đ 2026 Signal Awards Winner.
Tech Stories is a technology podcast where a human and an AI explore the hidden systems shaping our world. Every second week, we uncover the untold stories behind breakthrough inventions, world-changing algorithms and overlooked inventors â with sharp insights and suspenseful storytelling.
For over a century, we've been trying to make humans work like machines. Now, we're spending billions trying to make machines work like humans.
How did we get here? And what does this strange reversal mean for the future of work?
In this episode of Tech Stories, we travel from Frederick Taylor's stopwatch and Henry Ford's assembly lines to the revolutionary thinking behind Toyota's production systemâand finally to the age of humanoid robots and artificial intelligence.
Joining me is Jan Schjottelvig, a special guest who challenged the way I think about efficiency, leadership, and what it really means to put humans at the center of work.
Together, we explore how technology has shaped the workplace, why efficiency sometimes comes at a human cost, and whether we're asking the right questions about the machines we're building.
Because perhaps the most important question is what kind of life we're trying to create.
Tech Stories â Humans vs. Machines | Part 1
Special Guest:
Jan Schjottelvig
Leadership Expert, Advisor, Author, Speaker & Workshop Facilitator, Improvement System Specialist.
Inspires and supports Leaders in complex organisational environments to achieve high performance.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-schjottelvig-mba-gaicd-a52655262/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-schjottelvig-mba-gaicd-a52655262/)
Tech Stories is moderated by
One human: Ferdinand Huber
and one Artificial Intelligence: Didi Allesweiss.
Listen to the Music of the Tech Stories by â clicking hereâ (https://open.spotify.com/artist/66P6EMhhqxU8NoyO4cClUB?si=l8CBlgEmTjijOcfNb0UfGQ)
Used AI Models:
ChatGPT
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NotebookLM
Auphonic.com
Script, production and moderation: Ferdinand Huber
Music and sound effects created with Suno.com
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13 Oct 2026
Tech Stories - Off The Record
Hey, Ferdi here!
Every other week, between our regular episodes, I want to take you along for a more personal conversation. No scripts, no studio production. Just me sharing what's on my mind, what I'm working on, interesting discoveries, and a few thoughts about technology and how it's changing our lives.
Think of it as a little behind-the-scenes chat.
Glad to see you around.
6 Oct 2026
The Man Beneath the Microchip â The Story of the MOSFET
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You probably donât know his name.
But Mohamed Atalla helped create the technology inside almost every computer, smartphone, data center, and digital device on Earth.
At Bell Labs, Atalla solved one of the biggest problems holding back silicon technology. Then, together with Dawon Kahng, he created the MOSFET â the tiny electronic switch that became the foundation of the modern microchip.
Today, billions of MOSFETs can exist inside a single processor. They power the internet, artificial intelligence, smartphones, and almost everything we think of as modern technology.
So why do we remember the CEOs, founders, and famous inventors... but almost never the people who built the foundations underneath them?
This is the hidden story of Mohamed Atalla â an immigrant engineer whose work quietly changed the world.
Tech Stories tells the hidden, surprising stories behind the worldâs most influential tech companies, inventions, and creatorsâpacked with insights, suspense, and real lessons you can apply.
Tech Stories is moderated by
One human: Ferdinand Huber
and one Artificial Intelligence: Didi Allesweiss.
Used AI Models:
ChatGPT
â â suno.comâ â
NotebookLM
Auphonic.com
Script, production and moderation: Ferdinand Huber
Music and sound effects created with Suno.com
This Podcast is brought to you by leantalk.org
For Contact and Information visit:
techstoriespodcast.com
or send an email to hi@techstoriespodcast.com
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