• The day the world almost ended

  • Feb 7 2021
  • Length: Less than 1 minute
  • Podcast

The day the world almost ended

  • Summary

  • In today's episode, we welcome Sean Cronin, church planter and personal trainer. He's a non-techie and a calm, cool, collected guy, so he's the antithesis of Marc. Thanks to this opposite perspective, he brings up a lot of great points that Marc wouldn't have thought of!


    In our first article, we explore the precise reasons why Kodak failed. Hint: It had to do with trying to quash the digital photography revolution rather than compete in it.


    How the monochrome Game Boy succeeded by being simpler than its more advanced color-screen rivals, and what we can learn from that.


    The reason why there's a surprising number of people still using dial-up Internet (and why these EXXTREEM broadband packages are useless).


    How and why Google uses algorithms to change the results of your searches, and the debate about whether they should control what 90% of the world sees, or let us decide for ourselves what we should and should not read.


    We discuss Apple's latest $1700 throwaway computer (shouldn't computers be repairable at that price?) and why it's less bad than other recent Apple machines.


    Finally... our last article focuses on 26 Sept 1983. The day a Soviet system detected incoming American nukes. Was it real, or was it a false alarm?

    It was up to one man to decide what to do. Listen to the incredible story of how cooler heads prevailed that day and the world was quite literally saved.


    Thanks to Nolan Derosia for the chill music. Thanks to Gotham Podcast Studio and Tandem Podcasts for hosting our show. Thanks to you for listening and telling your friends about the show!

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