Tech Reformation

People in Japan are using their cars in weird ways.

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People in Japan are renting cars but not driving them

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Hosts

• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Let's have some fun and talk about the craziest tech things we think will be real in the next 10–20 years.

Links

• Craig's Crazy Link

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• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
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Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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This week, we’re joined by listener Dr. David Lachut to talk about Facebook's new crypto(?)currency, Libra.

Links

• Quick Summary of Libra
• The Crazy Wall

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

E3 happened and you may soon be able to play Xbox on your Android tablet. But wait, why do you have an Android tablet anyway?
Links

• The game streaming dream was inside us all along
• Amazon WorkSpaces

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Apple's WWDC happened and Derek joins us to talk about it.

Links

• Apple WWDC 2018 keynote in 14 minutes
• Set To Learn (Derek's other podcast)

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
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Hosts

• Derek Mast
• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

As a general rule, when you jam tomatoes into machines, things happen to the tomatoes.

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Links

• Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
• Apple won't like this... - Run MacOS on ANY PC
• Commuter Cars
• Elio Motors
• Chick Tracts

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Blogs still exist, but are blog blogs dying? And is that bad?

Links

• Three Kinds of Blog (and the Future of Christian Blogging) - Tim Challies
• The Present and Future of Christian Blogging
• Lightest Form of Flogging – Episode 15: Full Weird Al

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Fridges are tracking you and it's not cool.

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• Now, Even the Freezer Aisle Is Tracking You
• Creeping on You in the Cold Drinks Aisle
• Youtube Video: Nudging: The Future of Advertising
• The article Tank Sorry, your data can still be identified even if it’s anonymized

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Mark Zuckerburg cares about your privacy, and jokes about it. Also what's privacy?

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Links

• Facebook is trying to make the word “private” meaningless
• Facebook pivots to what it wishes it was – TechCrunch

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

A browser built around ads?

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Links

• The Brave browser launches ads that reward users for viewing – TechCrunch
• xkcd: Mattresses
• The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

When is a bad deal ripping someone off, and is ripping people off wrong? This topic is Apple’s fault.

*Sponsor: Dwell App

Links

• Samsung X5 SSD
• Apple’s iMacs
• Helvetic Episode 02: It’s a Bad Widget

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Zuckerberg wants more government regulation. Wait, what?

*Sponsor: Dwell App

Links

• Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas.
• How Israel Folau went from NRL superstar to rugby outcast

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Amazon is paying tons of money on research to get you reading more. I wonder if clickbait like this would work.

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Links

• How to Pronounce Arduino
• The psychological tricks Amazon's Kindle plays on you
• Man Accidentally Performs Yoga Pose, Is Possessed By Horde Of Demons
• 135: Abstracting Parenting with Gamification

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

We discuss the Apple event, the various things announced at it, and then focus in on Apple's family friendly attitude and their forthcoming TV shows.

Links

• Summary of Apple Event (the Verge)
• Upgrade Podcast: The Future of TV Was Apps
• Accidental Tech Podcast: We Should Probably Get to the Apple Event

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Sponsor: Missional Wear - the gift shop for reformed theology enthusiasts!

Links

• Earth is (always has been) round, so why have the flat-out wrong become so lively?
• Logan Paul’s satirical flat Earth doc gets to the heart of YouTube’s recommendation issue
• Flat-Earthers' Cruise Will Sail to Antarctica 'Ice Wall' at the Planet's Edge. Right.
• America’s flat-Earth movement appears to be growing

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Weird shower cap things and hearing people through your arm. Also why Facebook wants to read your mind.

Sponsor: Valley Vintage - Soaps, balms and oils made the Vintage way.

Links

• Australia vs. America
• Texas vs. Australia
• Doc Brown's Weird Helmet Thing
• Weird Al: Mission Statement
• Cortex episode that David mentioned
• Our episode about China's social credit system

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Fortnight is a place, a really big place with lots of people. Is it the next social network?

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Links

• Fortnite isn't a game, it's a place | Charged Tech
• Fortnite isn’t addicting your kids — it’s just giving them what society won’t
  • Polite Fortnite Society
• 'Fortnite' Had 10 Million Concurrent Players In The Marshmello Concert Event

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

All the hosts this week are what you might call digital creatives, so we discuss the democratization of digital creativity.

Links

• Blender 2.8
• Procreate
• Scribus
• Greyscale Gorilla
• Inkscape
• Figma
• DaVinci Resolve
• Luma Fusion
• Affinity Photo
• Affinity Designer

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Joe Carter

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

This person does not exist and neither does this cat. But should we freak out?

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Links

• Can you guess which face is real, and which is computer generated?
• ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces
• Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video
• Will Altered Video Create a New Information War? | Technology
• Washington fears new threat from 'deepfake' videos

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• Craig Elliss
• Ryan Tankersley
• Joe Carter

Review us on Apple Podcasts and recommend us on Overcast, or even better - share Tech Reformation with a friend!

Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!

Are podcasts hurting preaching? Should sermon podcasts even exist? What would Jesus podcast? Plus, a special guest.

Sponsor: Valley Vintage - Soaps, balms and oils made the Vintage way.

Links

• Article: How Podcasts Hurt Preaching
• Referenced xkcd comic

Ways to Contact Us

• Chat with the listener community in Slack: slack.techreformation.com
• Visit our website to search for past shows and topics
• Shout out at us on Twitter at @techreformation!

Hosts

• David Mikucki
• Craig Elliss
• Ben Robin

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Music used by special permission of Matthew Parker. Check him out on SoundCloud and iTunes!