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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Bitcoin is a Right-Wing Technology w/ David Golumbia
Paris Marx is joined by David Golumbia to discuss the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, the right-wing politics of cryptocurrencies and blockchains, and why the left shouldn’t embrace them.David Golum…
00:52:18 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
VCs Want to Disrupt the Media w/ Eoin Higgins
Paris Marx is joined by Eoin Higgins to discuss why tech companies and venture capital firms are launching their own media verticals, what Marc Andreessen hopes to get out of Clubhouse and Substack, …
00:36:51 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
Facebook Is A Battleground w/ Avi Asher-Schapiro and Maya Gebeily
Paris Marx is joined by Avi Asher-Schapiro and Maya Gebeily to discuss how Facebook isn’t fully enforcing its ban on conversion therapy in Arabic, what that means for LGBTQ people in Arabic-speaking …
00:41:48 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Embracing Glitch Feminism w/ Legacy Russell
Paris Marx is joined by Legacy Russell to discuss how glitch feminism challenges existing ideas of what constitutes the body and the effects of having those conceptions embedded within our technologi…
00:47:17 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
The Sunset of the Californian Ideology? w/ Richard Barbrook
Paris Marx is joined by Richard Barbrook to discuss how the Californian Ideology illustrated the neoliberalism of Silicon Valley, whether it’s still relevant in the present, and how games can be used…
01:03:06 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet w/ Benjamin Peters
Paris Marx is joined by Benjamin Peters to discuss the proposals for national computer networks in the Soviet Union, the challenges they faced in getting approval, and what lessons they hold for how …
01:01:21 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Project Cybersyn Shows All Tech is Political w/ Eden Medina
Paris Marx is joined by Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile’s socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about polit…
01:02:20 |
Thu 20 May 2021
How Many Times Has the Internet Already Died? w/ Kevin Driscoll
Paris Marx is joined by Kevin Driscoll to discuss the history of France’s Minitel system, the insights it provides about the modern platform economy, and whether the internet will one day be shut dow…
01:04:28 |
Thu 13 May 2021
How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara
Paris Marx is joined by Margaret O’Mara to discuss how the state and military have been at the center of the US tech industry since the very beginning, but how it was written out of the popular narra…
00:58:15 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Celebrating One Year of Tech Won’t Save Us!
Paris Marx is solo this week, providing an update on the podcast, the series of guests planned for May, and what’s coming next for Tech Won’t Save Us!Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective …
00:29:44 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
What’s Next for Amazon Workers? w/ Kim Kelly
Paris Marx is joined by Kim Kelly to discuss what it was like on the ground in Bessemer as workers tried to form a union at Amazon, the mood after the results came in, and where the organizing effort…
00:50:01 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Vaccine Passports Are Not the Solution w/ Elizabeth Renieris
Paris Marx is joined by Elizabeth Renieris to discuss why we should be concerned about proposals for vaccine passports and how they could create a precedent for a larger rollout of digital identity d…
00:49:36 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Bursting the NFT Bubble w/ Jacob Silverman
Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the implications of the recent NFT boom, the libertarian ideology that underpins crypto, and where the hype economy goes from here.Jacob Silverman i…
00:45:49 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Digital Redlining in the Frictionless Society w/ Chris Gilliard
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how decisions by powerful institutions over how to implement new technologies in cities, education, health, and more have the effect of creating a fo…
00:49:26 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Elon Musk Isn’t Saving Humanity w/ Manu Saadia
Paris Marx is joined by Manu Saadia to discuss the roots of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ visions for space, and why they serve the billionaires’ need for control, not the betterment of humanity.Manu Saa…
00:51:10 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks
Paris Marx is joined by Mar Hicks to discuss why we need to know the history of tech and how the British history of sexism and colonialism in computing has lessons for the present-day US tech industr…
00:54:05 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Is Bill Gates a “Good” Billionaire? w/ Tim Schwab
Paris Marx is joined by Tim Schwab to discuss how Bill Gates wields his wealth to shape public policy, the many conflicts of interest of Bill and his Foundation, and how legitimate criticism of power…
00:53:50 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
How Algorithms Are Transforming Work w/ Callum Cant
Paris Marx is joined by Callum Cant to discuss the UK Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers are workers, his experience organizing as a Deliveroo worker, and how algorithmic management is transformi…
00:56:44 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
Why We Need a Luddite Politics of Tech w/ Gavin Mueller
Paris Marx is joined by Gavin Mueller to discuss who the Luddites really were, what they can teach us about how we think about technology today, and why they show the need for a decelerationist polit…
00:55:30 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News w/ Lizzie O’Shea
Paris Marx is joined by Lizzie O’Shea to discuss how Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers entrenches a data-extractive business model and aligns the interests of tech gian…
00:45:56 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
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