Click Here
Saturdays at 2 p.m. on IPR News Radio.
How to listen
Dina Temple-Raston might be best known to public radio listeners for her coverage of terrorism during her 15 years on NPR.
People used to tell her that the moment they heard her voice on "Morning Edition," they knew something bad had happened in the world.
"What they were expecting from me is to put it in a context so that they could understand it and know 'This should be something I worry about,'" or not, she said. "And we have that same sensibility with this show."
The show is "Click Here," now on the radio after years as a wildly successful podcast, earning 200,000 downloads a month and two national Edward R. Murrow awards.
It tries to demystify tech, show how it affects our lives and explain how we can make it work for us (instead of the other way around).
"If you understand something — like tech, like AI, like machine learning, like satellites and GPS — if we can explain it to you, then it's not so scary when you hear about these other things happening," Temple-Raston said. "Maybe what we are is trying to be a show that reassures people that tech isn't something that's going to take over. Tech is something that's going to work with us, and we're going to show you how."
The first radio episode of "Click Here" is titled "Tech in the Wild," and includes stories about how AI is used to listen to whale conversations, a viral forecast "that reminded us why humans still matter," and looks at how much power smart machines use. Listen Saturday at 2 p.m. on IPR News Radio.
"Click Here" replaces "The Splendid Table" in IPR's programming lineup. Find episodes of that program here.
