RADIO FREE KASLO, September 26, 2025

Tech can be wonderful, right?

For example, Apple's new AirPods, when enabled by an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence (Apple's AI), have a feature called Live Translation — and that's just what they deliver. Wonder what on earth that taxi driver in Paris is saying to you? Not if you have these new AirPods in your ears!

Inspired by an article about this clearly positive new technology, host Randy Morse found himself contemplating the darker side of tech — specifically, social media algorithms that reward anger and vitriol,  the stampede among AI leaders to see who will first develop Super Intelligence, the emergence of what Morse refers to as "Structural Nihilism," and the inevitable comparison to the chilling thesis of that classic film directed by the Wachowskis, The Matrix — that humanity is a virus that must be eradicated.

Today's show is rescued from utter darkness and despair(!), by Morse's anecdote about love blossoming at the recent Argenta Fall Faire, and the fabulous music of the jazz duo of Elizabeth Shepherd and Michael Occhipinti (aka ES:MO), with 17 JUNO nominations to their name, who this week performed twice at Kaslo's historic Langham Theatre to appreciative crowds.

Hope springs eternal at Radio Free Kaslo!