Podcast #35: Ainissa Ramirez
Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.
Category: Transportation
Tell Alexa You’re Busy Driving
The Amazon Echo Auto promises only further distraction in a place where distraction is deadly: behind the wheel.
Podcast #34: Ben Green on Smart Enough Cities
Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.
The Challenge of Driverless Cars Goes Far Beyond Safety
While engineers devise systems narrowly focused on safety, no one is grappling with the moral and enivornmental quandaries driverless cars pose.
Podcast #20: Huei Peng and Driverless Cars
A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.
Podcast #10: Nicole Freedman on Bike Transit
When Nicole Freedman became Boston’s first “bike czar,” the city had been rated worst in the country in bike friendliness by Bicycling Magazine. A decade later, it’s been in the top ten with a growing network of protected lanes and one of the nation’s first major bike-sharing programs. Freedman describes what it takes to change culture around transit and how everyone can benefit.
2016, The Year in Review
A look back at the biggest technology-related stories of 2016.
Highway Privacy: It Tolls for Thee
Massachusetts moves to all-electronic tolling on its toll roads. Your state may be next. But while it speeds travel, it removes another freedom: that of travelling anonymously.
Convenience, Control, and Contempt: Uber (part two)
It long ago became an agreed upon standard of liberal capitalist democracy that a monopoly was a bad thing. This [...]