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Building Tomorrow explores the ways technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship are creating a freer, wealthier, and more peaceful world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out infor...
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Your home is full of technological miracles, devices that your ancestors would have regarded as near magic because of the life of relative e...
If you're the kind of person who carefully sorts out your recyclables from your trash, cleans it, and puts it out in the blue bin for pickup...
People are afraid. Afraid that they are consuming too much, emitting too much, having too many kids, and running the planet into the ground....
What happens when a raw material that is valueless suddenly becomes valuable? If it's bird guano in the 19th century, you mine it and save t...
The Building Tomorrow podcast is back in a new format. This season we will be focusing on wanting more. The desire for more embraces a prosp...
We have a special announcement about the future of Building Tomorrow. Stay tuned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
If voting leaves you feeling tired and vaguely dissatisfied, you're not alone. Over 60% of voters aren't happy with the two party duopoly th...
There are some things that even a pandemic cannot stop. One of those things is political pressure to "do something" about Big Tech. Paul che...
In the 18th century, something sparked a wave of technological innovation and economic growth that has transformed the world for the better....
Spend any time on social media and odds are that you've interacted with at least one bot account; given how advanced they've become, you mig...
It's time to stop politely asking the State to give us our freedoms back. We can just...take them. New technologies like smart contracts, cr...
There's growing, bi-partisan support for government regulation of the internet. The Left wants to censor hate speech while the Right wants t...
Guess what's bad for innovation? Telling the brightest minds in the world that you don't want them to come work with you. As obvious as that...
If you’re listening to this show, you’re likely an ardent supporter of the First Amendment. Yet at the same time, you probably wouldn’t want...
New York City's population dropped by 5% in just two weeks because of COVID-19, a drop concentrated among white collar professionals and Wal...
Have you wondered whether a particular public health intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic has actually been worth it? Perhaps you then...
A generation before the rise of talk radio and hosts like Rush Limbaugh, there was another wave of right-wing radio. But the reason why few...
While universities debate whether to re-open on schedule for the fall semester, it’s expected that hundreds of colleges that were in financi...
Because of the COVID-19 shutdown, tens of millions of American households have suddenly been forced to do school at home. Education policy e...
Complaints about the control that social media companies exercise over their platforms has risen over the past couple of years. Some users c...
Matt Ridley joins the show today to talk about his new book, How Innovation Works . He argues that innovation is the defining feature of the...
Technologist Alec Stapp joins the show to discuss why the US lagged weeks behind South Korea in testing for COVID-19. While the failures of...
Stop me if you’ve ever heard some version of the following argument: government mandates and funding gave us the __________ [insert: space s...
If you watched the 2018 blockbuster Black Panther , then you’ve encountered a genre known as Afro-Futurism, in which predominately African-A...
It’s easy to assume that things naturally improve. After all, in our lifetimes technology has advanced, life expectancies have risen, and st...
While fans of the show Silicon Valley might not have much regard for the role of venture capital in technological innovation, the reality is...
Most Americans have some idea that our university system, as expensive as it is, is still the envy of the world and a source of science and...
This is the first of a three part series looking at the origins of Silicon Valley and how it became synonymous with technological innovation...
As the cultural economy (music, movies, television, and books) digitized around the turn of the 21st century, many critics worried about sev...
Most Americans, including working class Americans, could retire millionaires…if we fixed Social Security. Instead, we are facing a financial...
If a bear eats a burger in the woods and doesn’t realize it’s not from a cow, does it care? Until bears evolve the ability to communicate, I...
The world is rapidly aging and, since people have fewer kids, that means we are facing an eldercare crisis. People will live longer, but hav...
If you had to choose one technology that has done the most to transform peoples’ lives for the better in the past forty years, you could mak...
Matthew Feeney and Peter Van Doren interview Hal Varian about his professional experience starting with his economics column at the New York...
How did Limbaugh change the radio business? How did the conservative opinion media come to be? Who were the left-wing talk radio hosts while...
People may not really know what artificial intelligence is but they are convinced that it will either utterly destroy humankind or lead us i...
Cryptocurrency is, ultimately, science fiction. That isn’t an insult. It is science fiction in the sense that decades before you could set u...
The recent shootings in El Paso and Gilroy are a reminder of the power of the internet to build communities for niche interests, from vampir...
If you, as a private citizen, want to build a bridge across the river to shorten your commute, you run into a few problems. The incredible c...
One of the most remarkable aspects of the last few generations is that for the first time in human history, at least to this degree, stuff h...
As the threat of government regulation of the internet mounts from both the political Left and Right, Paul and Matthew sit down to talk abou...
Parenting is a wonderful, terrifying, joyful, horrible, lovely thing. And one of the more annoying aspects is the firehose-worth deluge of i...
Facebook and a coalition of major tech and financial companies are planning on creating a new crypto-currency called Libra that promises to...
As recent scandals on social media platforms have shown, content moderation is hard, thankless work. The lines between political satire, hat...
It is an accident of history that so many tech and social media companies are based in the United States. For example, Facebook has several...
HBO’s show about the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster is the highest rated show on IMDB of all time in part because of its ability to make o...
More than 48 billion robocalls bombard American phones each year, taking the ‘phone’ out of ‘smartphone’ for many consumers. Yet while the p...
How will people respond to artificial intelligence taking their jobs? The rise of political radicalism on both Left and Right in the early t...
The gig economy is transforming cities. Companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit are hiring thousands of workers on a contract basi...