Tuesday, Sep 27, 2022 • 1min
What’s a Hard Fork?
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Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore stories from the wild frontier of tech.
What’s real? What’s hype? “Hard Fork” is here to help you make sense of it. Tune in on Friday, Oct. 7.
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Kevin Roose
00:00
I'm
Kevin Roose
, a tech columnist at the New York Times
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Casey Newton
00:03
And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
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Kevin Roose
00:05
Casey, we should probably explain why our podcast is called Hard Fork?
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Casey Newton
00:10
Oh yeah, so A are other names didn't get approved by the
New York Times
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Kevin Roose
00:15
True.
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Casey Newton
00:15
And B, it's actually a good name for what we're going to talk about.
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00:18
Hard Fork is a programming term for when you're building something that gets really screwed up. So you take the entire thing, break it and start over.
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Kevin Roose
00:26
Right. And that's a little bit what it feels like right now in the tech industry, like these companies that you and I have been writing about for the past decade, like
Facebook
and Google
and Amazon
, they're all kind of struggling to stay relevant.Share
Casey Newton
00:38
Yeah, I mean, we've noticed a lot of the energy and money in
Silicon Valley
is shifting to totally new ideas, crypto, the metaverse, Ai, it feels like a real turning point when the old things are going away and interesting new ones are coming in to replace them, and all this is happening so fast.Share
Kevin Roose
00:55
And some of it's so strange, like I just feel like I'm texting you constantly, like what is happening? What is this story? Explain this to me. Talk with me about this because I feel like I'm going insane.
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Casey Newton
01:06
And so we're going to try to help each other feel a little bit less insane. We're going to talk about these stories. We're going to bring in other journalists newsmakers.
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01:15
Whoever else is involved in building this future to explain to us what's changing and why it all matters.
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Kevin Roose
01:21
So listen to Hard Fork. It comes out every Friday, starting October 7th, wherever you get your podcasts.
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