What the Tech 148: Sitting in the Dark with Strangers

The one where Andrew and Paul ponder their future in the Facebook walled garden

This week on What The Tech: Facebook announces Graph Search and Andrew and Paul discuss where Facebook and social networks go in 2013. Also, a discussion about the future of technology and whether the next big leap will come from hardware or software. Andrew and Paul also debate the future of Pay Per View and discuss why movie firms don't offer first run movies at home.

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Audible pick of the week: Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
UNABRIDGED by Evan Thomas, narrated by Brian Troxell

Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con, and generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end.

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Discuss this Article 1

Forrest
on Jan 18, 2013

The problem with the Cable Company is the same with the Movie Industry and the Music Industry. The content creators and the companies have a combined monopoly on their industry’s and don’t’ care if the customer is happy or not, you have no other choice. It takes a very large push from the customers and/or the market to get any changes. A good example, look at the music industry, how long it took them after Napster to get a reasonable system in place.
That’s why the software on DVR/Cable Boxs sucks.
That’s why Netflix doesn’t have 500,000 of the newest movies to choose from.
That’s why they only let us watch new movies in theaters then make us wait weeks before we can buy/rent the movie.
Some people pirate simply because of this, and would stop if these industries would let us buy what we want, where we want, when we want, and use it wherever we want.

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