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S1E3: Fork Fashions and Toilet Trends

The Secret History of the Future by Slate

Sep 19, 201827:28Technology

It took a long time for the fork to go from weird curiosity to ubiquitous tool. How long will it take for current technologies -- like the Japanese-style bidet toilet, or heads-up displays such as Google Glass -- to go f...

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S1E3: Fork Fashions and Toilet Trends is an episode from The Secret History of the Future by Slate. It took a long time for the fork to go from weird curiosity to ubiquitous tool. How long will it take for current technologies -- like the J...

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It took a long time for the fork to go from weird curiosity to ubiquitous tool. How long will it take for current technologies -- like the Japanese-style bidet toilet, or heads-up displays such as Google Glass -- to go from oddities to everyday necessities? Guests include: Astro Teller, Google’s Captain of Moonshots; Margaret Visser, author of The Rituals of Dinner . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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