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
- 2025-01-18 02:59
- last episode published
- 2025-01-16 03:00
- publication frequency
- 6.47 days
- Contributors
- Paris Marx
- Author
- Paris Marx
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 270
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- News Politics Technology Arts Books
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2025-01-13 |
Patreon Preview: How Big Tech Made the Cloud w/ Dwayne Monroe 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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| 2025-01-09 | Paris Marx is joined by Will Tavlin to discuss how the Netflix model transformed film into the Typical Netflix Movie and how the company uses claims about data to deceive the public.Will Tavlin is a New York-based writer who has written for n+1, Bookfo... |
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| 2025-01-02 | Paris Marx is joined by Cecilia Rikap to discuss the ways Amazon, Microsoft, and Google gain power from companies becoming dependent on their cloud services and how generative AI exacerbates that problem.Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Econo... |
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| 2024-12-26 | Paris Marx is joined by Ali Alkhatib to discuss the difficulty of holding the AI industry accountable and why sometimes it makes sense for people to destroy AI systems that are harming them.Ali Alkhatib works with Logic(s) magazine and was previously t... |
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| 2024-12-19 |
The Year in Tech w/ Molly White, Brian Merchant, & Eric Wickham Paris Marx is joined by Molly White, Brian Merchant, and Eric Wickham to discuss the highs and lows (mostly lows) of this year in tech news.Molly White is the creator of Web3 is Going Just Great and Follow the Crypto. Brian Merchant is my co-host on Sy... |
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| 2024-12-12 | Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the data-informed decisions that are changing the way we all experience air travel, mostly for the worse. Amanda Mull is a senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek.Tech Won’t Sa... |
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| 2024-12-10 |
Patreon Preview: Spain Doesn’t Have Water for Data Centers w/ Aurora Gomez Delgado 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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| 2024-12-05 | Paris Marx is joined by Cam Wilson to discuss Australia’s plan to ban under-16s from social media, the interests driving it, and whether it’s the right approach to tackle the harms of those platforms.Cam Wilson is associate editor at Crikey.Tech Won’t ... |
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| 2024-12-03 |
Patreon Preview: The Crippling Energy Demand of Ireland’s Data Centers w/ Brid Smith 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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