Want to understand today? There's a podcast for that

RedShark alumni and contributors David Shapton, Simon Wyndham, and Phil Rhodes are the faces behind a new technology podcast, How to Understand Today.

How to Understand Today is a new technology podcast hosted by tech journalists and frequent contributors to RedShark, David Shapton, Simon Wyndham, and Phil Rhodes. It aims to discuss the latest tech revolutions and developments in an accessible way that everyone can understand, while at the same time debunking what the trio say are "the inevitable myths and knee-jerk reactionary stories that follow them."

Why How to Understand Today? The problem is that technological change is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with. While on one level we don't really see this happening - it's been 50 years since we stepped on the Moon, for instance - on another, less macro level the speed of change is astounding. Shapton points to the iPhone 16 as an example.

"It has tens of billions of transistors in it," he says. "If you try to build that with valves, it would cover an area the size of Greater San Francisco. And it would require multiple nuclear power stations. And it wouldn't have video. It wouldn't have a camera. It wouldn't have GPS. So, in the space of, let's say six decades, we've gone from a valve radiogram, which is a very nice radio and record player, to this; what would look from an alien civilization to us if we were around 100 years ago, a glass slab that has unbelievable computing power in it. And we can almost guarantee that 10 years in the future, this iPhone will seem incredibly primitive."

The second episode has just dropped and covers the rapidly evolving landscape of AI image generation and its implications for society. Have a look below.