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Oct 9, 2026

AshleyHOST
25:42
I'm seeing the things.
BrittanyHOST
25:43
What I like about John Waters' work, like watching it as a kid, I would get on my Encarta CD disc
AshleyHOST
25:53
and look
BrittanyHOST
25:54
stuff up.
Darren SimpsonHOST
6:11
Ask Jeeves.
Sibs MatiyelaHOST
6:12
Because I remember the only thing I used the computer for was for Encarta.
Sibs MatiyelaHOST
6:16
Was it Encarta? Encarta 95 or something.
Sibs MatiyelaHOST
6:19
Where you could search butterflies and volcanoes.
Darren SimpsonHOST
6:23
It was like for project stuff.
Karen HoltonHOST
60:18
Mm-hmm.
Jehan SattaurGUEST
60:19
And, um, you'd be better to go back in 1992 and get an, a copy of the Encarta [laughs] encyclopedias.
Jehan SattaurGUEST
60:28
You'd be better off.
Jehan SattaurGUEST
60:29
But, uh, two things for you.
GregHOST
27:16
Like, all, I'm going to just, like, hinky all these thing, like, sites you used to go on that are just, like, different-
GrantHOST
27:21
What was the one thing called, fucking, you put the disc in, it was like, get, no, Antarctica.
GregHOST
27:27
Aye, aye.
GrantHOST
27:27
Huh? Was it called Antarctica?
GregHOST
27:29
Uh, A- Anaka or some- Uh, th- that's one of them.
GregHOST
27:32
That's one of them.
GregHOST
27:32
Hold on.
GrantHOST
27:33
What was that called, the game where it would, like, you'd maybe look up things about tigers or penguins or-
Tom SadlerGUEST
27:15
I've told my wife that she's not happy, but he has a really good book called The Art of Creativity, and I think it translates perfectly into data and AI is the best thing you can create is when you create something for yourself, because when you try and create something for everyone, it creates zero value for anyone.
Tom SadlerGUEST
27:30
and that's fine like they're going to be people that find whatever you develop useful like it'd be random someone's created something in the most random department but then someone else finds a use for it and then they sort of adjust it ever so slightly and for me that is the future right we're seeing that change in sas i believe from my perspective that sas is going to change ultimately as well as you're going to get the skeleton like the infrastructure behind it but people are going to develop stuff that go around it we've heard horror stories of people using bigger ERPs and they've messed around with it so much they were told like yeah you gotta buy it again but people want personalization they don't want a one-size-fits-all what I do like I'm a team of 18 I'm the only one in the UK but we've got a team 18 globally and we all work very differently we work well together but then someone makes something and then I'll adjust it and vice versa and you know there'll be different variations like on what you find valuable My funny one was I found I made an LLM router, but I made it for Encarta 96 to show the young people I work with what I grew up with.
Tom SadlerGUEST
28:32
And they're like, what's Encarta 96? I didn't have the Internet when I was growing up.
Tom SadlerGUEST
28:38
That was my Internet.
Tom SadlerGUEST
28:40
But it's also I'm finding Some of the older generations are coming up with very novel way of doing things because we grew up without the internet.
NathHOST
2:11
Like I can look at, I could see Emma's whole multiple choice and she wouldn't even know.
Emma ChowHOST
2:16
Do you remember Encarta, that CD?
NathHOST
2:20
No.
Emma ChowHOST
2:21
It was the next step after the real-life encyclopedia.
Meg MansellHOST
10:22
[laughs] Okay, so Clint, you are getting information from something, and you're paying a subscription now.
DanHOST
10:28
Have you got into Encarta 95?
Meg MansellHOST
10:30
[laughs]
ClintHOST
10:31
No.
Meg MansellHOST
10:31
No.
ClintHOST
10:31
It's new.
ClintHOST
10:32
No, it's much better than Encarta.
ClintHOST
10:34
If I have a problem with anything-
NathHOST
36:44
I could see Emma's whole multiple choice and she wouldn't even know.
Emma ChowHOST
36:48
Do you remember Encarta, that CD? Encarta, no.
NathHOST
36:53
It
Emma ChowHOST
36:53
was the next step after the real-life encyclopedia.
Alex FacianeHOST
58:39
You're right.
Alex FacianeHOST
58:39
Like the Cheesecake Factory looks like Encarta.
Alex FacianeHOST
58:42
If you're like if there was like if Encarta was the back rooms.
Alex FacianeHOST
58:46
Yeah.
Alex FacianeHOST
58:47
If Encarta was the back rooms, that's you're like in a dream of the wizard from the Wizard of Oz.
Alex FacianeHOST
58:53
It's fucking crazy in there.
Alex FacianeHOST
58:55
There was even a paint color, like Matt said earlier, called Mummy Brown, which again was ground up mummies that you were spreading all over the inside of your house.
Daniel PinkHOST
22:33
Now, some of you might look at this and say, "Hmm, that sounds nice, but it's utopian." And I say, "Nope.
Daniel PinkHOST
22:42
I have proof." In the mid 1990s, Microsoft started a, an encyclopedia called Encarta.
Daniel PinkHOST
22:48
They had deployed all the right incentives, all the right incentives.
Daniel PinkHOST
22:51
They paid professionals to write and edit thousands of articles.

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