Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin

Feb 3, 2025

Silicon Valley broligarchs are weirdly similar to super-villains in the comics. Mark hosts a group discussion with Greg Epstein, author of the new book “Tech Agnostic”; surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard; and Jim Starlin, renowned Marvel Comics artist and creator of Thanos.

Show Notes

• Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation, by Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain at MIT and Harvard

• hypervisible – Chris Gilliard on Bluesky

• Gofundme for Siwatu Moore, Greg Epstein’s friend who lost his home in the LA fires

• Kickstarter for Jim Starlin’s second Dreadstar book, which was fully funded. The Kickstarter for the third book, “Dreadstar vs. Dreadstar,” hasn’t been posted yet.

Guests: Greg Epstein

Chris Gilliard

Jim Starlin
Host: Mark Hurst
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Aired: Feb 3, 2025