Visionaries, Rebels and Machines

By Jamie Dobson

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What do frog legs, cloud computing, and failure have in common?

They’re all part of the messy, magnificent story of how we got here.


I’m Jamie Dobson - author of Visionaries, Rebels and Machines — and in this podcast, I’ll take you on a journey through the ideas, accidents, and breakthroughs that shaped our digital world.


From Edison’s lightbulb moment to the birth of the cloud…

From the engineers who fled war to build machines of peace…

To the technologists today trying to teach machines to think.


This isn’t just the history of tech.

It’s the story of creativity, chaos — and the strange, beautiful way we fail our way forward.


Each episode, we’ll unpack the big themes that shaped humanity’s extraordinary journey from electrification to cloudification.


So if you’ve ever wondered how the web got weird,

why management matters more than machines,

or what the hell the cloud really is...

...you’re in the right place.


This is Visionaries, Rebels and Machines.

Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts and let’s take the long view of the future.


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Episode Date
The Accidental Invention That Made Intel Unstoppable
Jun 11, 2026
Andy Grove's Nightmare: How Peter Drucker Saved Intel
May 29, 2026
The Cephalopod Problem
Apr 23, 2026
Survival Was the First System
Apr 02, 2026
Claude Shannon and the Creation of the Information Age
Mar 19, 2026
The Generative AI Bubble Is Repeating a Much Darker History Than You Think
Mar 05, 2026
How cutting edge technology saved AT&T with a competitive advantage (and what that means in the age of Gen AI)
Jan 29, 2026
Edison and Tesla: Visionaries in Conflict
Dec 23, 2025
Edison’s Lightbulb: The Invention that Shouldn’t Have Worked
Dec 11, 2025
Edison Made LIGHT Bulbs Extremely Profitable But Investors HATE Him?
Nov 27, 2025
The Greatest Patent Heist: What the Telephone Dispute Teaches About Innovation
Nov 13, 2025
The Patent Heist that Defined Modern Tech Leadership
Oct 30, 2025
What God Hath Wrought
Oct 15, 2025
I Sing the Body Electric
Oct 15, 2025
Visionaries, Rebels and Machines Trailer
Jul 25, 2025