Spawn of Sponcon

Flash Forward

• Episode: Spawn of Sponcon
• Website: Flash Forward
• Feed URL: http://www.flashforwardpod.com/feed/podcast/
• Duration: 00:51:31
• Published: 2018-08-28 09:00

On today’s episode we travel to the near-future of advertising. Welcome to a future in which you can sign up to be a brand ambassador, and get paid for every time you mention a product in conversation. Simply download the app, and your phone will listen to your every word waiting to hear brand names, and pay you some money every time you mention one.  Guests: Deborah Dahl, speech technology expert and principal of Conversational Technologies Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Lindsey Webber, writer, editor and cohost of the podcast Who? Weekly Bobby Finger, writer at Jezebel and cohost of the podcast Who? Weekly Kristen Strader, campaign coordinator for Public Citizen’s Commerical Alert program 🚀 Further reading and source notes can be found here 🚀 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices