Baldur reflects on his family’s history in radio broadcasting, his path to interactive media and writing books and how he moved away from listening to tech podcasts. Content warning: some coarse language Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) (listener) Find Baldur at baldurbjarnason.com (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com). Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF (https://martinfeld.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/2023-08-really-specific-stories-transcript-e28094-baldur-bjarnason.pdf) or in plain text (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/c/c67dadf4-8798-4528-8e7d-e45b83c1d218/episodes/9/9177fcb6-0a8e-4ec0-a803-2544c12e6b86/transcript.txt). Links and Show Notes Fourth Generation 00:00:00 RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) Perl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl) Interactive media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_media) RÚV is the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. (https://www.ruv.is/um-ruv/about-ruv) World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) British invasion of Iceland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_invasion_of_Iceland) Allied occupation of Iceland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland) Attack of Pearl Harbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor) Telegraphy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy) Axis powers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers) Hotel Borg (https://borg-by-keas-reykjavik.hotel-ds.com/en/) Vox populi (or vox pop) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_populi) Web development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development) Interactive Media Environments 00:08:13 Software widget (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_widget) Graphical widget (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_widget) COVID-19 pandemic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) HyperCard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard) Macintosh SE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE) Solitaire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire) Tetris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris) What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG) Comparative literature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_literature) Computer science (or ‘comp sci’) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science) University of the West of England (UWE) (https://www.uwe.ac.uk) Bower Ashton campus map (https://www.uwe.ac.uk/life/campus-and-facilities/city-campus/bower-ashton-campus-map) BBC Radio (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_one) Dot-com bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble) (including reference to the dot-com crash) Adobe Flash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash) Sandbox (software development) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(software_development)) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy) ebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook) Amazon Kindle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle) iPhone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) iPad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad) Defamiliarisation 00:15:43 Artificial intelligence (AI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) Cryptocurrency (or ‘crypto’) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency) Popular culture (or ‘pop culture’) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture) The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1291973.The_Real_World_of_Technology) Recordings of public lectures in the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology) Processor (computing) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_(computing)) Musical genre mash-up! Pop-punk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-punk) Post-punk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-punk) Neosurrealism (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/neo-surrealism) Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm) Jason Snell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Snell_(writer)) Defamiliarisation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization) Viktor Shklovsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shklovsky) Bertolt Brecht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht) YouTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube) Line Goes Up – The Problem with NFTs (https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g) Defunctland (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVo63lbKHjC04KqYhwSZ_Pg) Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History (https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE) App Store (iOS/iPadOS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS/iPadOS)) Tom Abba (https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/TomAbba) *This is not the future of the book (http://thisisnotabook.baldurbjarnason.com/podcast/) Out of the Software Crisis by Baldur Bjarnason (https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com) Open source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source) Pick and Choose 00:31:03 Round table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table) Narrative journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism) 20 Macs for 2020 was released in multiple formats: a ...
