July 5, 2014
In the first program after Independence Day, Dr. Dave admires founders who understood the contradictions of their own time yet refused to lower the country's ideals to match them. A client's compliment about Dr. Dave's recorded telephone voice becomes a warm round of jokes with Evil Steve, while a childhood claim of being the first person ever to see a famous commercial preserves another playful family memory. Bitcoin gives Dr. Dave a larger lesson about technological enthusiasm: the invention may be brilliant and full of potential, but people still need to keep their feet on the ground about risk, government and human behavior. The episode also captures contemporary arguments about Facebook experiments and Internet freedom, the coming Windows release and Google Cardboard's unusually inexpensive approach to virtual reality.
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Regular show: segments
8 recordings · 95:09 total within this version.
Numbered positions are present in sequence. This alone does not prove the show is complete.