Tech Won't Save Us
Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges 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. It’s not your usual tech podcast.
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Episodes (362)
Mark Zuckerberg is Burning Meta to the Ground w/ Dave Karpf
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Don’t Fall for the Longtermism Sales Pitch w/ Émile P. Torres
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How Tech is Remaking the Food System w/ Jim Thomas
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Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change w/ Adrienne Buller
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Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane
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Science Fiction As Tech Criticism w/ Brian Merchant and Claire Evans
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Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom w/ Thea Riofrancos
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Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard
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Amazon’s Highly Subsidized Foray Into Middle-Earth w/ Thomas Coughlan
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Who’s Winning in China’s Fight Against 996? w/ JS Tan
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How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
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Keep Capitalism Out of Space w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Competition Won’t Fix Canada’s Telecom Woes w/ Fenwick McKelvey
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The Real Legacy of Stewart Brand w/ Malcolm Harris
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How the Cloud Reshaped the Internet w/ Dwayne Monroe
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The Dangers of Tech that Tracks Everything We Do w/ Shoshana Wodinsky
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Tech Won’t Fix the Transport System w/ Paris Marx
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15 Years of the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant
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Canada’s Digital Contact-Tracing Experiment w/ Bianca Wylie
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Technology of the Oppressed w/ David Nemer
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Streaming Wars: Revenge of the Cinema? w/ Gita Jackson
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Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff
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Tech Media Needs to Do Better on Crypto and Elon Musk w/ Ed Zitron
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The Dangerous Ideology of the Tech Elite w/ Émile P. Torres
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(Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash w/ Bennett Tomlin
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The Argument for Half-Earth Socialism w/ Drew Pendergrass & Troy Vettese
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How IBM Workers Took On Racism and Apartheid w/ ann haeyoung
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The Financialization of Everything w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.
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We Can’t Allow Tech Solutions to Delay Climate Action w/ Molly Taft
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Who’s to Blame When a Self-Driving Car Kills Someone? w/ Lauren Smiley
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How to Unionize Amazon w/ Justine Medina & Karen Ponce
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Web3 is Not Going Great w/ Molly White
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Digital Tech Didn’t Democratize the Film Industry w/ Will Tavlin
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Can Higher Interest Rates Tame Big Tech And Inflation? w/ Grace Blakeley
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How Peter Thiel Wields His Power in Silicon Valley w/ Moira Weigel
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War in the Content Economy w/ Ryan Broderick & Hussein Kesvani
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Can Tesla Survive Elon Musk? w/ Edward Niedermeyer
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Cringe Raps and $5 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin w/ Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation w/ Phil Jones
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Crypto Winter Is Coming w/ Jacob Silverman
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Microsoft Wants to Dominate the Games Industry w/ Rob Zacny
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How Evangelicals Emulate Startup Culture w/ Corrina Laughlin
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Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon
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How Roblox Exploits Children w/ Quintin Smith
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Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Science Fiction w/ Annalee Newitz
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The Video Game Industry Needs Unions w/ Gita Jackson
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Web3 is a Scam, Not a Revolution w/ Stephen Diehl
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Who Inspired Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ Space Visions? w/ Fred Scharmen
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Don’t Give Surveillance for Christmas w/ Chris Gilliard
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