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Diginauts 0012 — Amazon’s Many Plans To Replace Humans, Politics & Your Brain, Are We Evolving into a New Species?

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Challenging Your Brain’s Political Believes (0:00): A study shows MRI images of people who’s deepest political beliefs are challenged, and it matches primitive reactions to life-threatening situations.
segment 2, Future File — Human-Computer Hybrids (12:37): The Singularity is looming. We discuss what the future of humanity will look like, and whether humans will merge with computers to form what amounts to a new species.
segment 3, Juris Prudent — Search Warrants for Amazon Echo Data (35:48): A murder case has caused law enforcement to seek recordings from a personal assistant device. Do people have a right to privacy when it comes to always-listening technology?
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (47:20): Your environmental update, then a look at the latest happenings in self-driving vehicles. How will fewer car crashes impact organ donation?
segment 5, What’s Your Take — Warehouses in the Sky (1:09:46): Amazon filed for a patent to place blimps into high-altitude flight over cities, so that drones can deliver your products faster.

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Drumpf & Technology (0:00): Technology’s most powerful are gathering in New York to meet with Donald Drumpf. What will they say? And what the hell are they not telling us about Russian cyber interference in the election?
segment 2, Future File — Fusion Stellerator (23:55): German scientists have successfully tested the next level of their fusion device, and the results were unprecedentedly positive.
segment 3, Juris Prudent — Opting Out of Body Scanners (35:33): A blogger shared his experience opting out of the “voluntary” airport scanners in Berlin. FAKE NEWS ALERT!!! Deron mentions that a TSA operator was caught masturbating to images from a backscatter device. He got fooled. Snopes says that never happened.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (48:34): After a round-up of headlines on climate change, we discuss the possibility of the UK military recruiting computer gamers as weaponized drone operators. We also listen to a Christmas song composed by an artificial intelligence that was shown a picture of a Christmas tree.
segment 5, What’s Your Take — Entrepreneurial Predisposition (1:03:55): We discuss whether entrepreneurship is in your DNA.

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