Episodes

• Our year of surveillance

  Dec 16, 2024

• Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil"

  Dec 9, 2024

• Nicole Kobie, author, "The Long History of the Future"

  Dec 2, 2024

• Technology we're thankful for, from listeners

  Nov 25, 2024

• Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk

  Nov 18, 2024

• Guest host Station Mgr Ken interviews David Suisman on music and the military

  Nov 11, 2024

• Dystopia update

  Nov 4, 2024

• Members of the Luddite Club

  Oct 28, 2024

• Christopher Brown, author, "A Natural History of Empty Lots"

  Oct 21, 2024

• Yaroslav Trofimov, author, "Our Enemies Will Vanish"

  Oct 14, 2024

• Silkie Carlo, director, Big Brother Watch

  Oct 7, 2024

• Tim Schwab, author, "The Bill Gates Problem"

  Sep 30, 2024

• What if no one wants AI?

  Sep 23, 2024

• Helen Phillips, author, "HUM"

  Sep 16, 2024

• Even more devices are spying on you

  Sep 9, 2024

• Carl Öhman, author, "The Afterlife of Data"

  Sep 2, 2024

• Guest host Alan on Rancho Mastatal

  Aug 26, 2024

• Paula Bialski, author, "Middle Tech"

  Aug 19, 2024

• Google antitrust decision party

  Aug 12, 2024

• Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use

  Aug 5, 2024

• Tech and the sandwich generation

  Jul 29, 2024

• Guest host Brian D. on disinformation with Kirsten Eddy and Alex Mahadevan

  Jul 22, 2024

• Generative AI and the "cesspool internet" – with Jason Koebler

  Jul 15, 2024

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

  Jul 8, 2024

• Carissa Véliz on digital ethics

  Jul 1, 2024

• Byron Tau, author, "Means of Control"

  Jun 24, 2024

• Listener questions

  Jun 17, 2024

• Mark Schatzker and "Food, Inc. 2"

  Jun 10, 2024

• Matt Warwick guest hosts Techtonic: What's the best robot?

  Jun 3, 2024

• We should all switch to Linux

  May 27, 2024

• What's eating Google?

  May 20, 2024

• Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for

  May 13, 2024

• "Data Grab" by Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry

  May 6, 2024

• Michael Shelley on AI-generated music

  Apr 29, 2024

• Eve Herold, author, "Robots and the People Who Love Them"

  Apr 22, 2024

• Richard Polt, author, "The Typewriter Revolution"

  Apr 15, 2024

• Outrage roundup

  Apr 8, 2024

• I've been waiting years to say this

  Apr 1, 2024

• Guest host Lily Wen interviews Liz Pelly

  Mar 25, 2024

• Ian Johnson, author of "Sparks," on China's underground historians

  Mar 18, 2024

• Marathon week 2 w/cohost Dave the Spazz

  Mar 11, 2024

• Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman

  Mar 4, 2024

• Dystopia update

  Feb 26, 2024

• Scott Shapiro, author, "Fancy Bear Goes Phishing"

  Feb 19, 2024

• Astronomer Sam Lawler on the danger of Starlink satellites

  Feb 12, 2024

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

  Feb 5, 2024

• Can we make better choices in tech?

  Jan 29, 2024

• Ashley Shew, author, "Against Technoableism"

  Jan 22, 2024

• Ben Grosser, artist and creator of Minus, a better social network

  Jan 15, 2024

• Jason Koebler, from 404 Media, on cameras from a banned Chinese company

  Jan 8, 2024