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Business
12:20 pm
Wed January 30, 2013

Ross Nerds Out With Slate Magazine’s Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias
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Matthew Yglesias is a business and economics correspondent for Slate Magazine. In March he published his latest book titled "The Rent is Too Damn High." Today Ross talks to him about everything from Patty Murray to Spotify to policies on immigration.

Cloud Replaces Box
5:51 pm
Tue January 29, 2013

Microsoft Launches New Office Subscription Service

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A promotional photograph of Steve Ballmer for the new Office software from Microsoft
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In the old days, when Microsoft Corp. unveiled new software you might have gone to the store, paid for it once, and brought it home in a box.

But with Microsoft’s new service unveiled Tuesday, Office 365, the box is gone. It’s been replaced by a digital subscription that allows you to get almost everything you need from the web. In a promotional video, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the service offers a “complete office in the cloud,” which he touted as a major leap forward.

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Personal Records
12:40 pm
Tue January 29, 2013

Preserving Personal Information

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Wire recording, Gould Family, approximately late 1950s, from the collection of Seattle architect Carl Gould (who designed Suzzallo Library and many of the buildings on campus). From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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Wax cylinder recording (1929) from the papers of Melville Jacobs, an anthropologist at UW. The recordings are from various Pacific Northwest indigenous tribes. From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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Information storage gets smaller: Bound book verses Zip drive. From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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A vinyl recording from the collection of poet Theodore Roethke, 1950. From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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Recording of poem “I Think of a Flower” by Laurence Binyon. From the collection of poet Theodore Roethke (1950). From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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The same recording migrated to reel-to-reel tape in the 1970s. From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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Storage further migrated again to cassette tape. From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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The Special Collections Archive in the basement of Allen Library. From the Special Collections Archive, Allen Library, UW.
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What kind of record are we leaving behind for the next generation? Physical objects get damaged in floods and fires, or simply get moldy in the basement. Think you're better off going digital? Think again. Hard drives crash. Compact discs deteriorate. And cloud-based computing companies get shuttered or go out of business.

Our personal records seem so vulnerable. It leaves one wondering: Are we leaving any kind of a lasting record? Ross talks with archivist John Bolcer and a digital media expert Cathy Marshall. Do you want to protect something of yours for the future? Today's guests will tell you how.

Driverless Cars
12:00 pm
Tue January 29, 2013

In The Future, Cars Will Drive You!

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One of Google's self-driving cars in Mountain View, Calif., May 2012.
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Drunk drivers, speeding tickets and parking could be a thing of the past. Google is developing driverless cars that use sensors to transport people safely and efficiently to any location. They claim driverless cars will reduce traffic accidents by 90 percent. Does it sound like something from science fiction? Ross finds out by talking to Forbes Magazine contributor Chunka Mui.

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