Pilot: Truth, Trust and Technology

In our pilot special, we start with an app that tells you it's improving your photo but actually creates a new photo that is almost - but not entirely - like the one you took. And we end up proving how Science Fiction acts as an immune system for our society, and why we can trust absolutely nothing. Well, nothing but Sci Fi.

How did we get there?

Time to listen and find out!

Direct link - Listen through BuzzSprout or you favorite podcast app: https://www.buzzsprout.com/746810/2923156

Hosts: Naomi Karmi, Talya Vaish, Avner Shahar Kashtan

Links:

• Enhance app: https://letsenhance.io/

• Deep Image Prior: https://dmitryulyanov.github.io/deep_image_prior

Credits: Theme Song - Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive By The Prehab Messia, under the CCbyNCSA licence, Source: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Prefab_Messiahs/Keep_Your_Stupid_Dreams_Alive

• "Almost, but not entirely, unlike tea" - from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy By Douglas Adams, Radio Series - 1978, BBC Radio World Service.

• "I don't Know What's Real Anymore" - by Dreaming Of Ghosts, 2017.

• "All The News That's Fit To Sing" - by David Rovics, 2014.

• "Another Brick in the Wall - Part 2" - by Pink Floyd, 1979.

• Jessica Jones - Sound bite from season 1 intro - Netflix, 2015.