Google Buys Fitbit, and Twitter Bans Political Ads

Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss Google’s announcement that it’s buying Fitbit and what this tells us about the future of wearable computing. Later in the show, they discuss how Twitter and Facebook are handling political advertising. Some Recent Picks: “Agent Running in the Field” (by John Le Carre) Big Little Lies, season 2 (HBO) “The Meritocracy Trap” (by Daniel Markovits) Conan O’Brien talks to Stephen Colbert (podcast, starting from 26:00) Parasite (movie) You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.