FT Tech Tonic

Financial Times

We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new technological age.

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261 episodes
Updated July 15

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Dec 19, 2018 · 25 min
Graphcore's next generation chip technology
Nigel Toon, founder and chief executive of Graphcore, talks to John Thornhill about the chip technology his company is developing and its potential to speed the advance of machine learning.  
Dec 12, 2018 · 35 min
What robots can teach humans
John Thornhill talks to Maja Pantic, Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computing at Imperial College in London, about her work testing the boundaries of human robot interaction.
Dec 5, 2018 · 26 min
Making the most of work chat
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based Slack tells John Thornhill how his fascination for technology that facilitates human interaction came about.
Nov 28, 2018 · 18 min
Artificial intelligence that learns on the fly
Physicist Zdenka Kuncic tells FT science editor Clive Cookson about the difference between software-based and hardware-based approaches to artificial intelligence and her work to develop autonomous intelligent systems for potential use in space and in ...
Nov 21, 2018 · 23 min
The business of cybercrime
Sociologist Jonathan Lusthaus spent seven years talking to cyber criminals.  He tells Hannah Kuchler what he discovered about the extent of their involvement with organised crime and what he thinks it would take to persuade them to put their t...
Nov 14, 2018 · 26 min
Technology and the human brain
Murali Doraiswamy, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Duke University Health System, tells Shannon Bond about his research into potential technological solutions to neurological and mental health disorders.
Nov 7, 2018 · 21 min
Investing in deep tech
Investor Alice Newcombe-Ellis tells John Thornhill about her strategy for discovering and investing in the next generation of disruptive technology companies
Oct 31, 2018 · 23 min
Puncturing the AI hype
Zia Chishti's latest business venture Afiniti uses artificial intelligence to match customers and employees, but he tells John Thornhill he sees the technology as evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, and offers his thoughts on the dos and don...
Oct 24, 2018 · 24 min
Who sets the internet standards?
Hannah Kuchler talks to American social scientist and cyber security expert Andrea Little Limbago about the worrying lack of agreement among governments on how best to promote the beneficial aspects of the internet.
Oct 17, 2018 · 30 min
David Sanger on cyber warfare
John Thornhill talks to the New York Times journalist about his latest book: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age.  
Oct 10, 2018 · 27 min
Adrian Lovett on fighting for a better web
Web Foundation president and CEO Adrian Lovett talks to John Thornhill about open data, net neutrality and widening global internet access.Web Foundation website
Oct 3, 2018 · 22 min
Jocelyn Bell Burnell on new frontiers in astronomy
Clive Cookson talks to astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell about her decision to give away her $3m Breakthrough Prize in physics and about what she sees as the most exciting new areas of future research.
Sep 26, 2018 · 28 min
Tristan Harris on digital Frankensteins
The former Google employee turned campaigner has made it his mission to alert society about the dangers of using computer algorithms to capture our attention. He tells John Thornhill why he co-founded the Centre for Humane Technology and what it does.
Sep 19, 2018 · 25 min
Liberty and morality in the AI era
Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics, Verity Harding of Google DeepMind, and Tabitha Goldstaub, co-founder of CognitionX, discuss liberty and morality in the AI era in a panel debate recorded at the FT’s recent FT Weekend Festival in London.
Sep 12, 2018 · 23 min
Irene Ng on redistributing the economic power of data
Entrepreneur and academic Irene Ng talks to John Thornhill about the Hub of all Things - a microserver that allows people to own and control their own data.
Sep 5, 2018 · 26 min
What's next for Dropbox?
Drew Houston, co-founder of the business software company, tells John Thornhill how he caught the entrepreneurial bug and what's next for Dropbox.
Aug 29, 2018 · 1 min
Tech Tonic returns
John Thorhill and guests return for a news series of Tech Tonic, the show that looks at the way technology is changing our lives.
May 9, 2018 · 24 min
How can we make governments smarter?
Robyn Scott talks to John Thornhill about her company Apolitical, a global news and networking site that seeks to share knowledge and spread best practice among the world's top civil servants
May 2, 2018 · 22 min
The new AI battleground
Nicole Eagan, chief executive of Darktrace, tells John Thornhill corporate networks have become the new battleground in a cyberwar waged by criminals and state actors using artificial intelligence
Apr 25, 2018 · 27 min
Terah Lyons on fashioning the AI future
John Thornhill talks to Terah Lyons, founding executive director of the Partnership on AI, a US initiative that brings civil society groups into a debate with big tech companies to promote the benefits of machine intelligence.