Future Tense

Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, a "Journal of the Digital Age," Future Tense keeps pace with the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules, from electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms.

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02-10-12 Marketplace Tech Report

Imagine if your car insurance company and your in-car navigation device started talking to each other. Progressive and other insurance companies in the U.S. have been playing with this general idea of tracking you while you drive -- and it's already happening in the U.K. Also, The Pew Center for the Internet and American life says adults are mostly happy when they’re using social networks.

02-09-12 Marketplace Tech Report

A confession right up front: Apple has not confirmed that it is, in fact, working on an Apple-branded television. Maybe it's not. Maybe all the rumors and reports we've heard are just hogwash. But on the other hand, when you see a whole ton of those reports coming in, you begin to think there's some fire underneath all that smoke. What could be in store? Also, Google has a new focus group program.

02-08-12 Marketplace Tech Report

Path is a relatively new social network that has garnered a lot of critical praise. But it turns out the iPhone app has been gathering up a user's address book information and transmitting it, unencrypted, back to Path. And Path isn't the only app in the world to use your information. Also, the booming app economy is a jobs bonanza.

02-07-12 Marketplace Tech Report

We already have a company that offers streaming movies and TV shows as well as offering DVDs and Blu-Rays. It's Netflix. So why, then, is Verizon and Redbox teaming up to offer the same thing? Also, some Girl Scout troops are trying out mobile credit card payments for Girl Scout cookie sales.

02-06-12 Marketplace Tech Report

Wael Ghonim's memoir, "Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater than the People In Power," arrives about a year after the uprisings in Egypt. Ghonim was a Google marketing executive when the Egyptian uprising began, and he took to the Internet to call Egyptians to action. He tells his story of what happened in that tumultuous time. Also in this program, shipments of smartphones surpassed shipments of PCs last year.