What Next: TBD

A twice weekly podcast about tech, power, and the future.

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About the Show

Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.

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  • Lizzie O’Leary is the host of What Next: TBD, Slate’s show about technology, power, and the future. Previously, she created and hosted Marketplace Weekend. She has reported for CNN, Bloomberg News, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. She is also a contributing writer at the Atlantic.

North Korea’s Hacking Army

Can North Korea’s army of cyber-criminals be stopped?

How Buffalo Could Transform Social Media

Can the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism effectively moderate extremist content?

Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone

Can Truth Social survive without Trump?

Can A.I. Know What You’re Feeling?

A.I. that can read emotion is the next frontier in machine learning.

Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?

The framework we create now will define speech online for decades to come.

Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?

A conversation with a doctor providing abortion access via telemedicine.

The Fantasy of Internet for All

Starlink was supposed to revolutionize the global internet. Can it still meet its goal?

What Elon Wants With Twitter

The purchase of Twitter is almost across the line. Now what?

A New High-Tech Weapon in Ukraine

How is facial recognition technology is being deployed on the front lines in Ukraine?

The COVID Data Disaster

The CDC moved the goal posts on COVID-19. Can we still fight the pandemic without a clear picture of the data?

How TurboTax Tricks Taxpayers

The popular software is the product of a 20-year fight to make free tax filing nearly impossible.

Elonnnnnnnnnnnnn!

What does Elon Musk really want with Twitter?

Uber Makes Nice With Cabs

New York City taxis are headed to the Uber app.

Elon Trolls the SEC

The Tesla billionaire is now Twitter’s largest shareholder. Will he remake the platform in his image?

A Conversation With Europe’s Top Tech Cop

Margrethe Vestager just wants big tech companies to play by the same rules as everyone else.

The White House’s Favorite Tech Billionaire

Google’s Ex-CEO built considerable influence in Biden’s Office of Science and Technology. Did he cross the line?

The Cost of Going Off-Grid

Is there a downside to being entirely energy self-sufficient?

Why the Zelensky Deepfake Failed

Even low-quality deepfakes can have an enormous impact.

The Startup Delivering Adderall

What happens when you pair the Silicon Valley playbook with prescription drugs?

Hong Kong’s COVID Crisis

Why did the city fail to vaccinate its elderly population?