Visionaries, Rebels and Machines

<p>From a failed digital watch to the philosophy that would remake modern management, this is the story of Andy Grove learning to lead when neither he nor Intel had a blueprint. It traces how fear, flawed products...

<p>From fleeing war-torn Europe to walking into the heart of Silicon Valley, this is a story of survival turning into something much bigger. It traces how one outsider navigated identity, ambition, and opportunity to...

<p>A boy survives war and oppression, making impossible decisions just to stay alive. At the same time, a quiet breakthrough in technology is about to reshape the world. Their paths are worlds apart, yet they’re closer...

<p>Before computers were machines, they were people crunching numbers by hand and making mistakes that shaped history. This episode uncovers how a scattered set of ideas about code, logic, and machines finally clicked...

<p>History is messier and darker than your textbooks ever told you, and this finale pulls no punches. It connects the telegraph, racism, and propaganda to the tech and algorithms shaping your world right now. If you...

<p>The telephone almost failed, and one stubborn manager is the reason it didn’t. Discover how Theodore Vail turned chaos into strategy, replacing lawyers with engineers and inventing a culture that lasted decades. This...

<p>The legendary rivalry between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla makes for great internet drama, but almost none of it is true. In this bonus episode, Jamie Dobson digs into the historical record to separate fact from...

<p>A young inventor arrives in New York with almost nothing and decides to outshine the brightest mind of his era. What follows is a clash of egos, experiments, and shocking twists that shaped the future of electricity...

<p>A scruffy kid with a knack for telegraphs becomes the most famous inventor in America. A simple question about light turns into a race to rewrite the future. Hear how Thomas Edison went from hustling newspapers on...

<p>A scrunched-up letter pulled from a wastebasket. A race to the patent office with only hours to spare. In this episode, Jamie Dobson unpacks the explosive courtroom drama that decided who really invented the...

<p>Discover how a sickly young Scot, sent to Canada to die, ended up inventing the telephone and changing the world. Was Alexander Graham Bell a genius inventor or just a lucky teacher in love with the right student...

<p>A young artist loses everything and stumbles onto an idea that could make messages outrun horses and ships. Rival inventors, shaky demos, and a code of dots and dashes turn doubt into worldwide buzz. Hear how one...

<p>What if the real story behind Frankenstein began not in fiction, but in a London prison with a corpse and a few jolts of electricity? In this episode, Jamie Dobson uncovers how a strange 18th-century experiment led...

<p><br></p><p>What do frog legs, cloud computing, and failure have in common?</p><p>They’re all part of the messy, magnificent story of how we got here.</p><br><p>I’m Jamie Dobson - author of Visionaries, Rebels and...