About Chris Baraniuk

NBN Episodes hosted by Chris:

David Wolman, "The End Of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers, and the Coming Cashless Society" (Da Capo Press, 2012)

June 8, 2012

The End Of Money

David Wolman
Hosted by Chris Baraniuk

Many of us in the western world don't rely on bills and coins as much as we used to, yet the idea of cash money is still an ever-present constant in o…

Mark Stephen Meadows, "We Robot: Skywalker's Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact" (Lyons Press, 2011)

July 6, 2011

We, Robot

Mark Stephen Meadows
Hosted by Chris Baraniuk

If technology is the site of digital culture, then robots are the future platforms of our social projections and interactions. In fact, that future is…

Brian Christian, "The Most Human Human: A Defense of Humanity in the Age of the Computer" (Penguin, 2011)

May 23, 2011

The Most Human Human

Brian Christian
Hosted by Chris Baraniuk

Can computers think? That was the question which provoked English mathematician Alan Turing to come up with what we call the Turing Test, in which a c…