate the little things that make life so much more liveable. Did you know the first electric toothbrush was made in 1880? Or that the fork shaped British table manners and, to this day, influences the taste of the food? Or that our beds are a reflection of our attitudes to sleep, sex and status?

Douglas Rushkoff is widely considered to be one of most cutting-edge thinkers of our time. In his book Program or Be Programmed, Rushkoff asks the question: Do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? BetterListen! is delighted to make a available a talk Rushkoff gave on his fascinating new book.

2019年9月に開催されたAppleのスペシャルイベントについて、実際にサービスが始まった内容や、試すことが出来た製品の実機の話などを盛り込みつつ、お馴染の高木利弘氏と大谷和利氏が語り合います。

2018年12月10日に、インターネット商用化25周年&ダグラス・ エンゲルバートのThe Demo 50周年を記念して開催された、「IT25・ 50」シンポジウムの志を受け継ぎ、新しい時代のインターネットをあるべき姿を探求しその胎動の一助となることを願い、IT-Day2019を企画されました。

1998年にニフティサーブを運営するニフティ（株）の社長に就任し、富士通と日商岩井の共同出資会社から富士通100％子会社化へと変化する時期を経験された渡辺武経さんと、ニフティサーブのサービス開始当初からモータースポーツフォーラムのSysopを務めた漫画家のすがやみつるさんが、それぞれのFORUMに関わる経緯や、FORUMとニフティ（株）のかかわり合いや、FORUMに対する思いを熱く語り合って頂きました。

大谷和利氏と高木利弘氏が、この2018年に何を考えてこのようなイベントを行うに至ったか、今後は何やっていきたいのかについて語ります。

T2Vの開発元の株式会社プログマインド代表取締役の 濁川武郷氏にインタビューしています。

この高木利弘スペシャルインタビュー「GOROman VRの未来を語る」では、VRエバンジェリストとして活躍中のGOROman氏こと、近藤義仁さんに、VRの未来についてお聞きした。VRエバンジェリストGOROmanはどのようにして誕生したかや、そもそもVRって何なのかや、ペーパー・パラダイムから空間パラダイムへの転換の話など、今後の展望について語って頂きました。

テクノロジーライターの大谷和利氏と情報法制研究所理事長で新潟大学法学部教授の鈴木正朝氏が、漫画村などの「違法サイトのブロッキングはなぜ問題なのか？」ということについて、ずばり解説します。

Coming up: we try on Nike's self-lacing trainers, learn about the most common phobias, and play with a new product from Kodak.

2015年9月10日、Appleは、iPhone 6s、iPhone 6s Plus、iPad Pro などとともに新しいApple TVを発表しました。