Snake oil or substance? Tech companies talk climate at COP26
This week Josh Lappen, an environmental historian studying at Oxford University, returns to discuss the climate crisis and tech companies ahead of COP26. Are tech companies’ promises of technological ...
29 Okt 202144min
Financial imperialism on the blockchain: Bitcoin in El Salvador
This week, Alina Utrata is joined by Mallika Balakrishnan to talk about the protests over the adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador. What exactly is bitcoin (and what's the difference between Bitcoin and...
26 Sep 202138min
The Digital Landscape of Southeast Asia: From Fake News to 5G
We’re back from our summer holiday! To kick off season 2 of the Anti-Dystopians, we’re zeroing in on some of the global aspects of technology—this time in Southeast Asia. Alina Utrata talks to Kyra Ja...
19 Sep 202154min
Lost in Space: Audio Reading
In this special episode, an audio recording of Alina Utrata's recent article in the Boston Review "Lost in Space" about the tech billionaires attempting to colonize space.https://bostonreview.net/scie...
15 Juli 202133min
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Colonization of Outer Space
To kick off the new season of the podcast, Alina Utrata and Shikha Srinivas discuss space colonization and the tech billionaires in outer space. Why are Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk obsessed with getting ...
16 Maj 202150min
Can your computer see you?: A history of the screen, from radar to AR.
This week, the Anti-Dystopians hosts Louisa Shen, a PhD candidate at Cambridge University who has written about the history of the screen. Louisa explains how the screen began as military technology i...
28 Mars 202153min
State, corporation, people: the global dimensions of tech regulation
Kyra Jasper, Josh Simons and Alina Utrata discuss the global dimensions of tech regulation. In this episode, they examine three case studies: Google and Facebook’s reaction to Australia’s new media la...
18 Mars 202157min
Nationalize Gmail!: Climate Change, Critical Infrastructure, and the USPS
Alina Utrata talks with Josh Lappen, a fellow Californian and environmental historian researching at Oxford University, who studies some of the most important technology there is: critical infrastruct...
7 Mars 202157min
