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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:00 am

Google, Apple and a whole tech universe are vying for the next great prize: mobile computing. We’ll ask how life changes with a smartphone in everyone’s pocket.

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Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:00 am

We talk with two top computer scientists about how “total recall” technology could change all our lives.

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Monday, August 10, 2009 at 11:00 am

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple. The Internet wars are hot. We’ll ask what’s at stake as the battle shifts from desktops to the digital cloud.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:00 am

We look at the addictive, cathartic world of Internet confession.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 10:00 am

Vivian Schiller — the tip-top boss of NPR — joins us for a conversation on the future of public radio and to take your calls.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 10:00 am

Facebook’s social network is 200 million strong and growing fast. But the culture and its expectations are changing. We’ll look at the Facebook evolution.

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 10:00 am

They’re calling it “GhostNet” — a vast cyber-spying network, suspected to be run from China. We talk with the computer sleuths who uncovered it, and ask them how they did it.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 11:00 am

Cyber bullies verbally savaged two Yale law students. The women fought back. Their case may change the rules on what you can say online.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

This just in: Television viewing is at an all-time high. And we’re doing it in more ways than ever. We’ll ask why and where, and what’s next for TV.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 at 10:00 am

The White House, Pentagon, and American business, all hacked. We look at the new front lines of global confrontation.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 10:00 am

All those hours teens spend online may be good for them, according to a new MacArthur Foundation study. We’ll talk with young people about thriving in a digital world.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 11:00 am

We’ll ask The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, The New Yorker’s Nicholas Lemann, and Daily Beast chief Tina Brown.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 10:00 am

In the world of the Internet, Jeff Bezos is a giant. A pioneer. In the old days, they might have said a god.
He started Amazon.com when e-commerce was next to nothing and the web was still a whisper. Today, Bezos is a billionaire, Amazon is ubiquitous, and the web, well, it’s the way [...]

 
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 11:00 am

The world loves its iPods, iPhones, TiVo, OnStar, XBox and Blackberries. They all run off the Internet. But the Internet was built — and built out — in the age of the personal computer, when anyone could climb on and tinker from their keyboard.
That openness — almost anarchy — made the Net a wide-open realm [...]

 
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 11:00 am

First there was Microsoft, and a colossus made from software for the personal computer. Then those PCs got tied together on the web, and there was Yahoo, a giant hub for e-mail and chat rooms and all the web brought.
Then there was Google, the uber search engine and high-minded master of the Internet universe, with [...]

 
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 11:00 am

It’s a hot new TV show about young Americans straining to launch their lives in an uncertain time. And it’s not premiering on TV. The new show, called “Quarterlife,” will premier this fall on the Web. The Internet. Not on the big screen in the family room, but the little ones, all over.
TV and television-style [...]

 
Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
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A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
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The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

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On Point Blog
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

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Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.

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