DigitalCulture.LA
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDigitalCulture.LA is reporting to you on the future. Airing on 90.7 FM KPFK Los Angeles on Wednesday at 7:30PM.
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We've Moved!
January 01, 2020 07:00Digital Village is the oldest running technology radio show in Los Angeles. Rebooted in 2020, it brings new voices to the airwaves covering topics like advancements in AI and Biotech, as well as special segments on technology with A View from the Outside and new publications like, The New Modality.
Biobot: Using Human Waste to Tackle Epidemics
April 03, 2019 07:00Everybody goes to the bathroom, everyday. It turns out there is a lot of useful information in our collective waste (urine specifically). From it we can measure things like drug use and even food consumption. Dr. Mariana Matus co-founder and CEO of Biobot Analytics, is starting to work with public health officials to see what is actually happening with the population, starting with the opioid epidemic. You can follow them on twitter @BiobotAnalytics.
City Grows: The Quest to Modernize Local Government
March 27, 2019 07:00The government is slow… when interacting with local governments it can feel like you’re using technology that’s outdated 10 years. My guest this week, is Catherine Geanuracos, CEO and co-founder of City Grows who is helping local governments modernize.
WEDEW: A Rainforest In A Box
January 30, 2019 07:00David Hertz is an architect and founder of Skysource the winner of Water Abundance X-Prize, was able to create water from air using 100% renewable energy sources, for under 2 cents per liter. They started with Skywater, which was able to take water out of the air, but it required humidity - what they won the prize for was WEDEW (wood-to-energy deployable emergency water), which is essentially a rainforest in a box.
CES 2019
January 16, 2019 07:00Oh CES 2019, there’s so much to see. From suitcases that follow you, robots that bring you your order or ones that look like sharks and film underwater, so much surveillance tech, lots of massage chairs, chocolate printing pens, fetus cameras… it goes on and on. I caught up with a few exhibitors there including a foldable phone, a breadbot, snoring masks, pain management devices, and much more.
Welcoming More Scientists to Public Office
December 19, 2018 07:00It has been a big year for 314 Action, we spoke with Shaugnessy Naughton, Founder and CEO, about some of the scietists coming into office in 2019.
InSight Lands on Mars!
November 28, 2018 07:00InSight , INterior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport, launched on May 5th, 2018 and on Monday, November 26, 2018, NASA-JPL successfully landed InSight on the Elysium Planitia on Mars. The lander, because it won't be moving, has a lot of unique science it will be doing. I spoke with Emily Lakdawalla , the senior editor and planetary evangelist for the Planetary Society about the science and what we hope to uncover about Mars.
Some Awful AI with David Dao
November 14, 2018 07:00AI some people think it will save us, others think it will be our downfall. Science fiction has mixed feelings. One thing is for sure, we should all be paying attention to developments in AI, and what that means for us. My guest this week is David Dao, a researcher and PhD student at ETH Zurich & UC Berkeley. David created a Github repository called Awful AI, to help raise awareness. Awful AI is a curated list that tracks some concerning uses of AI around privacy, things like predictive po...
3D Printing Organs with Prellis Biologics
November 07, 2018 07:00We have been talking about 3D printing organs for awhile, but not all organs are created equal. An ear, is easy to print, in comparison to more complex organs, like a kidney or a heart - that’s when it gets a lot harder. Capillaries are really small. They form a network throughout the body for the exchange of oxygen, metabolic waste products, and carbon dioxide between blood and tissue cells. Figuring out how to print capillari es is one of the major roadblocks to 3D printing more complicat...
Lydia Laurenson On Being Clarice Thorn
September 26, 2018 07:00My guest this week is Lydia Laurenson, who works in digital media and media related technology. Lydia has previously written a lot about sexuality, BDSM, and gender under the pseudonym Clarice Thorn. She recently came out of the closet and connected her two identities. We talk about the blogosphere back in 2006-2007, keeping anonymity online, free-speech on the internet and what legislation like SESTA FOSTA can (and is already doing). You can find out more about Lydia's latest project, Alte...
SlamDance DIG: The Island of Misfit Art
September 05, 2018 07:00I am co-interviewing with Ric Allen of Digital Village. Our guest is Dekker Dreyer, co-curator of SlamDance DIG and we talk about all the great digital/interactive/gaming art they have showcased in Downtown LA September 13-15.
Entering Two Bit Circus
August 29, 2018 07:00I love games… from board to video - to competitive to cooperative. My guest this week is friend of the show Brent Bushnell, CEO and co-founder of Two Bit Circus, when we spoke to him last they were launching STEAM Carnivals in LA and SF, but now they are doing something a bit more permanent in the center of Los Angeles: Two Bit Circus, a Micro Amusement park. There’s classic carnival games, Story Rooms, a VR Arena, pinball, group games… and so much more. We talk about what a microamsuement...
IndieBio: Bringing Entrepreneurship to Scientists
August 22, 2018 07:00There is a lot of excitement in the world of biology, but biology and biotech startups are hard and expensive. You need a lab, equipment, and highly specialized knowledge. The barrier to entry is much higher than say… building an app. My guest this week is Dr. Jun Axup, scientific director and partner at IndieBio, who are working to change that and help scientists bring their research to market. I spoke w Jun about IndieBio, some amazing companies that have gone through the program, trends ...
Guest Host: Analise Roland with Jason Hardjosoekatmo on the Power of Cloud Computing
July 11, 2018 07:00Will the Cloud Save us? Cumulous nimbus has nothing on dispersed computing systems. One company in London has decided it's time to leverage exponential technologies to make simulation of complex systems common place (while also addressing humanity's most pressing needs). No big deal.. just big data. Join us as we speak with co-founder Jason Hardjosoekatmo as we explore how dispersed networks of cloud computing is finally allowing us to model cancer cell replication, predict rocket launches...
Lost Spirits: The Future of Distilling
April 04, 2018 07:00Today we’re going to talk about alcohol, more specifically distilling spirits like rum and whiskey. Most award winning whiskey and rum are aged in barrels of different types of wood, for many years, but what if there was a way to create the same effect, in a fraction of the time. At Lost Spirits they have figured out how to do just that. Nestled in Downtown LA they are creating new types of booze and even resurrecting lost ones and the process takes… 6 days (more on that later). Not only are...
Augmenting Alice with Galit Ariel
March 28, 2018 07:00We’ve talked a lot about VR on this show, and there are a lot of great experiences out there. From Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Carne y Arena at LACMA, which puts you in the shoes of an immigrant crossing the border into the united states, to The VOIDs hyper-reality experience Star Wars Secrets of the Empire, where you and three other people move through a virutal world as undercover agents to retrieve information critical to the Rebel Alliance. VR has a lot of potential, but what about VR’s less...
314 Action: Bringing Scientists to Public Office
March 14, 2018 07:00The March for Science was just under a year ago and one of the big things that came out of that march was that more scientifically trained individuals should run for office. If politicians aren’t going to understand science, let’s bring scientists to Washington. 314 Action (yea, you guessed it, it’s named after pi), was founded in 2016 before the election, by Shaugnessy Naughton whose goal is to help bring scientists to public office. We talk about bringing scientists to office, their fight...
Brave: Helping Protect Your Privacy & Fund Content Online
January 31, 2018 07:00Spend a few minutes online - and it’s hard to not notice the ads all around you - even if you’re using an adblocker. Many websites you go to are in some way funded by advertising dollars. Over the years these ads have become more and more invasive, both on the screen and to our privacy. They even slow down the sites we visit - they can take up to 50% of page load times. There are cookies trying to build a profile on you and trackers that follow your habits - enter Brave. Brave is an interne...
Dan Kaminsky On Meltdown & Spectre
January 10, 2018 07:00 - 21 minutesShortly after New Years we were hit with two security flaws that affect microprocessors called Meltdown and Spectre. These hardware flaws allow programs to steal data being processed on a computer. Both have both been around for quite some time and it’s unclear to what extent they have already been exploited. Desktop, laptop, and cloud computers may be affected by Meltdown, as for Spectre, it’s all of the above, and mobile. My guest this week is Dan Kaminsky, Chief Scientist at White Ops, a...
The Fight for Net Neutrality
November 29, 2017 07:00 - 10 minutesRight now the FCC is considering a proposal to roll back the net neutrality protections in the Open Internet Order, thereby allowing ISPs, the gatekeepers of the internet, to effectively control what you have access to and how quickly. The FCC, led by chairman Ajit Pai, released the final draft of their plan named "Restoring Internet Freedom," which would reverse a 2015 ruling that classifies ISPs as if they were telecommunication services and instead have them be classified as information s...
Manufacturing: MAKE IT IN LA
November 08, 2017 07:00 - 13 minutesMy guest this week is MAKE IT IN LA and the host of the Art of Manufacturing podcast Krisztina "Z" Holly, who is trying to help makers become manufacturers. I spoke with Z about LA manufacturing, the fear of automation, and what it takes to MAKE IT IN LA.