The WIRED Podcast

Hello, WIRED podcast listeners. We’re on a short break from producing new episodes at the moment, with some big plans for next year. In the meantime, we need your help.

Tell us: What are your burning questions about the future.

The future of what? Anything. Big or small, strange or serious. We want to hear your questions.

And they may even make it into a future episode of the show.

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Coming up today: the devastating impact of Iran’s internet shutdown and we find out what happened when a Danish city banned Google from its schools.

The stories we talk about this week:

A Danish City Built Google Into Its Schools—Then Banned It

https://www.wired.com/story/denmark-google-schools-data/

Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown

https://www.wired.com/story/iran-protests-2022-internet-shutdown-whatsapp/

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited by Matt Burgess

After a brief pause last week, the WIRED podcast returns.

Coming up today: Natasha on what it’s like working at Twitter amid Elon Musk chaos, and Matt Reynolds on a mad plan to grow plants without sunlight.

The stories we talked about this week:

As Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Workers Say No One’s in Charge

https://www.wired.com/story/plants-growing-in-darkness/

Scientists Are Trying to Grow Crops in the Dark

https://www.wired.com/story/plants-growing-in-darkness/

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited by Matt Burgess

Coming up today: Natasha reveals the latest trick to lure people back to the office and Amit unmasks the many problems with the lie detector.

The stories we talked about this week:

Employers Are Luring Workers Back to the Office—With Plants

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/office-plants-hybrid-working

Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector

https://twitter.com/amitkatwala/status/1513498832344174598

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited by Matt Burgess

Coming up today: the fallout from the impending fall of Roe v Wade and we look back at four years of Europe’s landmark data privacy law.

The stories we talked about this week:

Patients May Not Receive Miscarriage Care in a Post-Roe America

https://www.wired.com/story/miscarriage-care-roe-versus-wade/

The Ramifications of Roe v. Wade’s Fall Won’t Stop at Abortion Bans

https://www.wired.com/story/ramifications-of-post-roe-world/

All of WIRED's coverage on a Post-Roe America

https://www.wired.com/tag/reproductive-rights/

How GDPR Is Failing

https://www.wired.com/story/gdpr-2022/

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited by Matt Burgess