Airing on Tuesday, March 3, 2015: The battle to be the smartest smart phone in the smart pay world. Apple is there. Now comes Samsung with its new GalaxyS6 with Samsung Pay. And, it could have an edge. Game on. We’ll also talk with Roger Cheng, Executive Editor at CNET, about new products at Mobile World Congress, happening in Barcelona this week. And PBS Newshour correspondent Miles O’Brien joins us to talk about prosthetics technology. O’Brien had his arm amputated following an injury while he was on assignment last year.

Airing on Monday, March 2, 2015: Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are on today’s agenda at an annual conference hosted by Coursera, a major online course provider. They will likely discuss the growth of corporate MOOCs. We find out if MOOCs have become less about transforming higher education and more about helping already educated workers get ahead and boosting the company’s bottom line? Next up is Alison Griswold, staff writer at Slate, to talk about Venmo’s security problems. And then we are joined by Ted Rappaport, director of NYU WIRELESS – he speaks with us about the development of 5G technology and wireless internet cell phone plans.   

Airing on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015: The FCC has approved new internet rules, ushering in net neutrality. First up is Susan Crawford, Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, to talk about the FCC’s vote on Thursday. Next we take a look at why only a third of people in the U.S. have chip and pin credit cards – a system widely used in other countries. And, for this week’s Silicon Tally, we are joined by Leo Laporte, host of the podcast, “This Week in Tech.”     

Airing on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015: Today, the FCC will vote on net neutrality. We speak with Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University, who coined the term “network neutrality,” ahead of the vote this evening. And, for this week’s edition of Back to Back to the Future Part II, we are joined by  Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Chief Technologist at Center for Democracy & Technology –  he talks with Ben about fingerprint scanning technology.   

Airing on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk about a sex discrimination suit in Silicon Valley involving the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins which opens another window on complaints that women are treated unequally in the tech world. We’ll also talk to Amanda Lotz, Associate Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Michigan, about why cable companies aren’t worried about cord cutters. And Steve Gannon, one of the authors selected for the Kindle Scouts program, talks about being an author on Amazon.  

Airing on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015: Comcast, the country’s  largest cable operator reports its earnings today. But the merger with Time Warner is still hanging in the balance? We’ll talk about how that’s going. Next, we have Nitasha Tikku, senior writer at The Verge, on the Unicorn Startup Explosion, how it affects us and where companies could fail. And then we speak with Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain about his open letter to Prime Minister Cameron explaining why banning encrypted messaging apps is a bad idea. 

Airing on Monday, February 23, 2015: YouTube is launching a “YouTube for kids” app. In part, it’s a response to parents who want to be able to let their kids surf YouTube’s video content safely. But it’s also an enormous money making opportunity. We take a look at the market for kid-friendly media platforms. Next up is Chris Schlitt, a Pebble app developer, to talk about what features he’d like to see in the new Pebble smartwatch, which is rumored to be launching on Tuesday. We also speak with Will Oremus, senior tech writer for Slate, about why Snapchat’s user interface is so hard to use.   

Airing on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015: Cyber crime has been in the news a lot lately. It’s become a big enough problem that the White House is hosting summits on it, and even establishing a brand new agency to fight it. Today, we speak with Maria Tcherni, assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven, about the rise of cybercrime compared to other types of property theft. Next up is our segment from our series on Hollywood vs Silicon Valley – we talk with Todd Wagner, co-founder of Broadcast.com and co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, about rethinking the Hollywood distribution model. For this week’s Silicon Tally, we have Janet Vertesi, a sociologist and historian of science and technology at Princeton.     

Airing on Thursday, February 19, 2015: The Apple Watch is almost here. It’s expected to be released in April. We speak with Ryan Martin, a wearable technology analyst for 451 Research, on the watch’s looming launch. Today, on our Hollywood vs Silicon Valley coverage – we talk with Charles Forman, co-founder of the gaming company OMGPOP, about bringing tech to the screenwriting process and whether or not the balance is tipping in favor of Silicon Valley, and we also talk with VidCon founder and YouTube star Hank Green about the difference between being Internet-famous and Hollywood-famous.