Better Offline

Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.

Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1

Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bri...

7 Tammi 20251h 15min

The Invisible War Criminals

The Invisible War Criminals

In part 2 of the 2024 Better Offline finale, Ed Zitron tells you how to fight back against the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy and its destruction of the tech ecosystem - by pushing the media to impro...

3 Tammi 202536min

The Invisible War

The Invisible War

In this year's two-part finale, Ed Zitron enumerates the damage being done to billions of people by the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy - and why you need to have solidarity with your fellow user. ---...

1 Tammi 202535min

FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview

FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview

FTC Chair Lina Khan joins Ed Zitron to talk about competitiveness in the tech industry, controlling the cloud giants, and what should give you hope as we head into 2025. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl...

30 Joulu 202429min

CZM Rewind: Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher

CZM Rewind: Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher

In a special live-to-tape episode of Better Offline, Ed is joined by The Verge's Alex Cranz and YouTube influencer Michael Fisher to talk about what they're actually enjoying in the tech industry - an...

25 Joulu 20241h 34min

Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler

Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by 404 Media's Jason Koebler to talk about the state of both the tech industry and the tech media, and how 404 Media has built a worker-owned outlet that genuinely...

18 Joulu 202458min

Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick

Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick

Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by Ryan Barwick of Marketing Brew to talk about how the entire tech ecosystem is controlled by ads - and whether companies like OpenAI and Perplexity can hope to plug the...

11 Joulu 202441min

The Coming Generative AIPocalypse

The Coming Generative AIPocalypse

We're approaching the end of the line for generative AI as big tech realizes that spending $200bn on chips and data centers isn't going to create any good products. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks yo...

6 Joulu 202431min