Episodes

• Nov 4, 2024: Dystopia update

• Oct 28, 2024: Members of the Luddite Club

• Oct 21, 2024: Christopher Brown, author, "A Natural History of Empty Lots"

• Oct 14, 2024: Yaroslav Trofimov, author, "Our Enemies Will Vanish"

• Oct 7, 2024: Silkie Carlo, director, Big Brother Watch

• Sep 30, 2024: Tim Schwab, author, "The Bill Gates Problem"

• Sep 23, 2024: What if no one wants AI?

• Sep 16, 2024: Helen Phillips, author, "HUM"

• Sep 9, 2024: Even more devices are spying on you

• Sep 2, 2024: Carl Öhman, author, "The Afterlife of Data"

• Aug 26, 2024: Guest host Alan on Rancho Mastatal

• Aug 19, 2024: Paula Bialski, author, "Middle Tech"

• Aug 12, 2024: Google antitrust decision party

• Aug 5, 2024: Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use

• Jul 29, 2024: Tech and the sandwich generation

• Jul 22, 2024: Guest host Brian D. on disinformation with Kirsten Eddy and Alex Mahadevan

• Jul 15, 2024: Generative AI and the "cesspool internet" – with Jason Koebler

• Jul 8, 2024: How it started, how it's going: revisiting the warnings of the past

• Jul 1, 2024: Carissa Véliz on digital ethics

• Jun 24, 2024: Byron Tau, author, "Means of Control"

• Jun 17, 2024: Listener questions

• Jun 10, 2024: Mark Schatzker and "Food, Inc. 2"

• Jun 3, 2024: Matt Warwick guest hosts Techtonic: What's the best robot?

• May 27, 2024: We should all switch to Linux

• May 20, 2024: What's eating Google?

• May 13, 2024: Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for

• May 6, 2024: "Data Grab" by Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry

• Apr 29, 2024: Michael Shelley on AI-generated music

• Apr 22, 2024: Eve Herold, author, "Robots and the People Who Love Them"

• Apr 15, 2024: Richard Polt, author, "The Typewriter Revolution"

• Apr 8, 2024: Outrage roundup

• Apr 1, 2024: I've been waiting years to say this

• Mar 25, 2024: Guest host Lily Wen interviews Liz Pelly

• Mar 18, 2024: Ian Johnson, author of "Sparks," on China's underground historians

• Mar 11, 2024: Marathon week 2 w/cohost Dave the Spazz

• Mar 4, 2024: Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman

• Feb 26, 2024: Dystopia update

• Feb 19, 2024: Scott Shapiro, author, "Fancy Bear Goes Phishing"

• Feb 12, 2024: Astronomer Sam Lawler on the danger of Starlink satellites

• Feb 5, 2024: Vision Pro: 40 years later, Apple turns into 1984

• Jan 29, 2024: Can we make better choices in tech?

• Jan 22, 2024: Ashley Shew, author, "Against Technoableism"

• Jan 15, 2024: Ben Grosser, artist and creator of Minus, a better social network

• Jan 8, 2024: Jason Koebler, from 404 Media, on cameras from a banned Chinese company

• Jan 1, 2024: Mark discusses neurotech with station manager Ken

• Dec 25, 2023: Your favorite tech gifts

• Dec 18, 2023: What's the BEST app?

• Dec 11, 2023: Guillaume Pitron, author, "The Dark Cloud"

• Dec 4, 2023: What tech is hiding

• Nov 27, 2023: Scott Williams guests hosts