HWMS Audio Theatre

HWMS Audio Theatre


Latest Episodes

Your Job Taken by a Machine?
March 07, 2018

Are machines taking are jobs? Or perhaps more to the point, are you concerned that machines, smart machines, are poised to take your job? With this episode, we start an examination of smart machines as a substitute for workers.

Why Don’t They Finish?
February 28, 2018

Do young employees find it hard to finish tasks? Is it somehow difficult for them to bring a job to completion? So we ask the question and start to look for an answer. Our cast moves from the problem of finishing tasks to the problem of finishing MOOCS...

Really a Real Professional – Introduction to Eta Kappa Nu
February 20, 2018

Is it real? Move from a classroom to a professional office is real enough, though it proves to be something like a dream when you pass through it. The goal is real enough. Your past remains vivid in your mind. Your present standing is far from clear.

Cyberspace as Frontier: John Perry Barlow
February 13, 2018

He is remembered as as the founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation. Or, alternatively, as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and link between counterculture and technology. However, John Perry Barlow was the writer that argued that cyberspace was a ...

Data Driven Decisions and the Office in India
February 02, 2018

We sent the cast to Bangalore. We went looking for an office. It was a hard task. Harder than any of them thought.   There are a lot of choices for a small tech organization in india and a lot of opinions among the cast.

Machine Intelligence and the Future of Work
January 28, 2018

  Machine Intelligence is going to take over the world, right? We know this? Driverless cars. Computer bosses. All the information that you could ever know captured in a few silicon chips? Can the new generation of workers look ever look forward to hav...

The Scrum Master and the Sous Chef
January 17, 2018

  Can  Scrum Masters learn something from Sous Chefs?  Or Sous Chefs from Scrum Masters?  Both represent a kind of job that is being overlooked in this age.  Skilled.  Managerial.  Professional.  Disciplined.  Yet not quite academic.

How to See the Consumer Electronics Show
January 12, 2018

What should you see at CES? Or perhaps more to the point, how should you see CES? It is a massive show and is not easy to grasp, even when you are standing in the midst of it. In this episode, we bring back our good friend (and in this case,

CES 2018: Automotive Cybersecurity
January 09, 2018

Not only does it have to be good, it has to be secure. That’s the problem. And it’s now the problem with everything. Everything including cars. It’s such an issue, that the ICCE, the Engineering Conference on Consumer Electronics,

Retrospective: CES 2017 & The Trillion Shot Latte
January 04, 2018

The story of the 2017 CES was drones. Drones to deliver packages. Drones to inspect oil pipelines. Drones to follow traffic. Drones to spy on you neighbor. One company offered drones to bring the last remnant of paper mail to beleaguered offices.