This week we freak out about the future of wearable technology! (http://bit.ly/1hg4h7Q)

Technology consultant Sarah Slocum loves social media and her Google Glass, she wears them everywhere. But when she walked into Molotov's, a bar on Haight Street in San Francisco, she discovered that not everyone shares her love for wearable tech.

Also, your host makes his annual pilgrimage to SXSWi and ends up designing wearables at a surreal Hack Day. We also hear from Shingy, AOL's Digital Prophet. He believes wearables will allow us to have it both ways: we can be both digital and human.
 
**This episode features elements that were recorded binaurally. If you listen with a pair of headphones or a LiveAudio enabled device, you will experience three dimensional sound - it will be like you are there.** 


Music from this episode:

"Billy (Starsky Instrumental)" — Tha Silent Partner (http://bit.ly/1fUCZTA) 

"big" "big (2)" "big (5)" — klimperei, from the album "big & bang" (http://klimperei.bandcamp.com) You really should buy some records from this genius! 

"Food of the Range" — Electric Sound of Joy, from the "Food of the Range EP" 

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