Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

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The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet w/ Becca Lewis

11/21/2024 • 59 min

Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today.Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to… Play episode

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Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian Merchant
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The Corruption of Open Source w/ tante
Silicon Valley is Reshaping US Democracy w/ Jacob Silverman
Data Vampires: Fighting for Control (Episode 4)
The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry
Data Vampires: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)
The “Dark Elf” Leading Tech’s Extreme Right w/ Julia Black
Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)
Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare w/ Spencer Ackerman
Data Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)
Don’t Fall for Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand w/ Karl Bode
What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara Kneese
Will Google’s Monopoly Be Broken Up? w/ Rob Larson
Google and Meta Are A Threat to Journalism w/ Matt Pearce
Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen
No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner
Crypto Is Spending Millions to Sway the US Election w/ Molly White
Is Social Media Fueling Far-Right Riots? w/ Hussein Kesvani
Shopify’s Right-Wing Inner Circle w/ Luke LeBrun & Rachel Gilmore
Escaping the Processed World w/ Chris Carlsson
Silicon Valley is Backing Donald Trump w/ Jacob Silverman
Generative AI is a Climate Disaster w/ Sasha Luccioni
Jack Dorsey’s Embrace of Crypto-Libertarianism w/ David Gerard
Facebook Is the Zombie Internet w/ Jason Koebler
How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel
Can Europe Chart Its Own Path on Tech? w/ tante
Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha Tiku
How the FBI Tapped the Encrypted Chats of Criminals Around the World w/ Jo…
GoFundMe Profits from People’s Pain w/ Nora Kenworthy
Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco w/ Gil Duran
How BYD is Upending the EV Market w/ Paolo Gerbaudo
Tesla is Choosing Hype Over Substance w/ Edward Niedermeyer
How SHEIN Took Over Fast Fashion w/ Nicole Lipman
The Religious Foundations of Transhumanism w/ Meghan O’Gieblyn
How Sports Betting Is Fueling Gambling Addiction w/ Alex Shephard
Kara Swisher Shows Tech Journalism’s Flaws w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.
Deepfake Abuse is a Crisis w/ Kat Tenbarge
What Elon Musk Won’t Tell You About Settling Mars w/ Zach Weinersmith
What the TikTok Ban Reveals About US Tech Policy w/ Jacob Silverman
Time for a Butlerian Jihad?: A ‘Dune’ Chat w/ Ed Ongweso Jr & Brian Mercha…
Silicon Valley Deserves Your Anger w/ Ed Zitron
Plastic Recycling Is a Scam w/ Dharna Noor
A Setback for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe w/ Ben Wray
How Foreverism Degrades Our Culture w/ Grafton Tanner
How Interfaces Shape Our Relationship to Tech w/ Zachary Kaiser
France’s Start-Up Nation Is a Neoliberal Hell w/ Nastasia Hadjadji
What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor Pickard

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