Porn has changed dramatically over the decades and the money involved has skyrocketed. Porn has been the silent engine for change for the internet as it represents a huge amount of money despite being mostly not discussed in public. Mark and Jeff discuss the impact that porn has had on shaping the internet.

A research group is predicting the rise of Superhuman AI and what the implications are for the world. There are two paths, a dystopian one and a utopian one. The timing is closer than everyone thinks and the consequences will reshape our world. What's more disturbing is that this group has a track record for their predictions previously and most of them were correct. Mark and Jeff discuss this in detail.

Carol Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist that published information about the Cambridge Analytics data breach and reporting related to Brexit. She was hit with a SLAPP (Strategic lawsuits against public participation) lawsuit, about her Brexit reporting, specifically related to a TED talk she did. Although she won most of the case, she did lose an aspect on appeal and ended up having to pay damages to a billionaire she discussed. She is now in the news again because she has published a new TED talk about the current digital coup going on