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Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster w/ Douglas Rushkoff

Tech Won't Save Us

English - December 08, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 395 ratings
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Paris Marx is joined by Douglas Rushkoff to discuss why internet visions of the 1990s were wrong to ignore corporate power, how the dot-com boom was like a Ponzi scheme, and why we desperately need to stop elevating tech billionaires.

Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His most recent book is Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires and he’s the host of Team Human podcast. You can follow him on Twitter at @rushkoff.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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An excerpt from Survival of the Richest was published in The Guardian.Paris was recently on the Team Human podcast to discuss Road to Nowhere with Douglas.

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