The Transistor: The Tiny Switch Humanity Has Built 13 Sextillion Times
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The transistor is the most manufactured artifact in human history: by 2018, more than 13 sextill...
8 Okt 25min
The Transistor Radio: How Sony Put Rock and Roll in Your Pocket
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the transistor, a portable radio was a heavy box of hot, fragile vacuum tubes that needed...
8 Okt 19min
Tom Fulp and Newgrounds: The Founder Who Never Sold Out or Left
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1991, a 13-year-old Tom Fulp cut and pasted together a fanzine about the Neo Geo console call...
8 Okt 19min
The Pirate Bay: How a Raided Website Outlived Its Jailed Founders
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Pirate Bay began in late 2003 as a project of Piratbyrån, a Swedish anti-copyright think tan...
8 Okt 21min
Karlheinz Brandenburg: How the MP3 Escaped the Lab and Upended Music
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Around 1990, German researcher Karlheinz Brandenburg sat in a lab listening to Suzanne Vega's a ...
8 Okt 23min
Stuxnet: The Computer Worm That Wrecked Iran's Nuclear Centrifuges
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stuxnet was the first malware found to spy on and sabotage industrial control systems, and the f...
8 Okt 22min
Steve Wozniak: The Apple Co-Founder Who Chose Fun Over Fortune
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 1981, Steve Wozniak crashed a small plane shortly after takeoff from a California ai...
8 Okt 22min
Stephanie Kwolek: The Chemist Who Refused to Throw Away Kevlar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1964, DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek produced a polymer solution that looked like a failure....
8 Okt 21min
