March 28, 2009
The March 28 show looks directly at a media world being reshaped by the internet, with Dr. Dave and Evil Steve admitting that even informed predictions cannot make the future certain and later arguing that smaller online outlets will break up the old mass-media structure. Early Gmail Undo Send prompts a humane discussion about slowing down before sending an emotional message, while a caller's nuclear-submarine question produces one of the show's funniest safe-mode exchanges. Dr. Dave's technical curiosity appears in a 1999 handheld running FreeBSD and his hope that the Palm Pre could save a storied company, but his consulting principles remain practical: familiar interfaces matter, people should not be pushed into new products by fashion and every technology pitch deserves questions. A final caller ties those ideas to Office 2007, vinyl records and the pressure to adopt whatever is newest.
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Regular show: hour recordings
2 recordings · 117:46 total within this version.
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Regular show: segments
8 recordings · 95:10 total within this version.
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