Tiny Estonia Beats the U.S. on E-Voting
The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia puts the United States to shame when it comes to electronic voting (not to mention marinated eel served cold and teaching little kids to code.)
4 Nov 20135min
Safety Nets: Broadband & Wifi in a Post-Sandy World
This week New Tech City looks at New York's internet connectivity a year after Sandy knocked out communications for so many New Yorkers.
30 Okt 201320min
Who Is Jeff Bezos? And What is Amazon?
He wants to find in a cheaper way to get to outer space. He’s building a clock that ticks once a year, moves its "century hand" once every hundred years and chimes once a millennium. Oh, and he’s al...
28 Okt 201310min
Coffee and E-Cigarettes
No heavy subject matter this week. Instead, we're diving into two subcultures that have been transformed by tech: Coffee and cigarettes. If you've never heard of a burr grinder or cartomizer, this pod...
23 Okt 201321min
Freelance Nation: “The Greatest Economic Transformation in Human History”?
More and more micro-entrepreneurs are using online services like Etsy, Kickstarter, Uber and Lyft to create their own jobs. Welcome to the new DIY economy.
16 Okt 201318min
When the FBI Knocks: A Techie’s Moment of Truth
The recent revelation that companies like Google and Facebook routinely hand over data about users' digital communications to the National Security Agency has many Americans wondering whether everythi...
9 Okt 201320min
How Twitter Created Connections But Drove the Founders Apart
As Twitter's lawyers prepare to take the company public, they aired some of the company's financial dirty laundry in a regulatory filing this week, confirming that the social media service continues t...
4 Okt 20133min
Mutated Code and the Amish Algorithm
Two groups of people that shy away from many technologies — Amish and Mennonites — are actually on the cutting edge when it comes to genetics.
2 Okt 201316min
