Free buses, childcare, broadband and housing; who decides what makes a universal basic right? This week, Matt and Roshan discuss Universal Basic Services and begin a two-part conversation on social resilience, post scarcity abundance, and the techno utopians battling to shape and profit from the future.

Free buses, childcare, broadband and housing; who decides what makes a universal basic right? This week, Matt and Roshan discuss Universal Basic Services and begin a two-part conversation on social resilience, post scarcity abundance, and the techno utopians battling to shape and profit from the future.

Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and analyst, record breaking developers, the dark-web hackers and the “crazy ones” as they give you an insight to how the world will change. Tech Talk helps you to breakdown the geeky jargons and complex codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.

Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and analyst, record breaking developers, the dark-web hackers and the “crazy ones” as they give you an insight to how the world will change. Tech Talk helps you to breakdown the geeky jargons and complex codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.

Tech Talk

How does the Internet work? To be honest we don't know either. But on Tech Talk, we deconstruct the relationship between humans and technology and understand how it shapes our business and life.

MSP358. Back To Basic: The Universal Town Square

We’re speeding around the Internet with Dictonary.com’s word of the year for 2026: Maxxing.

From its origins in gaming culture and its adoption by underground online cultures, maxxing has emerged as a selfimprovement trend with very few grammatical limits. From looksmaxxing to fibremaxxing to nonnamaxxing, if you have a noun you can maxx it.

We’re speeding around the Internet with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Dictonary.com">Dictonary.com</a>’s word of the year for 2026: Maxxing.From its origins in gaming culture and its adoption by underground online cultures, maxxing has emerged as a selfimprovement trend with very few grammatical limits. From looksmaxxing to fibremaxxing to nonnamaxxing, if you have a noun you can maxx it.

MSP380. SuperMaxxing: The Era Of Endless Enhancement

A PwC survey of more than 4,400 CEOs found 56% saw neither higher revenue nor lower costs from AI, even as some research puts AI adoption in Malaysia as high as 86%. We talk about why AI isn’t paying off for most businesses, whether scattered data or old processes are to blame, and what owners should fix and check before trusting AI to act on their behalf.

A PwC survey of more than 4,400 CEOs found 56% saw neither higher revenue nor lower costs from AI, even as some research puts AI adoption in Malaysia as high as 86%. We talk about why AI isn’t paying off for most businesses, whether scattered data or old processes are to blame, and what owners should fix and check before trusting AI to act on their behalf.

Why AI Isn’t Paying Off for Most Businesses

What happens if AI self-replicates, infecting and embedding itself in every computer, network and system it encounters? 

Yes, that is the starting point of The Terminator franchise. Worryingly, the debate around AI has already shifted from ‘what can it do?’ to ‘can we shut it down?’. From recursive development to alignment to control, Matt and Kishan look for the magical kill switch to restore a Tolkienesque balance to the world.

What happens if AI self-replicates, infecting and embedding itself in every computer, network and system it encounters? Yes, that is the starting point of The Terminator franchise. Worryingly, the debate around AI has already shifted from ‘what can it do?’ to ‘can we shut it down?’. From recursive development to alignment to control, Matt and Kishan look for the magical kill switch to restore a Tolkienesque balance to the world.

MSP358. Back To Basic: The Universal Town Square

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