But, that doesn’t mean you’ll have to live without your favorite tech-based gameshow podcast. In fact, I’ve put together a game that I’m including in this article so you can play your own episode of Techathlon at home. Here’s how to do it: Everything around you is deteriorating. It sounds sad, but it’s just the way of our wonderful universe. In fact, the computer or smartphone you’re using to read this is slowly breaking down as we speak. This fact applies to humans, too, as the rigors of the Techathlon podcast can really wear us out. So, we’re taking a short summer break to get brain massages, eat lots of almonds, and dip our heads into buckets of ice. But that doesn’t mean you’ll have to live without your favorite tech-based gameshow podcast. In fact, I’ve put together a game that I’m including in this article so you can play your own episode of Techathlon—our trivia-meets-tech-news competitive gabfest at home. Here’s how to do it: Gather up three friends and force them into a small recording studio and arrange them so they have to make awkward, competitive eye contact. Then, ask these questions—the answers are below—and secretly resent the person who wins as we do with Rob every week. It’s easy and fun. Here’s the game. The answer key is at the bottom. This week’s game keeps with our deterioration theme. You think saving pictures and other files to a hard drive or some other digital storage will keep them forever— but that’s not the case. In fact, if you saved your files to writeable DVDs back in the early 2000s, they may already have decayed. Here are some trivia questions about the crushing toll time takes on our digital existence. A. 5 percent B. 20 percent C. 40 percent A. 20 years B. 50 years C. 80 years A. 10 years B. 20 years C. 30 years A. 200 years B. 400 years C. 1000 years A. 500 terabytes B. 700 terabytes C. 1.5 petabytes A. 1 year B. 5 years C. 10 years See? Wasn’t that fun? We’ll be back in August with new episodes of Techathlon. Answer key: 1-B, 2-A, 3-A, 4-B, 5-B, 6-B
