De Technoloog | BNR

De Technoloog | BNR is technology journalism in interview form: brisk, inquisitive and grounded in the hard edges of implementation. It is not satisfied with saying that a technology is promising. It asks what it costs, where it runs, who owns it, what can break, and why the timing matters. Recent episodes show that range clearly. Small modular nuclear reactors become a conversation about molten salt, passive safety, modular construction and energy prices per megawatt-hour. 6G is framed less as a faster phone network than as a system that can combine communication with sensing, using reflected radio signals to detect movement and objects. Undersea data cables are treated as business assets and strategic vulnerabilities, especially when routes through conflict areas or the North Pole come into view. AI episodes avoid the easy hype cycle. LLMs, vibe coding and synthetic data are discussed through training limits, model bias, hallucination and the basic question of whether more compute can keep solving the same problems. The show also has a taste for engineering endurance. A Voyager episode turns failing spacecraft systems, radioisotope power and old computers into a story about keeping decades-old machines alive. A bionic-leg discussion makes innovation physical again: weight, batteries, motors, carbon fiber, lab prototypes and the unruly forces of ordinary human movement. The conversations often circle back to simple wording after a technical explanation. That is part of the appeal. A guest can talk about spectrum, cryptography or flight data subsystems, and the interview will press for the useful version of the answer. The mood is curious, sometimes dry, and occasionally amused by its own numbering chaos. It remains serious about the subject. De Technoloog | BNR suits listeners who want technology connected to infrastructure, markets, law, energy and daily constraints, rather than presented as a parade of product news.