Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Five-Minute IBM Hack That Became a Global Habit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Control-Alt-Delete was never meant for the public. In 1981 in Boca Raton, Florida, IBM engineer ...
8 Okt 20min
Bill Gates: How a Kid Who Hated Losing Built Microsoft and Remade Himself
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bill Gates has been two very different public figures: the desk-pounding monopolist of the 1990s...
8 Okt 22min
An Wang: The Forgotten Computer Billionaire Who Fired His Own Son
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1984, Dr. An Wang was the fifth richest person in America, worth about $1.6 billion and emplo...
8 Okt 21min
The Bangladesh Bank Heist: A Billion-Dollar Hack Undone by a Typo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 2016, hackers tried to steal roughly $1 billion from the central bank of Bangladesh ...
8 Okt 23min
The Martingale System: Why Doubling Your Bet Always Ends in Ruin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Double your bet after every loss, and the first win recovers everything plus a profit equal to y...
7 Okt 19min
The Dow Jones Industrial Average: Wall Street's Broken Thermometer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Every evening the news reports what the Dow did, as if it were a precise reading of the American...
7 Okt 20min
The Confederate Dollar: A Currency Backed Only by Winning the War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On Christmas Day 1864 in the American South, a turkey cost $155, a ham $300, a cake of soap $50,...
7 Okt 22min
The Gambler's Fallacy: 26 Blacks in a Row at Monte Carlo in 1913
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On August 18, 1913, a roulette wheel at the Monte Carlo Casino landed on black 26 consecutive ti...
7 Okt 21min
