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Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:00 am

Americans are turning back to old-fashioned tinkering and hands-on innovation. We’ll ask what a new burst of grassroots engineering might mean for the U.S. economy.

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Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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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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Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

America’s super-hot electric car from Tesla Motors. We’ll talk with Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.

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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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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 11:00 am

“The Beatles: Rock Band” is the video game event of the season. We’ll ask its creator how it changes the way we experience music.

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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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Monday, August 3, 2009 at 10:00 am

No cars. No waste. No gas or oil. We go to Abu Dhabi, where plans are underway to build the world’s first carbon-neutral city.

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Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

Robots among us. iRobot CEO Colin Angle on the business and science of robotics now.

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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, March 19, 2009 at 11:00 am

More newspapers bite the dust. Will a million bloggers save, maybe even improve, the news? Or not?

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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 [...]

 
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 11:00 am

Grand Theft Auto IV, out this week in its millions of red hot copies, is a vast sensation in the video gaming world. It’s a blockbuster — bigger than movies or music and way bigger than books.
It is – as usual – bloody, brutal, grim, dark, wild — a no-holds-barred video crime spree set in [...]

 
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 11:00 am

For a long time in life, Alzheimer’s seems like somebody else’s problem. An issue for the unfortunate old. A misty, separate continent of life.
And then, it can hit you. Your own parents, needing help. Losing their grip. Your own odds of following them into Alzheimer’s — higher than you’d ever wish.
One in 10 people get [...]

 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 10:00 am

Last week, in the frozen north of Norway, the seeds began to pour into the Global Seed Vault — the “doomsday vault,” some have called it. Five hundred feet of a super-secure cave in an Arctic mountainside is filling now with millions of seeds from all over the world.
As climate change and genetic engineering put [...]

 
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 [...]

 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 11:00 am

As stock markets around Asia and the world headed south today, India’s finance minister tried to calm the selling: “Look,” he said, “India’s economy is headed for a booming 9 percent growth this year.” So he hopes.
And what will Indians spend that plenty on? India’s industrial giant Tata hopes they will soon be spending it [...]

 
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 11:00 am

If you hadn’t noticed, you’re not looking. We live in the era of pervasive cosmetic surgery. Everybody nipped and tucked and botoxed and lipo-sucked to a fare-the-well.
Look around at the “trout pout” lips and “wind tunnel” facelifts, the Kabuki zone of expressionless brows, the gravity-defying fronts and rears and rows of paint-white teeth — and [...]

 
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 10:00 am

Climate change is on the table this week at the world conference in Bali, Indonesia, and on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
But as the politicians haggle over much-needed climate policy, scientists and venture capitalists, students and inventors, are looking to give us an extreme energy makeover: pursuing breakthroughs in everything from biofuels to green buildings, [...]

 
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 11:00 am

It sounds like a sci-fi nightmare: scientists bring back to life ancient deadly viruses that once wiped out vast numbers of the human race for research purposes only, of course. And where do they go to find those extinct diseases? Deep within our own genome.
Long ago, some of the viruses that didn’t kill us got [...]

 
On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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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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