Tech Won't Save Us5 Tammi 2023

Why Tech Billionaires Want to Shape Our Future w/ Rose Eveleth

Paris Marx is joined by Rose Eveleth to discuss the end of her long-running podcast, why thinking about the future is important, and how tech billionaires try to shape our idea of the future to serve their ends.Rose Eveleth is the creator and host of the Flash Forward podcast and the author of Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows. You can follow them on Twitter at @roseveleth.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.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode: Please participate in our listener survey this month to give us a better idea of what you think of the show: https://forms.gle/xayiT7DQJn56p62x7 Elon Musk says Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a big inspiration, but he seems to have missed its message. Karen Hao and Gideon Lichfield explained how Facebook’s PR team nitpicked one of their stories Books mentioned: Ruha Benjamin’s Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want and Jimmy Soni’s The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley. The New York Times recently wrote about a group of Luddite teens. Tommy Douglas won CBC’s Greatest Canadian contest for winning public healthcare. You can see the episode here. Support the show

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Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare w/ Spencer Ackerman

Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" g...

10 Loka 202455min

Data Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are the dominant players in the cloud market. Around the world, they’re building massive hyperscale data centers that they claim are necessary to power the future of our ...

7 Loka 202431min

Don’t Fall for Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand w/ Karl Bode

Paris Marx is joined by Karl Bode to discuss how Mark Zuckerberg's makeover and the PR campaign that’s accompanied it shouldn’t distract from the ongoing harms of his company.Karl Bode is a freelance ...

3 Loka 202458min

What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara Kneese

Paris Marx is joined by Tamara Kneese to discuss the difficult question of what happens to our digital presence after we die and why some tech billionaires are so desperate to make themselves into cha...

26 Syys 202457min

Will Google’s Monopoly Be Broken Up? w/ Rob Larson

Paris Marx is joined by Rob Larson to discuss the recent ruling that Google is a monopolist, what consequences it might face, and what lessons we can learn from the Microsoft antitrust case in the ear...

19 Syys 20241h 3min

Google and Meta Are A Threat to Journalism w/ Matt Pearce

Paris Marx is joined by Matt Pearce to discuss how Google sidestepped two California bills aimed at funding journalism and how major tech companies are transforming the web to make hyperlinks less rel...

12 Syys 20241h 1min

Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen

Paris Marx is joined by Taylor Welling and Kathryn Friesen to discuss how they formed wall-to-wall unions in the video game industry and their thoughts on broader challenges like layoffs and corporate...

5 Syys 202456min

No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner

Paris Marx is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop ...

29 Elo 202456min