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 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 Sam Harnett to talk about how the flaws in tech journalism provide a distorted view of what tech companies are actually doing and why it looks like California will finally force ride-hail drivers to be recognized as employees (without Uber and Lyft). Sam Harnett is a reporter covering labor and tech at KQED in the Bay Area. He recently made a radio series called How We Got to Here and is the co-creator of The World According to Sound . Sam has an essay about the problems...
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Paris Marx is joined by Richard Barbrook to discuss how the Californian Ideology illustrated the neoliberalism of Silicon Valley, whether it's still relevant in the present, and how games can be used for political purposes.Richard Barbrook is the author of \"Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village\" and \"Class Wargames: Ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism.\" He's a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the...
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Paris Marx is joined by Edward Niedermeyer to discuss how Elon Musk got involved in Tesla, promised things he couldn't deliver to raise funds, and where it goes next now that he's becoming a more controversial figure.Edward Niedermeyer is the author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors and a co-host of The Autonocast. Follow Ed on Twitter at @Tweetermeyer.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 Avi Asher-Schapiro and Maya Gebeily to discuss how Facebook isn't fully enforcing its ban on conversion therapy in Arabic, what that means for LGBTQ people in Arabic-speaking countries, and how social media has become a battleground.Avi Asher-Schapiro is a journalist covering technology for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Maya Gebeily is the Middle East Correspondent at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Follow Avi on Twitter as @AASchapiro and follow Maya as...
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As algorithms take over management, what does that mean for how we work? Callum Cant explains how work is being transformed to remove workers' autonomy, but there are still ways to fight back.
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Paris Marx is joined by Ziya Tong to talk about how COVID-19 is helping us to see the world in a new way, and how that might open the door to reimagining how we organize society. Our "reality bubbles" about work, the food system, technology, and our relationship to nature are being severely challenged, but the question remains whether we can seize this moment to build a better world in the pandemic's aftermath. Ziya Tong is the author of " The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden...
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Australia wants Google and Facebook to pay news publishers - but does it serve the public interest? Lizzie O'Shea explains how the plan is being pushed by media giants that want to profit from tech's data-extractive business model.
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Paris Marx is joined by Ryan Broderick and Hussein Kesvani to discuss how war gets filtered through social media and the content economy, and what that means for how we make sense of it.Ryan Broderick writes the Garbage Day newsletter and hosts Content Mines. Hussein Kesvani is a writer and the co-host of Trashfuture and Ten Thousand Posts. Follow Ryan on Twitter at @broderick and Hussein at @HKesvani.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 Benjamin Peters to discuss the proposals for national computer networks in the Soviet Union, the challenges they faced in getting approval, and what lessons they hold for how we think about networks.Benjamin Peters is the author of \"How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet\" and the co-editor of \"Your Computer Is On Fire.\" He's also the Hazel Rogers Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty...
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Paris Marx is joined by Sabrina Fernandes to discuss what came out of COP26, what it actually means to have net-zero emissions by 2050, and all the mechanisms that countries are developing to delay necessary action to reduce emissions.Sabrina Fernandes is an IRGAC postdoctoral fellow at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. She's the producer of Tese Onze and a contributing editor at Jacobin. Follow Sabrina on Twitter at @safbf.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective...
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Paris Marx is joined by Bennett Tomlin to discuss last week's crash of Terra and Luna, the problems with stablecoins, and whether this collapse will finally force regulators to take action on cryptocurrency.Drew Pendergrass is a co-host of Crypto Critics' Corner and writer of the FUD Letter. Follow Bennett on Twitter at @BennettTomlin.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...
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How do we retake control of complex systems when they're too complex to understand? Tim Maughan outlines the infrastructures we depend on, the futures they could be driving us toward, and why it is possible to get control over them (but Silicon Valley won't like it).
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Platforms mediate many parts of our lives, but how do we make them serve us instead of powerful corporations? Mathew Lawrence and Thomas Hanna lay out a vision for better platforms and the policy tools to achieve it.
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Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss how digital ad markets work, how Google and Facebook maintain their dominance, and why the TikTok saga wasnt really about China getting peoples data at all. Shoshana Wodinsky is a data reporter at Gizmodo. She recently wrote how banning TikTok wont do anything about data going to China and how the US Congress might break up the tech monopolies . Follow Shoshana on Twitter as @swodinsky . Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on...
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Paris Marx is joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss how the problems we associate with Big Tech arent the result of mind-control systems, but corporation consolidation. Cory argues we need to stop buying the overblown sales pitch, stop collecting so much data, and enforce antitrust legislation against the tech monopolies. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His most recent non-fiction book, How to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism , is available for free at OneZero....
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Tech is mediating more aspects of urban life, but who does that serve? David Banks argues we should be wary of urban tech that's sold as convenient while enhancing corporate control over our lives.
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Paris Marx is joined by Mark McGurl to discuss how Amazon is reshaping the publishing industry and altering the form of the novel itself.Mark McGurl is a Professor of Literature at Stanford University. He's also the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing and Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon. Follow Mark on Twitter at @markjamesmcgurl.🚨 T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview,...
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Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss Mark Zuckerberg's big plans for the metaverse, everything that's wrong with it, the concept's scifi origins, and why Silicon Valley is desperate to make it happen.Brian Merchant is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone and Blood in the Machine, coming in 2022. Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant.?? T-shirts are now available!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 Brian Merchant to discuss how Amazons response to COVID-19 has put its workers in danger, how big tech companies are partnering with oil and gas companies, and why the pandemic makes it clear that shopping at Amazon is unethical. Brian Merchant is a senior editor at OneZero and the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone . He recently wrote how the pandemic is accelerating the Amazonification of the economy and why its unethical to continue giving...
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Paris Marx is joined by Grace Blakeley to discuss how low interest rates and quantitative easing fueled the tech economy's post-recession growth, why raising them won't fix the problems that's created, and whether higher interest rates are the solution to rising inflation.Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune Magazine and host of A World to Win. She's also the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation and The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism....
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Spotify claims to be good for music, but is that true? Liz Pelly argues it continues a long history of exploitation and needs to be fought with a vision for a different kind of music industry.
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Paris Marx is joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss why we should care about the supply chains of technology, what that resource extraction means for people in Latin America, and how we should think about a less resource-intensive future. Thea Riofrancos is the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal . She is also an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College and a...
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Paris Marx is joined by Yaseen Aslam to discuss the UK Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers are not self-employed, the long fight to reach that point, and the next steps in the push for gig workers' rights in the UK.Yaseen Aslam is the president of the App Drivers and Couriers Union and a lead claimant in the Aslam v Uber case. Follow Yaseen on Twitter at @Yaseenaslam381 and the ADCU at @ADCUnion.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its...
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Jeff Bezos will become Executive Chair of Amazon- but what will that mean for workers? Lauren Kaori Gurley outlines the exploitative working conditions and workers are surveilled to stop them from organizing.
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Paris Marx is joined by Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran to discuss Australia's robodebt scandal where automated decision-making was used against welfare recipients, and how exploitative AI implementations are being deployed by governments in social welfare and at the borders.Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran is a proud Tamil person and a PhD candidate at Australian National University whose work focuses on digital identification systems and border policing regimes. Follow Dhakshayini on Twitter as...
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Is Section 230 to blame for problems with social media? Evan Greer argues it's essential for online free speech and being able to build platforms that challenge the power of the tech monopolies.
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Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the development of the iPhone, how Apple manages the press, and how the parts of the company's supply chain that get too little attention.Brian Merchant is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone and Blood in the Machine, coming in 2022. Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant.?? 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...
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As the podcast celebrates episode 100, Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the huge drop in crypto prices, the coming threat (to crypto) of interest rate hikes and regulation, the human impact of crypto schemes, and where things may be going next.Jacob Silverman is a staff writer at The New Republic and writes about crypto with the actor Ben McKenzie. Follow Jacob on Twitter at @SilvermanJacob.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider...
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Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland's College of Information Studies. He is the author of \"The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.\" Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech...
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Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the labor practices, tech products, and global supply chains of tech companies prove they don't care about Black lives regardless of what they've said in recent statements. Edward also explains why we should defund the police. Edward Ongweso Jr. is a staff writer at Vice. He recently wrote about tech companies' response to Black Lives Matter and what it would mean to defund the police . Follow Edward on Twitter as @bigblackjacobin ....
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What role does YouTube play in spreading far-right views? Becca Lewis explains the platform's long history of incentivizing extreme content and how that's having negative real-world impacts.
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Paris Marx is joined by Juan Ortiz Freuler to discuss the recent global negotiations on the taxation of multinational corporations, how Africa is demanding the digital labor of its citizens be accounted for, how these tensions threaten to fragment the web, and why the Global South may hold a better future of technology that transcends the capitalist, centralized, and individualist platforms which currently dominate. Juan Ortiz Freuler is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet...
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Paris Marx is joined by Jathan Sadowski to discuss the politics of smart technology, how it enables powerful actors to further control the population, and why we should be more comfortable dismantling technologies that dont serve the public good. Jathan Sadowski is the author of Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World and a Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. He recently wrote about how...
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Billionaires want us to colonize space, but does that really serve humanity? Manu Saadia explains the roots of these visions for space, and why we should instead refocus on science.
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Paris Marx is joined by Gita Jackson to discuss the revelations of sexual harassment and discrimination at Activision Blizzard, how workers have organized in response to them, and what it all could mean for the future of the video games industry.Gita Jackson is a senior writer at Motherboard, Vice's tech vertical. Follow Gita on Twitter at @xoxogossipgita.?? 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 Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile's socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about political technology and innovation outside the Global North.Eden Medina is the author of \"Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile.\" She's also an associate professor at MIT and the Rita Howser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institite for Advanced Study at Harvard...
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How are gig workers organizing outside the Global North? Rida Qadri explains that workers in Jakarta have built structures to suit their local context instead of copying the demands of US workers.
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Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss the internets connection with neoliberalism, Chinas protectionist measures to develop its own tech industry, and how the new tensions between the United States and China are leading Silicon Valley to embrace nationalism. JS Tan is a former tech worker and writer. He is an editor at Lausan and started Collective Actions in Tech . He recently wrote articles about the tech angle on the Cold War for Foreign Policy and Trumps attempted TikTok ban for...
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Should we have individual rights over our data? Salome Viljoen argues instead for a collective approach to data governance where we collectively decide how and when data is collected to ensure it benefits the public.
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Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why we should look to the Luddites for inspiration, how history could inform a better future of technology, and what tech organizing might look like under a Joe Biden administration. Ben Tarnoff is a co-founder of Logic Magazine and co-authored Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Doand How They Do It with Moira Weigel. The book will be released in October and can be preordered now. Follow Ben on Twitter as @bentarnoff . Tech...
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Paris Marx is joined by Molly Taft to discuss why we need to act now to reduce emissions, what role carbon removal technologies can play, and how Silicon Valley is trying to shift our focus to future technologies rather than taking drastic action today.Molly Taft is a staff writer at Earther. Follow Molly on Twitter at @mollytaft.🎉 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. Help...
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Is technology improving life in rural China? Xiaowei Wang explains how rural communities are being pulled into global e-commerce supply chains, and how while that works for some, commercialization is also encouraging unsustainable practices.
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Paris Marx is joined by Banu Subramaniam and Debjani Bhattacharyya to discuss Indian politics under Narendra Modi and the BJP how contract-tracing apps and geofencing are being used to monitor people during COVID-19 and how Hindu nationalism is informing responses to the pandemic on WhatsApp. Banu Subramaniam is a professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism . Debjani Bhattacharyya...
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Paris Marx is joined by Maria Bustillos to discuss the important work of the Internet Archive, why it opened a digital National Emergency Library during the pandemic, how access to culture is essential for the social good, and why the major publishers are trying to permanently restrict digital lending in a narrow-minded bid for short-term profit. Maria Bustillos is the founding editor of Popula and Brick House. She recently wrote about the major publishers lawsuit against the Internet Archive...
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Paris Marx is joined by Alex Rivera to discuss his 2008 film Sleep Dealer and how it imagined exploitative technologies being implemented in a future Mexico of hardened borders and limited migration.Alex Rivera is a filmmaker and digital media artist whose work explores themes of globalization, migration, and technology. His feature films include Sleep Dealer and The Infiltrators. Follow Alex on Twitter as @Alex_Rivera.?? T-shirts are now available!Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical...
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Paris Marx is joined by Rafael Grohmann to discuss the state of app-based work in Brazil, organizing by food delivery workers to demand better conditions, and even a recent strike by click farm workers. Rafael Grohmann is a professor at UNISINOS, coordinator at DigiLabour Research Lab, and principal investigator in Brazil of Fairwork Project. Follow Rafael on Twitter at @grohmann_rafael. ?? T-shirts are now available! Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and...
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Are digital ads really as effective as Google and Facebook want us to believe? Tim Hwang says they're not - and the financialization of the digital ad markets has created a bubble that could alter the internet as we know it.
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Paris Marx is joined by Tom Evens to discuss how the history of the television industry can give us important insights into the state of streaming video services and how regulators might respond to ensure they serve the public good instead of just their private goals. Tom Evens is the co-author of Platform Power and Policy in Transforming Television Markets and a Professor of Media, Innovation and Communication Technologies at Ghent University. Follow Tom on Twitter as @EvensTom . Tech Won't...
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