This week on Future Chat, I talked a lot about the latest stuff going on in and around space (there’s a lot), and Mike and Nick brought me up to speed about mobile news and CRISPR respectively.
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Future Chat 86 – We’re Taking on Vox (January 25)
Future Chat 85 – Like racism, but on the Internet (January 19)
This week on Future Chat, we had a really great time chatting about cable packages (I go on a bit of a rant), talk more about alternative energy in various places, and talk about kids learning code.
Future Chat 84 | Angosticism for the Win? (January 12)
On the show this week, we went really in-depth talking about new elements and particles that have recently been discovered, only the very best of CES, and NFC’s future in Canada, where we already tap to pay for almost everything.
Future Chat 83 | You’re Just Buying A Bucket (January 4)
This week’s show was a smorgasbord of tangents and divergences. We talked about water, coffee, cell phone data plans, and hockey.
Future Chat 82 – Beard Prejudice
This week on Future Chat, we talked about Facebook (including my latest rant about Facebook, starting at 19:25), the latest attempt to save the world by reversing anthropogenic climate change, and how sugary foods won’t impact all dieters the same way.
Future Chat 81 – The Tickets Are Now Diamonds
On the show this week, after solving some of Mike’s electrical problems and getting him on the phone, we proceeded to talk about a new form of carbon, the increasing price and rarity of unlimited data plans, and how we might be able to get on student radio.
A Big Day
It only makes sense that exactly three years (to the day) after doing my very first video on YouTube, I would cross the threshold of actually earning real money from Google. Let me tell you the story.
For a little over a year, starting on July 4, 2011, I had been writing on my blog (which still exists to this day). December 1st, 2012, I made my first YouTube video, a Google+ Hangout live chat with my good friend, Carolyn Higman. You can go watch it, the quality of the video is relatively embarrassing, and a lot has changed since then.
The first time I exposed my face to the world, three years ago to the day. As a point of comparison, here is the latest episode of Future Chat, recorded this past weekend:
Over the years, a lot has changed. But one thing that hasn’t changed is that I still love teaching, helping, writing, and learning about technology. Here’s a brief timeline of my milestones on the internet.
July 4, 2011 – I start Living In The Future, my blog, on my birthday. I published the first post the following day.
December 1, 2012 – My first Google+ Hangout on Air.
January 14, 2013 – I agree to begin work with Sons of Pluto, a band with my friends. Work includes recording their practices, shows, building their website, making promo videos, and running their social media accounts. Those guys are now working on an EP!
February 7, 2014 – The first Future Tech Chat takes place. This is the spiritual successor to the first Hangout on Air from 2012, and the podcast continues on a weekly basis to this day under the more general “Future Chat“.
March 27, 2014 – I make the first Attrell Update video. My sister and I go on to exchange videos on a weekly (or almost weekly) basis until December of 2014.
May 20, 2014 – The first episode of Ottawhat is released, after Keegan, Amaan and I decide we should start an Ottawa-themed podcast about people.
December 14-16, 2014 – East Meets West and Feedback debut, also marking the formal launch of UnwindMedia.com, a media network that is the home of my Internet-related work so far.
November 5, 2015 – Ottawhat News, a satirical look at events around Ottawa, has it’s first viral post. In just a few days, over 65,000 people read about Peter Hayes and the Bier Markt.
December 1, 2015 (Today) – In an inevitability of time, math, and fortune, Unwind Media finally passes the threshold for being paid real money for ads on the sites I run. It is now just a matter of time now until a cheque from Google arrives. It’s not a lot of money, but it feels extremely good to hit that threshold.
I really love making things, and being creative. I’ve been doing it for over 4 years and I’m more excited now than I ever have been. I’m looking really hard for a job right now, and the stuff I do on the side is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment, as it’s one creative outlet I have amidst filling out applications and writing cover letters.
Future Chat 80 – We’re Not Eating The Bugs Yet
Mike and I joined up again for another fun episode, despite that fact that Nick was once again unable to join us.I talked about the results of my one year plus experiment with personal hygiene. Tune in to hear what I did, and how things turned out.
Future Chat 79 – Shoving the Gene In
Future Chat this week was a fun chat between Mike and I about genetically modified foods, the Tesla recall, and a recent experiment on self-control with kids and raisins.We also got into a good discussion of online forums in the aftershow. Given the recent changes to Google+, we questioned the validity of wild-west type forums where moderators can stake their claims to certain topics, to the exclusion of others, even in a democratic forum. The aftershow starts at 1:01:41, and though we start from a Google+ angle, the discussion is interesting even if you don’t give a crap about G+.
Future Chat 78 – Overrun by Cod
This week on Future Chat, we discussed the food industry in some detail, some interesting data on how to change the mind of an anti-vaxxer, and more interesting energy projects going on around the world.Future Chat is a ton of fun and if you haven’t listened in a while (or ever), I would strongly encourage you to give it a chance. This weekly podcast is a real passion project of Mike, Nick and I, and we really have a lot of fun with it. It’s a niche show, but we obviously think it’s worth listening to. If you enjoy it, we’d really love to hear from you via Twitter @_FutureChatFM or by way of an iTunes review.
