Spawn of Sponcon
On today\u2019s episode we travel to the near-future of advertising. Welcome to a future in which you can sign up to be a brand ambassador, and get paid for every time you mention a product in conversation. Simply download the app, and your phone will listen to your every word waiting to hear brand names, and pay you some money every time you mention one.\xa0\nGuests:\nDeborah Dahl, speech technology expert and principal of Conversational Technologies\nLee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\nLindsey Webber, writer, editor and cohost of the podcast Who? Weekly\nBobby Finger, writer at Jezebel and cohost of the podcast Who? Weekly\nKristen Strader, campaign coordinator for Public Citizen\u2019s Commerical Alert program\n\U0001f680 Further reading and source notes can be found here \U0001f680\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices