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    Look Both Ways

    Look Both Ways

    Look Both Ways

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    Length:
    26 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Look Both Ways is a podcast about the unsung failures of the past and the unsolved challenges of the present. Stories are told. Experimentation is celebrated. Streets are safely crossed en route to new perspectives on what it means to get things wrong. 
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 26 episodes

    Title

    100 Year Leaps: The Analytical Engine & Quantum Computing

    Charles Babbage is famous for two things: He invented computers and he never built them...

    64 minutes
    		Mar 03, 2022

    People Machines: The Simulmatics Corporation & Algorithm Accountability

    Did we nearly have a 50 year head start on some of Big Tech’s stickiest ethical dilemma...

    63 minutes
    		Feb 08, 2022

    Play: Ancient Rubber Balls & Toy Design

    Charles Goodyear may have developed vulcanized rubber in 1839, but its origins are actu...

    38 minutes
    		Jan 12, 2022

    Community Memory & The Decentralized Web

    The first public computerized bulletin board system predates the world wide web by near...

    62 minutes
    		Dec 07, 2021

    Ben Franklin Zaps a Turkey

    For a special Thanksgiving bonus mini-episode, we drop by one of Benjamin Franklin's el...

    11 minutes
    		Nov 23, 2021

    George Washington Carver's Kitchen Experiments & Regenerative Agriculture

    Is remembering George Washington Carver as “The Peanut Man” misunderstanding his legacy...

    46 minutes
    		Nov 10, 2021

    Language: The Invented & The Endangered

    Humankind has a long history of trying and failing to "fix" language. What can Benjamin...

    74 minutes
    		Oct 26, 2021

    Nikola Tesla Revisited: Making Wireless Work

    Safely beaming electricity through the air is officially not science fiction. Back in A...

    20 minutes
    		Oct 12, 2021

    The Cincinnati Time Store & Bitcoin's Energy Problem

    As the debate about Bitcoin’s energy use rages on, what’s being lost in translation? Ar...

    53 minutes
    		Sep 21, 2021

    The Original EPCOT & Human-Centered Cities

    In the original plans for Disney World, EPCOT wasn’t a theme park at all. Join us as we...

    57 minutes
    		Aug 24, 2021