Podcasts by DDK Pod

DDK Pod Episode 032: The Energy Storage Conundrum from 2023-05-30T09:58:47

DDK Pod Episode 032: The Energy Storage Conundrum.  New and efficient ways to store and release energy are a requirement if we are ever going to decarbonise our world and halt climate change.  T...

031 Space! Part 3: The Future of IT in Space from 2023-04-10T20:33:38

DDK Pod Episode 031 Space! Part 3: The Future of IT in Space. Space, the final…yeah let’s not do that.  Star Trek did have a point though.  Just what will we find out there in space?  Space is a...

030 Space! Part 2: The Environmental Impact of Technology in Space. from 2023-02-21T08:00:45

DDK Pod Episode 30 Space! Part 2: The Environmental Impact of Technology in Space.  The more we go into space and take things with us, from satellites to space stations, the more human detritus ...

029 Space! Part 1: Current Use Cases for Space from 2023-01-23T12:47:34

029 Space! Part 1: Current Use Cases for Space

DDK Pod Episode 29 Space! Part 1: Current Use Cases for Space.  Space is cheap now.  That’s a little flippant, but it’s becoming increasingly...

028 Is Effective Business Change Possible When Working Remotely? from 2022-11-28T20:27:09

DDK Pod Episode 28. Is Effective Business Change Possible When Working Remotely?  The Covid pandemic may not be in full swing in quite the same way anymore, but many of us are still working eith...

027 Personalised Medicine from 2022-10-11T07:29

DDK Pod Episode 27. Personalised Medicine.  We increasingly live in a world where technology is enabling concepts such as individually tailored medical treatments to become reality.  The balance...

026 Right to Repair from 2022-06-30T07:39:27

DDK Pod Episode 26 Right to Repair.  Old devices which cannot be upgraded or repaired are difficult to recycle into new devices, and often just get dumped instead.  Items such as laptops, phone ...

025 Cyber Warfare and Propaganda from 2022-05-16T13:00:09

DDK Pod Episode 25 Cyber Warfare and Propaganda.  With events in Ukraine spiralling into truly miserable territory, we decided to cover an important and heavily related topic this month.  Propag...

024 High Performance Computing from 2022-04-20T11:46:37

DDK Pod Episode 24 High Performance Computing.  Genuine High Performance is cool.  Often words like ‘High performance’ get thrown around by marketing departments, but within IT there is a pretty...

023 The Metaverse – Do we care? from 2022-03-14T21:03:41

DDK Pod Episode 23 The Metaverse – Do we care?  The Metaverse as a term is becoming increasingly hard to define.  Facebook recently rebranded their parent company to ‘Meta’, muddying the waters ...

022 Technology and Loss from 2022-02-21T11:38:56

DDK Pod Episode 22 – Technology and Loss. Everything we do leaves a digital trace.  Our social media presence becomes a timeline of our life, a digital reminder, permanently etched into the fabr...

021 The Great Facebook Outage from 2022-01-17T09:36:09

DDK Pod Episode 21 – The Great Facebook Outage. Facebook had a bit of a blip recently.  And by ‘a bit of a blip’ we mean ‘an enormous global outage which quite literally knocked the entirety of ...

020 Sandwiches and Blockchain from 2021-12-13T11:29:13

DDK Pod Episode 20 – Sandwiches and Blockchain.  Ever wondered how you can tell where the ingredients in the things you use, eat or otherwise consume come from?  The answer is you usually can’t....

019 Management Jargon from 2021-11-08T10:05:23

DDK Pod Episode 19 – Management Jargon.  Love it or hate it, management jargon in the IT industry is probably here to stay.  But does it help?  Is it a route to greater productivity, or an imped...

018 Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality – fad or future? from 2021-10-05T09:00:14

DDK Pod Episode 18 – Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality – fad or future?  Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are popping up more and more in the world around us. The systems we u...

017 Cryptocurrency - here to stay? from 2021-09-03T13:32:09

DDK Pod Episode 17 - Cryptocurrency - here to stay? – Cryptocurrency is big news.  From Elon Musk’s tweets changing the value of Tesla by eyewatering amounts, to stories of lost hard drives full...

016 Over the Horizon? - The UK Post Office Sub-Postmaster Scandal from 2021-08-02T09:00:34

DDK Pod Episode 16 – Over the Horizon? - The UK Post Office Sub-Postmaster Scandal.  This week, we take a look at a very prominent IT related news story here in the UK.  The Horizon system, deve...

015 Game Theory from 2021-06-29T09:17:49

DDK Pod Episode 15 – Game Theory. Game Theory is a fascinating thought experiment which is frequently used in the implementation of technology.  In fact, it is game theory which (through GAN) un...

014 Deep Fakes: What are they really and why should we care? from 2021-05-26T13:48:14

DDK Pod Episode 14 – Deep Fakes: What are they really and why should we care? This month we discuss the rapidly advancing technology of Deep Fakes.  Deep Faking is an often misunderstood concept...

013 Quantum Computing: Weird but Wonderful from 2021-04-22T10:19:11

DDK Pod Episode 13 – Quantum Computing: Weird but Wonderful. This week we discuss the mind bending world of Quantum Computing.  Join us on a (pretty nerdy) discussion of things like Qbits, Super...

012 Porn and Technology: ‘The Butterfly Effect’ by Jon Ronson. from 2021-03-23T21:56:14

DDK Pod Episode 12 – Porn and Technology: ‘The Butterfly Effect’ by Jon Ronson. This week we discuss a fascinating story - the impact one man, Fabian Thylmann, had on the porn industry in the ea...

011 Online Learning – The death of school and university as we know it? from 2021-03-13T21:09:10

DDK Pod Episode 11 – Online Learning – The death of school and university as we know it? This week we discuss the growth of online learning and the pros and cons of it being an alternative to fo...

010 The Measurable Benefits of Technology from 2021-02-23T20:35:04

DDK Pod Episode 10 – The Measurable Benefits of Technology. This week we discuss the example of the London Ambulance Service and their Computer Aided Dispatch system.  This system has revolution...

009 Humane Technology from 2021-01-27T17:00:26

DDK Pod Episode 9 – Humane Technology. This week we discuss the efforts of one Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google and now President and a Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Techno...

008 The Tobacco Playbook from 2020-12-24T23:17:56

DDK Pod Episode 8 – Merry Christmas one and all.  It’s DDK Pod! The gift that everyone wants to find under the tree this year. This week we talk about the Tobacco industry playbook (sometimes ca...

007 Ethics in Technology 3/3: Ethics in technology supply chains – Is it possible to be ‘good’ in the modern world? from 2020-12-09T21:04:02

DDK Pod Episode 7 – This week we come to the final part of our three-part series on Ethics in the IT industry and discuss the ethics of technology supply chains.  We all need to consume technolo...

006 Ethics in Technology 2/3: Ethical trading and Retail - How to determine the ethical footprint of what we consume. from 2020-11-16T09:45:51

DDK Pod Episode 6 – This week (slightly later than planned – apologies!) we continue our three-part series on Ethics in the IT industry and discuss the ethics of consuming tech in the modern wor...

005 Ethics in Technology 1/3: How to build an ethical IT company from 2020-10-23T21:36:43

DDK Pod Episode 5 – This week we kick off a three-part series on Ethics in the IT industry and discuss the ethics of common working practices in tech companies.  ‘Crunch’ has become synonymous w...

004 ‘The Five Levels of Remote Work — and why you’re probably at Level 2’ by Steve Glaveski from 2020-10-05T21:28

DDK Pod Episode 4 – This week we discuss ‘The Five Levels of Remote Work — and why you’re probably at Level 2’ by Steve Glaveski of medium.com.  The Covid-19 pandemic has made working from home ...

003 Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry from 2020-09-21T20:10:23

DDK Pod Episode 3 – Continuing the topic of algorithms and their use in the modern world from the previous episode, we discuss ‘Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine’ by Hannah ...

002 The UK A-Levels fiasco: was it right to use an algorithm and where did it all go wrong? from 2020-09-02T21:43:19

DDK Pod Episode 2 - We discuss the recent A-Levels fiasco in the UK and examine the use of an algorithm to determine student's grades.  Was it right to use one?  How could proper IT engineering ...

001 Can Assertiveness Make You A Great Leader? from 2020-08-13T17:45:03

DDK Pod Episode 1 - We discuss the article "Finding My Fighting Wo...