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Google is making the online world faster and easier by predicting what you’ll do, then doing it for you! Plus: Mike’s List and more. 

Why real stuff is making a comeback!

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Now that everything’s digital, connected, automated and efficient, what are we missing from the analog world? My guest in this week's episode wrote a book called “The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter.”

Here’s my conversation with +David Sax.

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Now that everything's digital, connected, automated and efficient, what are we missing from the analog world? My guest today wrote a book called "The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter." Here's my conversation with David Sax. 

The best virtual assistant appliance was invented by this teenager

Dylan Rose is kickstarting a new kind of wearable. It’s a virtual assistant appliance called Kai that clips onto any glasses and transmits audio through bone conduction. It’s a brilliant concept, but here’s the best part: Dylan is still in high school.

Here’s my conversation with Dylan Rose.

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Crickets, algae and lab-grown burgers. It’s what’s for dinner!

In the future, will we all eat crickets, algae and burgers grown in a lab? I asked the founder of Studio Industries at the recent reThinkFood conference in Napa, California. Later in the podcast, I’ll take you inside a San Francisco startup inventing the future of smart glasses. But first, here’s my conversation with Mike Lee.

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In the future, will we all eat crickets, algae and burgers grown in a lab? I asked the founder of Studio Industries at the recent reThinkFood conference in Napa, California. Later in the podcast, I'll take you inside a San Francisco startup inventing the future of smart glasses. But first, here's my conversation with Mike Lee.

Grabbing a quick lunch at a busy restaurant puts you at the mercy of ordering and payment processes from the Spanish inquisition. Now, a startup called Allset is using technology to get you in and out in 30 minutes. 

Here's my conversation with Allset founder and CEO, Stas Matviyenko.

Test your own food, water and weed for purity, quality

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The label says it’s organic. But can you really trust the label?

Soon you’ll be able to test the food you buy, the water you drink and more with a handheld gadget from MyDx, a company founded by former Pfizer scientist Daniel Yazbeck.

Here’s my conversation with Daniel Yazbeck:

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/8/items/fatcast18/fatcast18.mp3

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