Tech Won't Save Us challenges the notion that technology alone can solve our problems. Full episodes coming very soon. Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)
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Paris Marx is joined by Quintin Smith to discuss how Roblox profits from the labor of children, built an exploitative in-game economy, and needs to be regulated as soon as possible.Quintin Smith is a journalist working with People Make Games and Shut Up & Sit Down. Follow Quintin on Twitter at @Quinns108.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast...
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Paris Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss the big Axie Infinity hack, what's wrong with the New York Times' Latecomer's Guide to Crypto, and what Molly's years as a Wikipedia editor have taught her about the problem with web3's vision of total commercialization.Molly White is a software engineer and the creator of web3 is going just great. Follow Molly on Twitter at @molly0xFFF.🎉 This month is the show's second birthday. To celebrate, we want to get 100 new supporters at $5/month or...
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To end 2021, Paris Marx provides a quick update on the podcast and what's coming next year.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in...
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Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss how social and environmental crises fuel nostalgia, how companies profit from it, and whether it can be reoriented to inspire a better future.Grafton Tanner is the author of \"The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia\" from Repeater Books. Follow Grafton on Twitter at @GraftonTanner.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of...
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Bill Gates is showered with positive press - but should he really be considered the \"good\" billionaire? Tim Schwab explains the political power and conflicts of interest of the Gates Foundation.
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Paris Marx is joined by Lauren Smiley to discuss what we've learned about the Uber crash since in happened in March 2018, what that's meant for the vehicle operator who's been charged, and whether the justice system made the right call in blaming her instead of Uber.Lauren Smiley is a WIRED contributor and freelance journalist based in San Francisco. Follow Laren on Twitter at @laurensmiley.🎉 This month is the show's second birthday. To celebrate, we want to get 100 new supporters at...
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Paris Marx is joined by Bianca Wylie to talk about the response to COVID-19, how governments emphasis on tech solutions ignores (and potentially entrenches) social inequalities, and how we might take control of technology to ensure it works for the public good. Bianca Wylie is the co-founder of Digital Public and Tech Reset Canada, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Follow Bianca on Twitter as @biancawylie . After listening to the interview, consider...
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Paris Marx is joined by Jennifer Scott and Brice Sopher to discuss the campaign to unionize Foodora and the fight for gig workers' rights in Canada.Jennifer Scott is a gig worker and president of Gig Workers United. Brice Sopher is also a gig worker and vice president of Gig Workers United. Follow Jennifer on Twitter at @PalimpsestJenn, Brice at @this_is_walmer, and Gig Workers United at @GigWorkersUnite.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its...
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Paris Marx is joined by Anna Wiener to discuss her journey into the tech industry, how Silicon Valley's desire for a \"frictionless\" world is affecting culture, and why it's important to analyze Substack's claims about the future of journalism.Anna...
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Paris Marx is joined by Legacy Russell to discuss how glitch feminism challenges existing ideas of what constitutes the body and the effects of having those conceptions embedded within our technological systems.Legacy Russell is the associate curator of exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and will become executive director and chief curator of The Kitchen in September. She's the author of \"Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto\" and is currently writing \"Black Meme.\"...
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Paris Marx is joined by Jenny Chan to discuss the difficult lives of Foxconn factory workers, the companys relationship with Apple, the structural roadblocks to better working conditions, and how Chinese workers are trying to push back. Jenny Chan is the co-author of Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of Chinas Workers with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai. Its available from Haymarket Books and Pluto Press . She is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic...
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Paris Marx is joined by Michael Kwet to discuss how digital technologies are used to entrench the power of the United States and its dominant corporations at the expense of the Global South.Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He got his PhD in Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa. Follow Michael on Twitter at @Michael_Kwet.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and...
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Paris Marx is joined by Noopur Raval to discuss India's gig economy, the specific conditions of women who provide services through beauty and wellness apps, and how workers organize to improve their conditions.Noopur Raval is a postdoctoral research fellow at the AI Now Institute at New York University. Follow Yaseen on Twitter at @tetisheri.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people...
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Paris Marx is joined by David Golumbia to discuss the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, the right-wing politics of cryptocurrencies and blockchains, and why the left shouldn't embrace them.David Golumbia is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of \"The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism.\" He's also writing a new book called \"Cyberlibertarianism\" from Minnesota University Press. Follow David on Twitter as @dgolumbia.??...
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Paris Marx is joined by Zachary Loeb to discuss the history of tech criticism with a focus on Joseph Weizenbaum and Lewis Mumford, as well as why the techlash is a narrative that suits Silicon Valley.Zachary Loeb is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania whose dissertation research looks at Y2K. Follow Zachary on Twitter as @libshipwreck, and check out his Librarian Shipwreck blog.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview,...
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NFTs have boomed in recent months, but do they serve a social good? Jacob Silverman explains the problems with NFTs and why there might be more speculative digital assets to come.
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Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, how technology is enabling an extension of speculation and gambling, and why those pressures need to be opposed.Edward Ongweso Jr. is a staff writer at Motherboard/Vice and a co-host of This Machine Kills. Follow Edward on Twitter at @bigblackjacobin.🎉 This month is the show's second birthday. To celebrate, we want to get 100 new supporters at $5/month or above to bring on a producer to help make the show....
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Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss the ethics of tech media recommending surveillance devices, aspects of \"smart\" technologies you might not have considered, and why we should think twice about surrounding ourselves with cameras and microphones.Chris Gilliard is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center. Follow Chris on Twitter at @hypervisible.🚨 T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech,...
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Paris Marx is joined by Tyler Riordan to discuss the state of the gig economy in Australia, the ongoing efforts to improve their conditions, and Tyler's research on migrant food couriers in Brisbane.Tyler Riordan is a PhD candidate in hospitality and anthropology at the University of Queensland. Follow Tyler on Twitter at @tyler_riordan. ?? T-shirts are now available! Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to...
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Paris Marx is joined by Peter Labuza to discuss how streaming is reconfiguring Hollywood, what that means for the film and television we consume, and whether it's time to consider antitrust action against the streaming giants.Peter Labuza is a lecturer at San Jose State University whose work focuses on the legal, financial, and political history of creative industries. He's currently writing a book about the history of entertainment law in Hollywood. Follow Peter on Twitter as @labuzamovies.??...
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Paris Marx is joined by Kevin Driscoll to discuss the history of France's Minitel system, the insights it provides about the modern platform economy, and whether the internet will one day be shut down too.Kevin Driscoll is the co-author of \"Minitel: Welcome to the Internet\" with Julian Mailland. He's also a professor at the University of Washington and the author of the forthcoming book \"The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media.\" Follow Kevin on Twitter as...
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Paris Marx is joined by Dan Hind to discuss the problems with the existing tech industry and its links to the state, and his proposal for reorienting technological development to promote human flourishing and a cooperative economy. Dan Hind is the author of The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform and recently wrote a report called The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution for The Next System Project and Common Wealth. Hes also...
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The Luddites are smeared as anti-technology workers, but who were they really? Gavin Mueller explains they opposed technology that reduced their pay and autonomy at work, and they have lessons for us today.
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Paris Marx is solo this week, providing an update on the podcast, the series of guests planned for May, and what's coming next for Tech Won't Save Us!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at...
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Paris Marx is joined by Aaron W. Gordon to discuss how VC-backed tech companies upended the bike-share industry, how that specifically played out in the case of Uber and Jump, and why the dockless bike and scooter model is failing. Aaron is a senior staff writer at Motherboard. He recently reported on Ubers mismanagement of Jump Bikes . Follow Aaron on Twitter as @A_W_Gordon . You can also read Paris thoughts on the future of micromobility . Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on...
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Paris Marx is joined by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai to discuss the arrest of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan for trying to launder the $5 billion in Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack, how they were moving the money, how the authorities found them, and what lessons the case might hold.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is senior staff writer at Motherboard. Follow Lorenzo on Twitter at @lorenzofb.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society...
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Paris Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss Peter Thiel's history, how the network he cultivated has influenced Silicon Valley, and his recent move into funding Republican candidates.Moira Weigel is an assistant professor at Northeastern University, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic magazine. She also co-edited Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It. Follow Moira on Twitter at...
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Paris Marx is joined by Sara Mojtehedzadeh to discuss the Teamsters' organizing at Amazon warehouses in Canada and the working conditions that workers face at those facilities.Sara Mojtehedzadeh is a labour reporter at the Toronto Star and the host of Hustled, a podcast about Foodora workers' fight for a union. Follow Sara on Twitter at @SaraMojtehedz.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of...
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Paris Marx is joined by Stephen Diehl to discuss why technologists are divided on crypto, what's wrong with blockchain, why crypto assets are scams, and why web3 is a rebranding effort.Stephen Diehl is software engineer and crypto skeptic based in London. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @smdiehl.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow...
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Social media and popular culture constantly makes us feel nostalgic - but whose interests does that serve? Grafton Tanner argues corporations benefit from modern nostalgia, but it could be redirected to inspire a better future.
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Paris Marx is joined by Phil Jones to discuss the hidden microworkers behind supposedly AI-powered automation from major tech companies, how it differs in the Global North and South, and what it means for how we think about the future.Phil Jones is the author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism and a researcher at Autonomy. Follow Phil on Twitter at @philjones7771.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the...
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Paris Marx is joined by Ilari Kaila to talk about Elon Musk's latest unhinged tweeting episode, his self-serving calls to end COVID-19 lockdowns, and how the outlandish promises he makes and stories he makes result in a cult-like devotion by those who follow him. Ilari Kaila is a Finnish-American writer and Composer-in-Residence at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work has been published by Aeon Magazine, Jacobin Magazine, Muftah Magazine, the Finnish Broadcasting...
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Paris Marx is joined by Corrina Laughlin to discuss how evangelical Christians have adapted to modern technologies, how churches have emulated startups, the growth of the faith tech sector, and whether there's anything that can be learned from their tech experiments.Corrina Laughlin is the author of Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture. She's also an instructor of media studies at Loyola Marymount University. Follow Corrina on Twitter at @CKLaughlin.Tech Won't Save Us...
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Paris Marx is joined by Shannon Mattern to discuss what we miss when we see the city solely through the lens of the computer, and how other institutions and ways of knowing can help inform richer ways of understanding the city.Shannon Mattern is a professor of anthropology at The New School for Social Research and President of the Board at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. She is the author of \"Code and Clay, Data and Dirt\" and \"A City Is Not a Computer.\" Follow...
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Paris Marx is joined by Will Tavlin to discuss the history of the film industry, how the digital revolution was promised to democratize film, and how it actually helped cement the power of Hollywood and Silicon Valley.Will Tavlin is a writer and fact checker based in New York City. Follow Will on Twitter at @wtavlin.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the...
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Paris Marx is joined by Justine Medina and Karen Ponce to discuss how the Amazon Labor Union succeeded in unionizing Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, what it's like working for Amazon, and where the movement to unionize Amazon goes next.Justine Medina is a packer at the JFK8 warehouse and is on the organizing committee of the Amazon Labor Union. Karen Ponce is a stower at JFK8 and the interim secretary of Amazon Labor Union. Follow Justine on Twitter at @jnmedina8989 and Karen at...
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Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to talk about how the tech industry is responding to COVID-19, how tech workers may find their jobs at risk in the aftermath, and why we need to change the system to build tech for the public good instead of in service to private capital. Wendy Liu is the author of " Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism ." She has also written for Tribune Magazine, Logic Magazine, and the New Statesman. Follow Wendy on Twitter as...
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Paris Marx is joined by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese to discuss the environmental crises of climate change and mass extinction we face, and why taking them seriously while providing for everyone requires a radical change to how we structure society.Drew Pendergrass is a PhD candidate in environmental engineering at Harvard University and Troy Vettese is an environmental historian and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute. They are the co-authors of Half-Earth Socialism: A...
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Paris Marx is joined by Olivier Jutel to discuss blockchain's pivot to humanitarianism, the questionable people behind the technology, and how their projects in the Pacific have benefited capitalist and imperial power.Olivier Jutel is a lecturer at the University of Otago. Follow Olivier on Twitter at @OJutel.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a...
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Paris Marx is joined by Andre Brock to discuss the history of Black people's online activity, the internet's association with whiteness, and what Black Twitter can tell us about the centrality of Black people to digital culture.Andre Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His award-winning book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by...
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Paris Marx is joined by ann haeyoung to discuss IBM worker organizing in the 1970s and 1980s against racism and apartheid, and how those stories are important to informing tech organizing in the present.ann haeyoung is a media artist interested in technology and labor. She is also a former tech worker and organizer, and a graduate student at UCLA.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and...
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Technologies promise to get rid of friction, but who does that serve? Chris Gilliard explains how narrowly conceived technologies create a form of digital redlining that entrenches social problems.
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Paris Marx is joined by James Muldoon to discuss his vision for platform socialism and the different ways we could reorganize platforms to serve the public good over corporate profit.James Muldoon is the author of Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech. He's also a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and the Head of Digital Research at Autonomy. Follow James on Twitter at @james_muldoon_.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its...
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Paris Marx is joined by Eoin Higgins to discuss why tech companies and venture capital firms are launching their own media verticals, what Marc Andreessen hopes to get out of Clubhouse and Substack, and why Jeff Bezos may have a better approach to media.Eoin Higgins is a freelance journalist and writes on Substack under The Flashpoint. Follow Eoin on Twitter as @EoinHiggins_.🚨✉️ Tech Won't Save Us has a weekly critical tech newsletter called ⚒️ THE HAMMER ⚒️. Sign up here:...
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Is automation to blame for the lack of good jobs? Aaron Benanav argues it's not technology but a slowing economy that's failing to deliver, and that requires us to develop a new vision for the future.
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Paris Marx is joined by Grace Blakeley to discuss how neoliberal capitalism benefits the tech monopolies, how theyre thriving as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, and how workers fight back after the defeat of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. Grace Blakeley is the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation , a staff writer at Tribune Magazine, and serves on the Labour Partys National Policy Forum. She also recently wrote about how COVID-19 is accelerating tech monopolization...
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Paris Marx takes a solo episode to discuss the billionaire space race. Specifically, how billionaires are selling grand futures of space travel as a PR scheme to get huge public contracts that will allow them to control the infrastructure of space.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris...
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Paris Marx is joined by Lizzie OShea to discuss how learning about history can empower us to imagine more radical futures, how COVID-19 could create the opportunity to demand a better world, and how the praise for essential workers could help us rethink our ideas about work and the economy. Lizzie OShea is the author of Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology . She is also the founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch. She...
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Paris Marx is joined by Annalee Newitz to discuss what's wrong with Silicon Valley's understanding of science fiction, and how tech leaders use it to justify terrible futures.Annalee Newitz is the author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age and The Future of Another Timeline. They are also the co-host of Our Opinions Are Correct and a writer for NYT Opinion and New Scientist. Follow Annalee on Twitter at @Annaleen.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a...
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