{"id":29279,"date":"2017-07-19T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=29279"},"modified":"2017-07-19T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:31:01","slug":"brad-templeton-futurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/brad-templeton-futurist\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Templeton, Futurist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We have hired an editor to edit the Cool Tools podcast. It costs us $300 a month. So far, Cool Tools listeners have pledged $172 a month to the podcast. Please consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cooltools\">supporting us<\/a>\u00a0on Patreon. We have nice rewards for people who contribute! \u2013 MF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brad Templeton is founding faculty for Computing &amp; Networks at <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singularity University<\/a>, and Chairman Emeritus and futurist of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> (EFF), the leading cyberspace civil rights foundation. He is on the board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/foresight.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foresight Institute<\/a>. He also advised Google&#8217;s team developing self-driving cars, and writes about such cars at <a href=\"http:\/\/robocars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">robocars.com<\/a>. He also advises <a href=\"http:\/\/robocars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Starship<\/a> on delivery robots and <a href=\"http:\/\/robocars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quanergy<\/a> in the LIDAR space. He founded ClariNet Communications Corp (the world&#8217;s first &#8220;dot-com&#8221; company.) He also created rec.humor.funny, the world&#8217;s longest running blog.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/333918678&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/12amS2E1d-YEzpQiGrID5FJFzqeyaFHCnYQJcMkp1dXs\/edit?usp=sharing\">Transcript<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/6274075\/333918678-cool-tools-81-brad-templeton.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tag\/cool-tools-show\/\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Show notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29280\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/4KTV-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"4KTV\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/4KTV-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/4KTV-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/4KTV.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtings.com\/tv\/reviews\/best\/by-usage\/pc-monitor\" target=\"_blank\">4K TVs as computer monitors<\/a><br \/>\n\u201c[I have] a 50-inch 4K television, and you may think, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s really big, how far away do you sit from it?\u2019 I sit the same distance I sat from the 30-inch and the 24-inches that so many people use. In fact, if you think about it, the typical 24-inch HD monitor, that is the most common sort of monitor sold today or a few years ago, that actually is one quarter of 4K and it\u2019s 24-inches, which means it\u2019s basically half of the 50-inch screen. \u2026 The great thing though is, they\u2019re selling these TVs really cheap. They\u2019re selling them down, you can get them for five, 600 bucks, even less \u2026They didn&#8217;t want you to use these as monitors, they designed them to be TVs. So there\u2019s s few tricks to pull, but if you do you can get something that&#8217;s just amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VoIP PBX<br \/>\n&#8220;I run a voice over IP PBX in my home, that&#8217;s a little unusual. You may not need to do that, but there are lots of voice over IP services now, so you can get even your landline phone to travel with you. No matter where you are in the world, even on your cell phone or on your computer or if you want to bring a small phone with you because you like that landline experience, which I happen to. I like the voice quality and the physicality of it for a real conversation. You can get that and proxy it up so that my phone in California, you can call it, and it&#8217;s gonna ring at my desk in Paris and I can call you back. It&#8217;s gonna look like I&#8217;m there. A lot of people are doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29284\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/Amazonfire-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Amazonfire\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/Amazonfire-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/Amazonfire-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/Amazonfire.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2uK68V4\" target=\"_blank\">Fire TV Stick<\/a> ($40)<br \/>\n\u201cI brought [overseas] my Amazon Fire Stick. I have the first generation one, that was my mistake. The second generation one can be programmed to do what you need to do here, which is use a VPN, a virtual private network. Why? Because you want to cheat all these global content controls that are telling me, even though I have an American Netflix account and I\u2019m paying money into it right now, Netflix will not show me the things that I pay for in the US, \u2018cause I&#8217;m in France.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29282\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/sonycamera-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"sonycamera\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/sonycamera-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/sonycamera-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/sonycamera.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2tHzcrb\" target=\"_blank\">Sony cameras<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I like the fact that my cameras keep getting smaller. \u2026 I\u2019ve got the Sony a7RII, that&#8217;s about the best of the digital SLRs for image quality right now. Now, Sony just came out with their A9 which is possibly better. And then in their line I have their APS-C size, that&#8217;s the sensor that&#8217;s about half the size of a full 35 millimeter frame. That drops a lot of weight. \u2026 I also have, again it\u2019s Sony so this one doesn&#8217;t have to be, but it&#8217;s one of the nicest little point and shoots. That fits in your pocket, and it&#8217;s the DSC-RX100 IV, and that guy does get some great images. But of course it just has a point and shoot zoom lens on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29283\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/robot-lightbulb-300x273.png\" alt=\"robot-lightbulb\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/robot-lightbulb-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/robot-lightbulb-1024x931.png 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/07\/robot-lightbulb.png 1092w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starship.xyz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Starship Technologies<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;My favorite tool I&#8217;m working on right now is with a company that&#8217;s based in Estonia, and it&#8217;s called Starship Technologies. We&#8217;re making a delivery robot. It&#8217;s a little robot the size of a big beer cooler, and it&#8217;s got six wheels, and it&#8217;s not fully autonomous yet, but it&#8217;s going to be. It&#8217;s going to bring you everything that you want to order in 30 minutes, and it&#8217;s gonna cost under a dollar to do it. \u2026 Like so many things these days, you won\u2019t be able to get one. You&#8217;ll be able to get one to bring you something, or if you&#8217;re a delivery company you might be able to buy them. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Tools Show 081: Brad Templeton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1559],"tags":[1472],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29285,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279\/revisions\/29285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}