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Ferdi and Didi 74 - The Secret History of Ratings: How Stars Took Control of Our Lives

Tech Stories is a technology podcast where a human and an AI explore the hidden systems shaping our world. Each week, we uncover the untold stories behind breakthrough inventions, failed startups, world-changing algorithms, and overlooked inventors — with sharp insights and suspenseful storytelling.

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The Secret History of Ratings: How Stars Took Control of Our Lives

The Man Who Taught Products to Speak | The Story of Norman Woodland

The $5 Trillion Idea Nobody Believed

How Many Gigabytes Is a Human Life?

The Birth of Silicon Valley: The Gordon Moore Story

Guangzhou to Shenzhen: Following Ren Zhengfei’s Footsteps

The End of Search? How AI Could Kill Google’s Biggest Business

The Revenge of Boredom: Why Your Phone Stole Your Creativity

Special Episode: What 2,000 Streams Sound Like

How Corporations Reprogram Your Mind

The Dopamine Trap: Why Success Never Feels Satisfying

The Strange Tech Decisions That Still Control Your Life

Before the iPhone: The Incredible Story of IBM Simon (The First Smartphone Ever)

The Algorithm Behind You: Who’s Really Making Your Decisions?

Aaron Swartz: Why They Came After Him

Linux: The Accidental Backbone of the Internet

Gunpei Yokoi: The Maintenance Worker Who Invented the Game Boy

Twilio: The Invisible Company Powering Modern Communication

The PayPal Mafia: How They Took Over Silicon Valley

The Morris Worm: The Night a Student Nearly Killed the Internet

Grigori Perelman: The Man Who Solved the Millennium Problem

The Secret Code: The History of Encryption from Ancient Ciphers to Quantum Threats

The 60-Year-Old Algorithm Flying Your Plane

From Stone to Silicon: How Materials Shape Civilizations and Spark Revolutions

The Invention That Changed the Seas: And the Man History Forgot (Experimental Episode)

1000 Streams. 50 Followers. Zero Guarantees – Failure, Persistence & Why We Often Quit Too Early

From Fire to Code: The Story of Music, Rhythm, and Human Innovation

Music History: Fourier, Sound Waves, and the Math Behind Every Song

The Day Google Almost Sold for $1 Million: Yahoo’s Biggest Tech Mistake

The Invisible Storm: How Radio Signals Became the Invisible Nervous System of Our World

Earth Rotation Sync Service: The Invisible Tech Running Your Life

From Supercomputers to Quantum Machines: How Computing Really Evolved

Inside the Algorithm: How Social Media Algorithms Really Work

The Weird Side of Tech: Bugs, Bots, CAPTCHAs & a 19th-Century Programmer

AI Slop: The Internet’s Weird New Era

Humans vs. Tech: Reddit Stories You Won’t Believe

Elon Musk: The Untold Story Behind the World’s Most Ambitious Mind

Snapping the Future: The Irony of Kodak's Digital Breakthrough

Der Unsterbliche Mensch?

The Janitor Who Invented the Future – The Otis Boykin Story

How Notch Built Minecraft and Changed Gaming Forever

From Rejection to Billion-Dollar Payback

The Quiet Geniuses Behind the iPhone You’ve Never Heard Of

Time to reflect

Cones, Tape, and Revolt: The Human Uprising Against Machines

Hooked by Design Part 2: The Content That Watches You Back

Hooked by Design: How Social Media Hijacks Your Mind

Best New Tech: How AI and Tech Will Transform the Future of Sports

The Strange Story of Clippy

The Quiet Invention That Changed Everything