Tech Won't Save Us
- Website
- http://techwontsave.us/
- Description
- Silicon Valley has a solution for everything, but who do its ideas really serve? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its thought leaders, and the worldview it spreads. They challenge the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. But if tech won't save us, what will? This podcast isn't simply about tearing tech down; it also presents radical ideas for tech designed for human flourishing instead of surveillance, acquisitions, or to boost stock prices. A better world is possible, and so is better technology.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-20 11:04
- last episode published
- 2025-02-20 03:00
- publication frequency
- 6.39 days
- Contributors
- Paris Marx
- Author
- Paris Marx
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 279
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- Detail page
- Categories
- News Politics Technology Arts Books
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Episodes
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| 2025-02-20 | Paris Marx is joined by Makena Kelly to discuss how Elon Musk’s DOGE is reshaping the US government and the consequences that has for government employees and the wider public.Makena Kelly is a senior writer at WIRED and writes the weekly Politics Lab ... |
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| 2025-02-17 | Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldn’t go to waste. We’re releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Here’s a preview of this week’s premi... |
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| 2025-02-13 |
The Tech Oligarchy’s Campaign Against the Media w/ Eoin Higgins Paris Marx is joined by Eoin Higgins to discuss how tech billionaires set out to change the media ecosystem and made it profitable for influential voices to shift to the political right. Eoin Higgins is a journalist and the author of Owned: How Tech Bi... |
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| 2025-02-10 |
Patreon Preview: Sam Altman’s Self-Serving AGI Future w/ Julia Black Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldn’t go to waste. We’re releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Here’s a preview of this week’s premi... |
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| 2025-02-06 | Paris Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how Spotify changes how we listen to music and the broader impacts it has on the wider music industry.Liz Pelly is a music journalist and the author of Mood Machine.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical persp... |
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| 2025-01-30 | Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss David Golumbia's final book Cyberlibertarianism and how right-wing politics shaped how we think about the internet.Chris Gilliard is co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and author of ... |
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| 2025-01-27 |
Patreon Preview: Do We Live in a Simulation? w/ Émile P. Torres Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldn’t go to waste. We’re releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Here’s a preview of this week’s premi... |
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| 2025-01-23 | Paris Marx is joined by Gaby Del Valle to discuss the inauguration of Donald Trump and what the tech oligarchy hopes to get from their relationship with him.Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter at The Verge and is working on a book on ecofascism that wi... |
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| 2025-01-20 |
Patreon Preview: The Fascistic Solutionism of AI w/ Dan McQuillan Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldn’t go to waste. We’re releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Here’s a preview of this week’s premi... |
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| 2025-01-16 | Paris Marx is joined by Jathan Sadowski to discuss the relationship between technology and capitalism, and what lessons can be taken from the Luddites to properly assess and understand these systems.Jathan Sadowski is is the author of The Mechanic and ... |
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