Disconnected

Disconnected is tech commentary with its eyes fixed on human behavior. The show is less interested in gadget novelty than in the pressure systems built around platforms, AI, data, and influence. Jag Sharma leads conversations that treat each headline as evidence of a larger shift. Sometimes the shift is obvious, as with TikTok facing political pressure or X adding features that raise IP address concerns. Sometimes it is stranger and more intimate, like couples in China turning food delivery into date night. The show keeps asking what gets blurred when every part of life can be optimized. Work, love, leisure, identity, and trust all become fair game. AI is a recurring force in that argument. Episodes consider OpenAI warnings, agentic AI, chatbot mistakes, Humane's AI Pin, Grok, and the question of whether people want technology to do more or less for them. Social media is treated with the same skepticism. Disconnected looks at TikTok, AirChat, X, Horizon Worlds, and influencer culture through privacy, politics, business incentives, and user dependence. The style is brisk and talky. There is room for jokes, sharp reversals, and lightly combative exchanges, but the show keeps circling back to consequences. It is especially good at catching contradictions, such as companies selling convenience while asking for deeper access to users' lives. The conversations also make space for unease. Neuralink becomes more than a brain-implant story; it becomes a question about agency and selfhood. A chatbot refund dispute becomes a warning about automation meeting real-world accountability. A parenting influencer story becomes a caution about who gets trusted online. Disconnected works best for listeners who like tech news filtered through culture, power, and everyday compromise. It does not argue that everyone should quit the internet. It asks what kind of bargain people are being asked to accept.