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Hello wonderful Patrons!  Many of you may remember back when we were doing the show in the Before Times, we would often have Special Guest Episodes, featuring bonus content just for you!  We would bring in a guest and ask them all the same question: What's concerning you right now?

Well, we're bringing back guest episodes this week, with none other than Tom Merritt from Daily Tech News Show as our first guest!  We are excited to have him, but that whole "What's concerning you right now?" question seems pretty dumb.  Because, like, we know.  We all know.

So, we thought, why not go to you, the Patrons, and ask for question ideas? 

What is something you'd like to hear us discuss with Tom that fits in the context of the show?  Obviously, Tom is a tech and consumer electronics expert, but we don't want to ask him about his latest cell phone recommendation.  Something closer to the themes we usually tackle here on We Have Concerns.

Leave your suggestions here in the comments or email us at wehaveconcernsshow@gmail.com.

Thanks for helping and thanks for you support!

Comments

Whaines

These were my favorite episodes in the before times, thanks for bringing them back! I would still love to hear what's concerning Tom now outside of politics/pandemic without us feeding him a topic though.

ALeFebvre

I mean... It sounds like the place to ask about Arduinos, but you probably want something a little deeper than that?

Adrian Gonzales

How will a global pandemic change technology for the future? Usage, design, and implementation?

Mike Arrison

With the advancements of the last 20 years, this already was a loaded question, but especially after the events of the last 6 months, what role does he see mobile tech playing in the course of the next decade and how does he see the tech evolving?

Jason P Martin

I'd love to hear Tom's current take on the likeliness of the Singularity and if he is looking forward to it

Luke Johnson

Where does Tom find his inspiration for his book ideas? I’m sure his daytime tech job comes into play but how much?

Shawn Mitchell

Tom, are you familiar with the musician Old John Smokey? You two have a striking resemblance.

Shawn Mitchell

Which recent advancement in technology will most likely be the catalyst to the downfall of humanity?

Anonymous

What does he think about this AI robot that’s starring in an upcoming $70,000,000 budget movie? And what does he think it means for the future of robot actors replacing humans?

Anonymous

Well. I've been trying online board games (ticket to ride, concordia, etc.) with my board game friends given the uh context. Given that people are not going to want to share meeples and the like for many moons, how far off are we from holographic tabletop board games. I'm talking Dejarik. Maybe with consoles so I can be 2 metres away. The people want to know.

Tara Berry

What science-y thing have you learned lately? Or made you excited?

Anonymous

Knowing that Tom co-hosts a book club podcast, what has he been reading to take his mind off his concerns for the last few months?

Thomas Bickley

This was pretty much going to be my suggestion as well. I think the original question worked really well, because it more-or-less gave the guest carte blanche to bring to the table whatever topic _they_ were interested in talking about, so something like this that's also really open-ended seems like a good idea to me.

Anonymous

Tom, if you could time travel when would you go?

Anonymous

Is he #TeamDadJokes or not?

Howard Yermish

How about questions around the ethical use of facial recognition technologies and how it might potentially relate to “pre-crimes”?

Anonymous

What concerns are all the obvious concerns concerningly distracting us from?

Eric Metzung

With everyone using Zoom and other like technology to interact with friends and conduct business, what are the next steps in these platforms? Will we see a more rapid move towards VR to make these interactions more life like?

Anonymous

What future advancement of tech has you most concerned for the future of humanity/tech journalism industry, day to day life? What future advancement of tech gets you most excited?

Anonymous

Now that sports are "coming back" there was a story about a Finnish entrepreneur wearing an Oura Ring (https://ouraring.com/) that was able to detect "sickness". Was wondering if there are any other possible wearables that can/do the same kind of measuring. FTA https://www.ft.com/content/e3ab6110-b871-4cb4-abec-b195c0a88a9c Covid-detecting ‘smart rings’ to be trialled by staff at Las Vegas resort "The Oura ring’s Covid-19-detection capabilities were first discovered in March when a Finnish entrepreneur, Petri Hollmen, received an alert on the device’s app one morning that his “readiness level” was just 54, versus 80-90 on a typical day. Having just travelled to Tyrol, Austria — then a coronavirus hotspot — he decided to get tested and was surprised when he received a positive result, despite not having experienced any symptoms."