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Black Mirror Tech IRL: Hacker Noon Writers on What’s Worrying in 2021

by Natasha NelSeptember 15th, 2020

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7 Top Hacker Noon Contributors weigh in with their scariest tech predictions for 2021. Expect a 9-minute American Horror Story anthology on everything from AI and Privacy to the internet’s impact on the planet. The solutions to these problems and more are all somewhere on hackernoon.com right now. (Probably.) The solutions are all on the site right now, and the good news is that the solutions are already there. (probably.) The next week's episode will be the first episode of Black Mirror Tech IRL.

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I asked 7 Top Hacker Noon Contributors to weigh in with their scariest tech predictions for 2021 — expect a 9-minute American Horror Story anthology on everything from AI and Privacy to the internet’s impact on the planet.

IN THIS PODCAST

(01:00) Ryan Dawson on how much data we’re giving away without realizing it;
(01:45) Matt Klein on ubiquitous tech and resulting and related content overproduction;
(03:30) Aditi Bhatnagar on what our collective data is being used for;
(04:40) Vladimiros Peilivanidis on the next wave of intelligence being designed by us lowly humans;
(05:10) Gajesh Naik on AI and automation stealing iterative jobs;
(05:50) Sharmistha Chatterjee on whether or not your industry’s advancing faster than you are;
And at (07:40) Melinda LB Lewis on the internet’s impact on our planet