• Pop Culture,  Social Media,  Society,  Technology

    Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 149 – WikiPodcastia

    In Episode 149 of the Trampled Underfoot Podcast: Has the internet made us smarter? With so much information literally at our fingertips, have we really become any smarter than we were when we relied on libraries and books for our information? Information is easier to find than it has ever been. Is that information correct, though? How do we check it? Do we even care? Eloy Escagedo and Mark Lindsay explore the topic with lots of references to Wikipedia, books, magazines, and even a video taken in France in 1899. In that video, modern Artificial Intelligence technology was used to colorize it, then bring it up to 60 fps. The…

  • Pop Culture,  Society

    Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 142 – The Problem With Conspiracy Theories

    In Episode 142 of the Trampled Underfoot Podcast: We revisit the topic of conspiracy theories. Mark Lindsay recalls our most popular episode on YouTube is the one titled “Rendezvous with the Lizard People.” The conversation starts off with people that take a little bit of information, and run wild with it. Why is it that the first source of info is automatically believed, but all other info (even from the same source) can’t be believed? We delve into it further, but ultimately the decision is yours. There’s more in this episode than can be described here, so pull up a pineapple, prepare to take notes, keep an open mind, and…