In a bonus episode, Paris Marx is joined by Ed Ongweso Jr. and Brian Merchant to share their thoughts on Dune: Part Two, how it relates to the modern tech industry, and whether today’s Luddites can take anything from Dune’s Butlerian Jihad.
Ed Ongweso Jr is finance editor at Logic(s) Magazine and cohost of This Machine Kills. Brian Merchant is a technology journalist and the author of Blood In the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
Support the Show.
Tech Isn’t Fixing the Crisis on Our Streets w/ David Zipper
Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy w/ Daniel Joseph
Why Visual Effects Look the Way They Do w/ Julie Turnock
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover is a Disaster w/ Hussein Kesvani
Tech Billionaires Are Reshaping US Politics w/ Jacob Silverman
Mark Zuckerberg is Burning Meta to the Ground w/ Dave Karpf
Don’t Fall for the Longtermism Sales Pitch w/ Émile P. Torres
How Tech is Remaking the Food System w/ Jim Thomas
Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change w/ Adrienne Buller
Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane
Science Fiction As Tech Criticism w/ Brian Merchant and Claire Evans
Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom w/ Thea Riofrancos
Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard
Amazon’s Highly Subsidized Foray Into Middle-Earth w/ Thomas Coughlan
Who’s Winning in China’s Fight Against 996? w/ JS Tan
How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
Keep Capitalism Out of Space w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Competition Won’t Fix Canada’s Telecom Woes w/ Fenwick McKelvey
The Real Legacy of Stewart Brand w/ Malcolm Harris
How the Cloud Reshaped the Internet w/ Dwayne Monroe
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Insight Story: Tech Trends Unpacked
Zero-Shot
Fast Forward by Tomorrow Unlocked: Tech past, tech future
The Unbelivable Truth - Series 1 - 26 including specials and pilot
Lex Fridman Podcast