2025-11-22 –, Plenary Space
What happens when you connect 1920s technology to that of the 2020s? This talk! It's equal parts nostalgia project, technical curiosity, and bleeding-edge research all in one. And along the way we'll all experience what we've gained - and lost - in our rush toward automated everything.
In this admittedly gimmicky experiment, I chronicle bridging 100 years of communication technology: from human-powered switchboards and analogue circuits to modern natural language processing. Includes adventures into testing the components on these devices, developing a digital interface to analogue signals, then developer a virtual operator to simulate what might be the closest modern thing to a 1920s telephone experience.
Anyone
Red Team @ GitLab. Loves finding intersections between interesting topics and sharing knowledge. Usually either making, growing or deconstructing something.
Previous talks include "My Kids Hack Me and It's Awesome", "Beyond 'Delete My Browser History': Infosec After Death", "An Approximate History of Accuracy", and an absolutely absurd maths lecture delivered on aerial silks called "Floating Points".