Pragmatic

The history of measurements has a few surprises. Casey Liss joins John to discuss once and for all Metric and Imperial measurements.

For 9 months now John has been using a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 for work purposes, and Vic's son uses a Pro 3 at College. We go back and forth on the device as both a laptop and a tablet.

The new MacBook Pros come with a new feature Apple call the Touch Bar. We look at whether blending direct and indirect interactions make sense and try to figure out if the Touch Bar is actually a good idea.

Marco and I discuss how the Apple Watch brought us both back to wearing watches and the search for the ideal Watch Band for every use case.

A lot of people love Rollercoasters including the hosts of the show. We look at the history, evolution and revolution of these amazing thrill rides.

It's all about Vic! He takes us through his history of programming for slightly more than 20 minutes.

Weighing up the cycles of driving vs public transport and Windows to Mac and back again.

Noise as a term is widely misused and misunderstood. Carmen joins John to sort out the signal from the noise.

Trains and roads look like they have lots in common but the trade-offs in signalling and network design are completely different, and horrendously inconsistent.

The cause of global warming may be hotly debated, but rising sea levels are a fact. Vic joins John to talk about how fast it's happening and how our cities will need to adapt.

Smart Watches support dynamic, configurable complications but not all are created equal. Russell Ivanovic from Shifty Jelly joins John to see just how complicated it can be.

We are closer than ever to a paperless office, and for John with the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil it's time to actually try and see if it's possible.

What if the superhero Iron Man was real? We look at some of his tech and assess how possible it is.

Apple are pushing Haptics in more of their devices each release. We look at why they are and how they're doing it differently.

We tackle the subtle differences between analogue and digital data transmission and why frequency changes everything.

Pragmatic returns to talk about a recent melding of traditional radio technology and software that are now dominating the telecommunications world.

In this final episode John talks about the making of Pragmatic, highlights, lowlights, criticisms and advice on whether you should have listened to it or any podcasts at all. Then Vic grills John for information.

John tackles how the internet works - the most requested topic as voted by Pragmatic listeners in this, the penultimate episode of the show.

Seth Clifford returns to discuss DRM and the value of entertainment content. We also explore if DRM will someday end.

With four episodes to go Vic chose a topic that was never on the list - the history of programming. We look at five key people in the evolution of programming.