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Implausipod
Art, Technology, Gaming, and PopCulture
Episodes
62 episodes
E0035 The Nostalgia Curve
The box office for the summer of 2024 has been driven by titles relying heavily on the audiences nostalgia, with titles like Deadpool and Wolverine and Alien: Romulus leading the charge. But nostalgia as a driver for the movies isn't new,...
E0034 Dial-up Pastorale
What is behind the recent trend seeking a wistful return to a more idyllic age of the internet, real or imagined? We'll call this the Dial-up Pastorale. The trend became apparent in a number of papers and blog-posts that have popped over the la...
E0033 TikTok Tribulations
What happens if your community disappears? How do online groups deal with the challenges of maintaining their social ties across fickle and fleeting platforms? And are there lessons to be learned by the TikTok creators from the online MMO commu...
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E0032 Baked In: Social Media and Tech Determinism
How much of your experience online is dictated by the environment you're in, and how it was constructed? What is you rebuild Twitter, and it still ends up being toxic? Did you fail, or succeed without knowing it?These are th...
E0031 GPT Squared
Are the new GPTs - Generative Pre-trained Transformers - powering the current wave of AI tools actually the emergence of a new GPT - General Purpose Technology - that we will soon find embedded into every aspect of our lives? Earlier examples o...
E0030 Appendix W 04 - Dune
With the release of Dune part 2 in cinemas, we return to Appendix W with a look at Frank Herbert's original novel from 1965. Dune has had a massive influence on the Warhammer 40000 universe in many ways, especially when looking at the ori...
E0029 Why is it always a War on Robots?
Why does it always come down to a Butlerian Jihad, a War on Robots, when we imagine a future for humanity. Why does nearly every science fiction series, including Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer 40K, Doctor Who, The Matrix, Terminator and...
E0028 Black Boxes and AI
How does your technology work? Do you have a deep understanding of the tech, or is it effectively a "black box"? And does this even matter? We do a deep dive into the history of the black box, how it's understood when it comes to science ...
E0027 The Old Man and The River
The parable of the Old Man and the River tells us it isn't now deep the water is, but how swift the water flows when it comes to looking at pop culture. There's magic in how crystal clear those swift waters flow. Join us for a revi...
Implausipod E0026 - Silicon Dreams
Silicon Dreams are those glittering visions of mythic intensity that inspire the continued development of revolutionary technologies. Listen to this episode of the Implausipod to learn more about where they come from, and how the mythic i...
Implausipod E0025 - Echanger
Echanger - a French verb meaning to trade, to replace, or to swap, is a metaprocess of translation, that covers three main factors contributing to technological unemployment - automation, virtualization, and agentrificati...
E0024 The 15th Doctor - Xmas 2023
In our final episode on the 2023 Dr Who specials, we take a look at the 2023 Christmas Special and the introduction of the 15th Doctor as played by Ncuti Gatwa. We'll take a quick take at some of the larger themes of the show, and how it ...
Grats 2023
Not quite a full Festivus message, just a few quick tidings of joy and a message of gratitude here as 2023 draws to a close. All the best to you and your loved ones, and we'll chat again soon.
Implausipod E0023 - The Giggles
Join us for the final of our three episodes on the 2023 Season of Specials for Dr Who, with the return of familiar nemesis (both within the show and to yours truly as well) and the introduction of the 15th Doctor through an unique turn of event...
Implausipod E0022 - Wild Blue Yonder
While I can't say I'm a sci-fi fan who hasn't scene Doctor Who any longer, my experience is still on the lower end of the scale, so we'll bring back our friend and guest Dr Aiden Buckland an academic and Dr Who fan to help guide us through some...
Implausipod E0021 - Postcard From Earth
We continue with part two of our three part look at The Sphere in Las Vegas, this time with a review of the film on the "screen", Darren Aronofsky's "Postcard From Earth". We look closer at whether the film can be separated from the...
Implausipod E0020 - The Sphere Before and After
In the first of episode of a two-parter, we visit The Sphere, in Las Vegas Nevada with a before and after personal reflection of my first encounter with the site, and how my expectations meshed with the reality of the experience. We ponde...
Implausipod E0016 - Spreadable Media
Spreadable media is a theory of how media is distributed in online culture, but is the theory, originally proposed in 2013, still relevant in 2023 when everyone is trying to "go viral" online? We take a deep dive at the theory, and look a...
Implausipod E0019 - The 14th Doctor
What does a sci-fi fan who's never seen Doctor Who think of their first exposure to a full episode of the series? Can you even be a sci-fi fan if you haven't? Well, we're about to find out. Welcome our guest, an academic and D...
Implausipod E0018 - Appendix W E03 - The Game of Rat and Dragon
In episode 18 of the Implausipod we return to Appendix W with a little known but pivotal short story for both science fiction generally and Warhammer 40000 specifically, and the creation of the Warp, and the daemons that dwell within: Cor...
Implausipod E0017 - Not a Techno-Optimist
If you had asked me on October 15th, 2023, how to self describe myself, I might say I was a techno optimist. But on October 16th, Mark Andreesen, the founder of Netscape, released the Techno-optimist manifesto, and I can no longer say that I'm ...
Implausipod E0015 - EEE Embrace Extend Extinguish
EEE, or Embrace Extend Extinguish has been making the rounds again in 2023 as a number of silicon valley tech companies have been coming under the spotlight for their business practices, and some striking similarities are showing to a strategy ...
Implausipod E0014 - Dumpshock
What happens when you're forcibly ejected from Virtual Reality? You may experience "dumpshock" - a bewildering disorientation from the rapid change in context, and you may experience something similar on the internet if you shift from an ...
Implausipod E0013 - Context Collapse
Tiktok has a noise problem, and it's indicative of a larger issue ongoing within social media, that of "context collapse". But even context collapse is expanding outside its original context and evidence of it can be seen in the rise of g...
Implausipod E0012 - AI Reflections
AI provides a refection of humanity back at us, through a screen, darkly. But that glass can provide different visions, depending on the viewpoint of the observer. Are the generative tools that we call AI a tool for advancement and ...