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
How Indonesian Gig Workers Are Organizing w/ Rida Qadri
Paris Marx is joined by Rida Qadri to discuss how gig workers in Jakarta created networks of mutual aid in the face of a lack of support from companies and the government, and how their experiences s…
00:54:04 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Amazon’s Vigorous Opposition to Unions w/ Lauren Kaori Gurley
Paris Marx is joined by Lauren Kaori Gurley to discuss how Amazon surveils workers to stop them from organizing, the difficult working conditions in warehouses and for delivery drivers, and whether J…
00:41:21 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner
Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss how social media constantly resurfaces the past, why film and television uses nostalgia to keep us engaged, and whether there’s a way to wield nostal…
00:51:02 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
How YouTube Normalizes Right-Wing Extremism w/ Becca Lewis
Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss YouTube’s history of incentivizing extreme content, how the storming of the US Capitol shows the power of media spectacle, and why we should see social …
00:51:02 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Why We Need a Democratic Approach to Data w/ Salomé Viljoen
Paris Marx is joined by Salomé Viljoen to discuss existing proposals to expand individual data rights or treat it as a form of labor, why we instead need to see data governance as a collective democr…
00:43:43 |
Thu 14 Jan 2021
The Frictionless World of Silicon Valley w/ Anna Wiener
Paris Marx is joined by Anna Wiener to discuss her journey into the tech industry, how Silicon Valley’s desire for a “frictionless” world is affecting culture, and why it’s important to analyze Subst…
00:50:28 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna
Paris Marx is joined by Mathew Lawrence and Thomas Hanna to discuss the problems with platforms, why antitrust alone is not enough to fix them, and how we can encourage the creation of democratic pla…
01:03:22 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
The Complex Systems that Govern Our Lives w/ Tim Maughan
Paris Marx is joined by Tim Maughan to discuss the exploitative infrastructures that make the modern world possible, how complex technological systems rob us of our power to control our collective de…
00:57:15 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
How Urban Tech Increases Corporate Control w/ David Banks
Paris Marx is joined by David Banks to discuss how tech solutions to increase corporate control in cities will be sold to us as fun and convenient, and what that will actually means for access and eq…
00:54:28 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Why Game and Tech Workers Are Organizing w/ Emma Kinema
Paris Marx is joined by Emma Kinema to discuss how workers are organizing in the video game and tech industries, the challenges faced by those workers, and the importance of organizing to improve wor…
00:57:57 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Fighting for Gig Workers’ Rights After Prop 22 w/ Wilfred Chan
Paris Marx is joined by Wilfred Chan to discuss how gig companies misled California voters to back Prop 22, whether the Biden administration will be an ally to gig workers, and the need for solidarit…
00:38:16 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
How Spotify is Built On Artist Exploitation w/ Liz Pelly
Paris Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how the Spotify model of streaming music continues a long trend of exploitation in the music industry and why musicians need to organize around a vision f…
00:43:47 |
Thu 26 Nov 2020
The Injury Crisis in Amazon Warehouses w/ Will Evans
Paris Marx is joined by Will Evans to discuss how excessive productivity targets are causing high rates of injury at Amazon warehouses, how executives have misled the public about the problem, and wh…
00:36:29 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
How Video Games are Shaped by Capitalism w/ Daniel Joseph
Paris Marx is joined by Daniel Joseph to discuss the relationship between video games and capitalism, how the gaming experience has become increasingly commercialized, and what the new consoles — Xbo…
00:47:46 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
Jobs Suck, But Not Because of Automation w/ Aaron Benanav
Paris Marx is joined by Aaron Benanav to discuss why jobs are getting worse because the economy’s slowing down, not because technology is speeding up, and why that requires a vision of post-scarcity …
00:48:22 |
Thu 05 Nov 2020
Section 230 Protects Free Expression Online w/ Evan Greer
Paris Marx is joined by Evan Greer to discuss Republican and Democratic desires to amend or revoke Section 230, why the proposals won’t solve problems with Big Tech, and the international implication…
00:46:25 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
What Rural China Teaches Us About the Future of Tech w/ Xiaowei Wang
Paris Marx is joined by Xiaowei Wang to discuss how technology is being used to connect rural China to global supply chains, what that means for life and work in those communities, and how China also…
00:43:40 |
Thu 22 Oct 2020
Why Google’s Ad Business Could Implode w/ Tim Hwang
Paris Marx is joined by Tim Hwang to discuss how digital ad markets became financialized, why Google and Facebook have an incentive to hide how poorly digital ads actually work, and how a financial b…
00:41:42 |
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Silicon Valley is Embracing Anti-China Nationalism w/ JS Tan
Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss the internet’s connection with neoliberalism, China’s protectionist measures to develop its own tech industry, and how the new tensions between the United St…
00:34:54 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
Major Publishers Want to Shut Down Digital Lending w/ Maria Bustillos
Paris Marx is joined by Maria Bustillos to discuss the important work of the Internet Archive, why it opened a digital National Emergency Library during the pandemic, how access to culture is essenti…
00:45:22 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
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