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Techtonic with Mark Hurst
is a weekly radio show from
WFMU
about technology, how it's affecting us, and what we can do about it.
Mark Hurst
Mark Hurst is a longtime tech veteran.
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Oct 27, 2025: Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan Currell
Oct 20, 2025: Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the techno-Luddites
Oct 13, 2025: The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane
Oct 6, 2025: AI and surveillance keep spreading
Sep 29, 2025: Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream"
Sep 22, 2025: Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows"
Sep 15, 2025: Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood)
Sep 8, 2025: Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic
Sep 1, 2025: Cory Doctorow, author and journalist
Aug 25, 2025: Webb Keane, author, "Animals, Robots, Gods"
Aug 11, 2025: Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever"
Aug 4, 2025: Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis"
Jul 28, 2025: Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth
Jul 21, 2025: Daniel Solove, author, "On Privacy and Technology"
Jul 14, 2025: Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism
Jun 30, 2025: Compulsory surveillance and other threats
Jun 23, 2025: Lori Emerson, author, "Other Networks"
Jun 16, 2025: Unveiling our new theme song by Kirk Pearson, and Big Tech alternatives
Jun 2, 2025: Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, authors, "The AI Con"
May 26, 2025: David Greenwood, author, "The Cloud Intern"
May 19, 2025: Surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard on Facebook's spy glasses
May 12, 2025: Discussing "Careless People" by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams
May 5, 2025: Sybil Derrible, author, "The Infrastructure Book"
Apr 28, 2025: Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies
Apr 14, 2025: John Warner, author, "More Than Words"
Apr 7, 2025: Sue-Lin Wong and online scams
Mar 31, 2025: Emergency surveillance update
Mar 24, 2025: Liz Pelly, author, "Mood Machine"
Mar 17, 2025: Ben Snyder, author, "Spy Plane"
Mar 10, 2025: Marathon week 2 w/cohost Matt Warwick
Mar 3, 2025: Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman
Feb 24, 2025: AI and the future of war – with "Flash Wars" director Daniel Wunderer
Feb 17, 2025: Nick Couldry, author, "The Space of the World"
Feb 10, 2025: August Lamm: you don't need a smartphone
Feb 3, 2025: Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin
Jan 27, 2025: Welcome to the oligarchy: on Big Tech's government takeover
Jan 20, 2025: Kirk Pearson, author, "Electronic Music From Scratch"
Jan 13, 2025: Stone carvers Chris Pellettieri and Arissa Ramoutar
Jan 6, 2025: Ken Freedman and Mark Hurst listen to AI
Dec 30, 2024: Andrew Smith, author, "Devil in the Stack"
Dec 16, 2024: Our year of surveillance
Dec 9, 2024: Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil"
Dec 2, 2024: Nicole Kobie, author, "The Long History of the Future"
Nov 25, 2024: Technology we're thankful for, from listeners
Nov 18, 2024: Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk
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 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 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"
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 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 11, 2023: Guillaume Pitron, author, "The Dark Cloud"
Dec 4, 2023: What tech is hiding
Nov 20, 2023: Kris De Decker, founder, Low-Tech Magazine
Nov 13, 2023: Ed Park, author, "Same Bed Different Dreams"
Nov 6, 2023: Tech villain update: Zuckerberg, Andreessen, Neumann, Bankman-Fried
Oct 30, 2023: Facial recognition w/Kashmir Hill, author, "Your Face Belongs to Us"
Oct 16, 2023: Brian Merchant, author, "Blood in the Machine" – about the Luddites
Oct 9, 2023: Antitrust lawsuits against Google and Amazon