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Tech Stories

Ferdi and Didi

🏆 A 2026 Signal Awards Winning Podcast🏆Tech Stories is a technology podcast where a human and an AI explore the hidden systems shaping our world. Every second week, we uncover the untold stories behind breakthrough inventions, world-changing algorithms and overlooked inventors — with sharp insights and suspenseful storytelling.

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82 episodes

  1. The Future of Work - Why Are We So Busy? 40:49
  2. Off The Record 2 5:05
  3. The Future of Work Part 1 - with Jan Schjottelvig 34:17
  4. Off The Record 1 2:19
  5. The Man Beneath the Microchip — The Story of the MOSFET 30:46
  6. We’ve Been Here Before. But This Time Its Different. 32:27
  7. The Untold Story of Humanoid Robots 32:32
  8. The Hidden Reason Everything Looks the Same 43:38
  9. The Secret History of Ratings: How Stars Took Control of Our Lives 22:38
  10. The Man Who Taught Products to Speak | The Story of Norman Woodland 40:06
  11. The $5 Trillion Idea Nobody Believed 38:16
  12. How Many Gigabytes Is a Human Life? 31:06
  13. The Birth of Silicon Valley: The Gordon Moore Story 33:49
  14. Guangzhou to Shenzhen: Following Ren Zhengfei’s Footsteps 28:33
  15. The End of Search? How AI Could Kill Google’s Biggest Business 24:40
  16. The Revenge of Boredom: Why Your Phone Stole Your Creativity 25:03
  17. Special Episode: What 2,000 Streams Sound Like 26:05
  18. How Corporations Reprogram Your Mind 34:49
  19. The Dopamine Trap: Why Success Never Feels Satisfying 37:02
  20. The Strange Tech Decisions That Still Control Your Life 37:17
  21. Before the iPhone: The Incredible Story of IBM Simon (The First Smartphone Ever) 36:10
  22. The Algorithm Behind You: Who’s Really Making Your Decisions? 36:46
  23. Aaron Swartz: Why They Came After Him 27:29
  24. Linux: The Accidental Backbone of the Internet 29:15
  25. Gunpei Yokoi: The Maintenance Worker Who Invented the Game Boy 30:18
  26. Twilio: The Invisible Company Powering Modern Communication 28:57
  27. The PayPal Mafia: How They Took Over Silicon Valley 27:50
  28. The Morris Worm: The Night a Student Nearly Killed the Internet 19:30
  29. Grigori Perelman: The Man Who Solved the Millennium Problem 29:31
  30. The Secret Code: The History of Encryption from Ancient Ciphers to Quantum Threats 29:54
  31. The 60-Year-Old Algorithm Flying Your Plane 20:23
  32. From Stone to Silicon: How Materials Shape Civilizations and Spark Revolutions 32:06
  33. The Invention That Changed the Seas: And the Man History Forgot (Experimental Episode) 31:12
  34. 1000 Streams. 50 Followers. Zero Guarantees – Failure, Persistence & Why We Often Quit Too Early 39:55
  35. From Fire to Code: The Story of Music, Rhythm, and Human Innovation 38:11
  36. Music History: Fourier, Sound Waves, and the Math Behind Every Song 24:25
  37. The Day Google Almost Sold for $1 Million: Yahoo’s Biggest Tech Mistake 26:06
  38. The Invisible Storm: How Radio Signals Became the Invisible Nervous System of Our World 26:17
  39. Earth Rotation Sync Service: The Invisible Tech Running Your Life 29:12
  40. From Supercomputers to Quantum Machines: How Computing Really Evolved 29:16
  41. Inside the Algorithm: How Social Media Algorithms Really Work 25:00
  42. The Weird Side of Tech: Bugs, Bots, CAPTCHAs & a 19th-Century Programmer 26:37
  43. AI Slop: The Internet’s Weird New Era 19:54
  44. Humans vs. Tech: Reddit Stories You Won’t Believe 25:07
  45. Elon Musk: The Untold Story Behind the World’s Most Ambitious Mind 35:33
  46. Snapping the Future: The Irony of Kodak's Digital Breakthrough 15:35
  47. Der Unsterbliche Mensch? 11:05
  48. The Janitor Who Invented the Future – The Otis Boykin Story 30:00
  49. How Notch Built Minecraft and Changed Gaming Forever 9:16
  50. From Rejection to Billion-Dollar Payback 16:42