How Foreverism Degrades Our Culture w/ Grafton Tanner
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How Foreverism Degrades Our Culture w/ Grafton Tanner

Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss the dangers and consequences of companies and politicians leveraging nostalgia for their own purposes. Grafton Tanner is the author of Foreverism. He also teaches at the University of Georgia.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. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: Paris wrote about the material footprint of data centers in Disconnect. Ian McKellen broke down on the set of The Hobbit after acting with no other actors on a green screen. In an interview with Charlie Rose, George Lucas described differences between Soviet and US film industries. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told Vanity Fair it wasn’t as fun making Star Wars films today as it was making the original trilogy. Jake Gyllenhaal described the difficulty of acting in a Marvel film after Spider-Man: Far From Home. Support the show

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Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)

Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)

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Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare w/ Spencer Ackerman

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...

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Data Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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

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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...

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

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