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A podcast about the next revolutions in technology, seen through the eyes of serial entrepreneur Andrew Weinreich.
Further podcasts by Andrew Weinreich, serial entrepreneur & inventor of the world's first social network, sixdegrees
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Episode 16: How Homes Powered by Artificial Intelligence Will Know You and Take Care of You from 2018-02-08T09:00:30
For most of human history, we’ve accepted that keeping a home clean and filled with essentials is a burden that we must bear. But are we on the cusp of witnessing a technological revolution where o...
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Episode 15: Amazon, Walmart,&The Home That Shops for Itself from 2018-02-01T09:00
If you’re incredibly proficient at using your Amazon Echo, you might already being giving it directions to order more toilet paper or laundry detergent. But how long will it be before the home is c...
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Episode 14: Your Home’s Operating System&The Artificial Intelligence That Will Power It from 2018-01-25T09:00:16
Over the past few years, the public has mostly come to associate the voice activation capabilities of Amazon’s Echo and Google Home with smart speakers. But in fact these devices and others like th...
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Episode 13: Designing A Smart Lighting Plan: Voice Control, Presence Detection,&Light Switches from 2018-01-18T09:00:34
The most influential companies in lighting are reimagining one of the most fundamental features of our homes: the light switch. Will the smart home of the future understand our lighting needs witho...
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Episode 12: Honeywell vs. Nest: The Battle for the Smart Thermostat from 2018-01-11T09:00:55
While Nest wasn’t the first company to offer a smart thermostat, its first product quickly developed rock star status. Nest helped turn the thermostat -- a relatively forgettable device -- into a s...
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Episode 11: Searching Kickstarter for the Next Killer Smart Home Product from 2018-01-03T08:00:04
The David and Goliath story of startups entering an entrenched industry and disrupting its leading players isn’t a new one. Yet within the smart home space, an unlikely development has birthed a pa...
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Episode 10: Smart Homes&IoT: A Century in the Making from 2017-12-18T08:30:42
The idea of a home that can take care of its inhabitants has been around for over 100 years. But only in the last few decades have we seen technological breakthroughs that can make smart homes a re...
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Episode 9: Disinterested Voters&500,000 Elected Officials from 2017-06-19T07:00:08
In the United States, there are over 500,000 elected officials. In the overwhelming majority of elections, less than half of eligible voters participate, resulting in one of the lowest levels of vo...
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Episode 8: Hacking Elections, DDoS Attacks,&Online Voting Around the World from 2017-06-12T15:18:17
In a 2016 testimony addressing the House Committee on Space, Science&Technology, Dan Wallach warned that the country’s voting infrastructure was vulnerable to hacking by foreign governments. Comput...
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Episode 7: Can Online Voting Defeat the Broken Electoral College? from 2017-06-01T07:30:32
In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a little over a half of the voting age population cast their votes and the candidate who won the presidency lost the popular vote. Is the problem with low U....
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Episode 6: The Tesla of Homebuilding from 2017-04-12T07:30:36
Have we hit a tipping point for residential construction where the cost and quality of a factory-built home always compares favorably to the cost and quality of a conventionally-built home? Are Sil...
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Episode 5: Cars, Mars,&3D Printing from 2017-04-05T07:30:04
In 2012, six single-family homes were made by a 3D printer in China. The inventor of that technology is now working on a 3D printer designed to construct buildings on Mars. Does this technology hav...
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Episode 4: NYC Goes Modular from 2017-03-29T07:30:11
In the summer of 2016, the world’s tallest modular building at 32 stories high was completed at 461 Dean Street in Brooklyn, NY. Once the building’s apartment modules were completed at a factory lo...
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Episode 3: Google, China,&Overnight Cities from 2017-03-15T07:00:04
If a trillion dollar market opportunity exists, you can bet the people at Google are thinking about it. Within X, Google’s most secretive lab, they’ve been working on solving the problem of how to ...
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Episode 2: Half-priced Hamptons from 2017-03-08T08:00:28
Modern homebuilders have taken the art of prefabrication to new heights where they can construct entire rooms complete with insulation, plumbing, and electric wiring all within a factory. These roo...
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Episode 1: Home-in-a-box from 2017-02-27T14:00:48
Between 1908 and 1942, Sears sold 100,000 homes that were delivered in kits consisting of 12,000 pieces. While Sears is no longer in the business of making prefabricated homes, a number of technolo...
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Introducing Predicting Our Future from 2017-02-22T16:00:57
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could predict where the world was headed? What kind of company would you build or invest in if you could see what disruptions were coming next? ...
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