How tech is changing how we watch the Winter Olympics

February 13
28 mins

Episode Description

The Winter Olympics is using drones, AI and cloud-based broadcasting to track curling stones, freeze mid-air jumps, even talk to an official Winter Olympics chatbot. It’s turning sports spectatorship into something more high tech than ever before. Is it likely to be used in other sports?

Plus, a battle is being waged in court between a 20-year-old and Meta/YouTube. The argument is over whether Meta and YouTube's social media sites are engineered to be intentionally addictive. What precedent will this set if the case is successful?

GUESTS:

  • Chris Berg, professor of economics at RMIT. 
  • David Braue, technology journalist at Information Age. 

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