The Pomp Podcast
INSANE Examples of Tech Invading Our Lives | Kevin Clancy
- Self-driving cars and surveillance: Waymo's cameras detected minors with a paintball gun, called police, and disabled the vehicle—raising questions about privacy, consent, and who decides what behavior warrants intervention.
- Flock cameras and license plate readers: Expanding surveillance infrastructure in neighborhoods enables both crime prevention and wrongful accusations; one woman was nearly charged for a package theft based solely on location data despite having evidence of innocence.
- Youth sports monetization: Parents spend $5,000–$10,000+ annually on activities like dance, soccer, and baseball; private equity involvement has inflated costs while kids remain largely indifferent to the commercialization.
- Body camera footage: Police body cams have revealed both misconduct and legitimate danger; footage from a subway sword incident showed an officer genuinely reluctant to use force, countering narratives that vilify law enforcement.
- Housing and affordability crisis: A $1 million salary in New York City leaves little after taxes and housing; home ownership is increasingly unaffordable for younger generations despite being marketed as the marker of success.
- AI in medicine and everyday life: ChatGPT caught a radiologist's misdiagnosis of a high-risk twin pregnancy; AI also powers sports analytics, robot vacuums, and emerging humanoid robots—each raising questions about dependency and hacking risks.