Chokepoint Capitalism
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week, we speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' and explore how cr...
12 Feb 202358min
Burning Platforms Live in Melbourne
The final Burning Platforms of 2022 reflects on the year that was, including Elon Musk, tech regulation, privacy and more. Plus we held quizzes, played 'Dan or bot', and launched new book 'Disconnect'...
19 Des 202236min
The End of the (Big Tech) World as we know it
Twitter is imploding before our eyes under Elon Musk, Meta is shedding staff and stock prices, and the crypto winter freezes out more people as FTX collapses. Is this the end of the (Big Tech) world a...
27 Nov 202258min
Navigating the Metaverse
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. As we move deeper into the new phases of the internet should we be building in guardrails and redlines around this new te...
15 Nov 202252min
Resilience or Redesign - Approaching our Tech Future
As part of the 2022 NetThing Internet Governance Conference, Burning Platforms will ask - "Do we need to build our resilience against a worsening tech world, or should we design a better one?" As th...
4 Nov 202233min
Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlock
The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows. Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse...
16 Okt 202255min
Breached As - the Optus data leak
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This episode we look at the huge data breach at Optus, and ask whether this breach is a feature or a bug of a world where...
3 Okt 202252min
The Dark Arts of Online Advertising
Burning Platforms goes under Big Tech’s hood with new research into the increased opacity of online advertising - and the impact of that secrecy on public discourse. With special guests: Nicholas Cara...
18 Sep 202255min
