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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 15 hours 10 minutes
episode 1: The Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportation
On this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Paris Marx, host of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, about their upcoming book “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.” They discuss the history of the automobile industry, how Tesla is not a “green company,” why Silicon Valley is lying to you about the self-driving car and their vision for the future of public transport.
You can order Paris’s book here...
episode 14: Time, Space and Social Media: The Politics of Technology and Temporality
A Conversation with Nanna Saeten
episode 12: Elon Musk, Twitter and the ‘Great Men’ of Social Media
A conversation with John Naughton and Josh Simons
episode 11: ‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity
David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata about why corporations are robots, how singularity might have already come about, why we should think seriously about the political philosophy of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, and what technologies he worries about in the future...
episode 9: The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons
A conversation with Dr Siân Brooke