Special Archives
for Techtonic with Mark Hurst
on WFMU
Interviews, Live Music and other specials, all available on demand.
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This page last updated April 26, 2025
Techtonic with Mark Hurst
Sue-Lin Wong and online scams. From
April 7, 2025.
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Liz Pelly, author, "Mood Machine" From
March 24, 2025.
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Ben Snyder, author, "Spy Plane" From
March 17, 2025.
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AI and the future of war – with "Flash Wars" director Daniel Wunderer. From
February 24, 2025.
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Nick Couldry, author, "The Space of the World" From
February 17, 2025.
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August Lamm: you don't need a smartphone. From
February 10, 2025.
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Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin. From
February 3, 2025.
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Kirk Pearson, author, "Electronic Music From Scratch" From
January 20, 2025.
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Stone carvers Chris Pellettieri and Arissa Ramoutar. From
January 13, 2025.
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Ken Freedman and Mark Hurst listen to AI. From
January 6, 2025.
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Andrew Smith, author, "Devil in the Stack" From
December 30, 2024.
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Guest host Don Fleming: Musical Tech: Naughty or Nice? From
December 23, 2024.
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Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil" From
December 9, 2024.
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Nicole Kobie, author, "The Long History of the Future" From
December 2, 2024.
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Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk. From
November 18, 2024.
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Guest host Station Mgr Ken interviews David Suisman on music and the military. From
November 11, 2024.
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Christopher Brown, author, "A Natural History of Empty Lots" From
October 21, 2024.
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Yaroslav Trofimov, author, "Our Enemies Will Vanish" From
October 14, 2024.
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Silkie Carlo, director, Big Brother Watch. From
October 7, 2024.
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Tim Schwab, author, "The Bill Gates Problem" From
September 30, 2024.
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Helen Phillips, author, "HUM" From
September 16, 2024.
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Carl Öhman, author, "The Afterlife of Data" From
September 2, 2024.
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Guest host Alan on Rancho Mastatal. From
August 26, 2024.
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Paula Bialski, author, "Middle Tech" From
August 19, 2024.
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Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use. From
August 5, 2024.
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Guest host Brian D. on disinformation with Kirsten Eddy and Alex Mahadevan. From
July 22, 2024.
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Generative AI and the "cesspool internet" – with Jason Koebler. From
July 15, 2024.
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Carissa Véliz on digital ethics. From
July 1, 2024.
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Byron Tau, author, "Means of Control" From
June 24, 2024.
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Mark Schatzker and "Food, Inc. 2" From
June 10, 2024.
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Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for. From
May 13, 2024.
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"Data Grab" by Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry. From
May 6, 2024.
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Michael Shelley on AI-generated music. From
April 29, 2024.
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Eve Herold, author, "Robots and the People Who Love Them" From
April 22, 2024.
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Richard Polt, author, "The Typewriter Revolution" From
April 15, 2024.
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Guest host Lily Wen interviews Liz Pelly. From
March 25, 2024.
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Ian Johnson, author of "Sparks," on China's underground historians. From
March 18, 2024.
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Scott Shapiro, author, "Fancy Bear Goes Phishing" From
February 19, 2024.
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Astronomer Sam Lawler on the danger of Starlink satellites. From
February 12, 2024.
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Ashley Shew, author, "Against Technoableism" From
January 22, 2024.
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Ben Grosser, artist and creator of Minus, a better social network. From
January 15, 2024.
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Jason Koebler, from 404 Media, on cameras from a banned Chinese company. From
January 8, 2024.
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Guillaume Pitron, author, "The Dark Cloud" From
December 11, 2023.
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Kris De Decker, founder, Low-Tech Magazine. From
November 20, 2023.
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Ed Park, author, "Same Bed Different Dreams" From
November 13, 2023.
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Facial recognition w/Kashmir Hill, author, "Your Face Belongs to Us" From
October 30, 2023.
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Brian Merchant, author, "Blood in the Machine" – about the Luddites. From
October 16, 2023.
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JOB playwright Max Friedlich. From
October 2, 2023.
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Michael Hearst discusses his new Mean Marcus album, "Say Hello To The Party" From
September 18, 2023.
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Disaster alerts: Jeannette Sutton, Ken Freedman and Mark discuss. From
September 11, 2023.
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Coco Krumme, author, "Optimal Illusions" From
September 4, 2023.
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Tamara Kneese, author of "Death Glitch" From
August 28, 2023.
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Boondoggle's Pat Garofalo on Amazon's data-center scam. From
August 14, 2023.
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Bruce Schneier, author, "A Hacker's Mind" From
July 31, 2023.
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Josh O'Kane, author of "Sideways," on Google's failure in Toronto. From
July 24, 2023.
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Paul Salopek on walking through "the handmade world" From
June 26, 2023.
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Ridiculing Apple's Vision Pro headset with Paris Marx. From
June 19, 2023.
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David Auerbach on Meganets, AI, national digital identity apps and Clever Hans, the equine faux mathlete. From
June 5, 2023.
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Harold Burris-Meyer and manipulative sound, feat. Ted Houghtaling. From
May 29, 2023.
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Mark tries to convince Matt Warwick to say no to a brain chip. From
May 15, 2023.
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Nita Farahany, author, "The Battle for Your Brain" From
May 8, 2023.
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How working in the tech industry has changed, with WFMU's Dave Mandl. From
May 1, 2023.
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Meredith Broussard, author, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" From
April 17, 2023.
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Sandrine Rigaud, co-author, "Pegasus" From
March 27, 2023.
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Cory Doctorow, author, "Chokepoint Capitalism" From
March 20, 2023.
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Gaylord Fields discusses Spotify's AI DJ. From
February 27, 2023.
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Joe Turow, author, "Americans Can't Consent to Companies' Use of Their Data" From
February 20, 2023.
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Susan Linn, author, "Who's Raising the Kids?" From
February 13, 2023.
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Torie Bosch, editor, “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”. From
January 30, 2023.
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Sarah Lamdan, author, "Data Cartels" From
January 23, 2023.
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Craig Silverman and Google's ad business of "porn, piracy, and fraud" From
January 16, 2023.
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Darren Byler, co-translator of "The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang" From
December 19, 2022.
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Rachel Ignotofsky, author, "The History of the Computer" From
December 12, 2022.
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On game design: Eric Zimmerman, author, "The Rules We Break" From
December 5, 2022.
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David Sax, author, "The Future is Analog" From
November 21, 2022.
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Carissa Véliz, author, "Privacy is Power" From
November 7, 2022.
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Adrian Hon, author, "You've Been Played" From
October 24, 2022.
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Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. From
October 17, 2022.
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Douglas Rushkoff on his new book, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires" From
October 3, 2022.
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Subways and surveillance - with Christopher Robbins from Hell Gate. From
September 26, 2022.
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Aaron Sachs, author, "Up from the Depths" – on Melville, Mumford, and difficult times. From
September 19, 2022.
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Molly Osberg and New York's new Link5G surveillance towers. From
August 22, 2022.
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James Bridle, author, "Ways of Being" From
August 8, 2022.
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Paris Marx, author, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" From
July 25, 2022.
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Ben Tarnoff, author, "Internet for the People" From
July 18, 2022.
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Jonathan Crary, author, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" From
June 27, 2022.
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Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House" From
June 13, 2022.
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Jeff Deutsch, author, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" From
May 30, 2022.
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Perry Metzger interview (cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin), with guest host Dave Mandl. From
May 16, 2022.
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Carolyn Chen, author, "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley" From
May 9, 2022.
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On Musk and Twitter – with Paul Bradley Carr. From
May 2, 2022.
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Paul Salopek is walking "Out of Eden" and around the world. From
April 25, 2022.
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Why you should be worried about data brokers. From
April 18, 2022.
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Sasha Stiles, poet and artist, on her book "Technelegy" From
April 11, 2022.
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Justin E. H. Smith, author, "The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is" From
April 4, 2022.
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Ethan Gutmann on digital spycraft in human rights work in China. From
March 28, 2022.
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Damon Krukowski on the Bandcamp purchase. From
March 21, 2022.
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Kelly Weill, author, "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything" From
February 21, 2022.
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Alec MacGillis, author, "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" From
February 7, 2022.
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Tonight's Programme: Station Manager Ken and You Discuss the Neil Young vs Spotify Brouuhaha. From
January 31, 2022.
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Dave Holmes, creator, "Waiting for Impact" podcast. From
January 24, 2022.
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Darren Byler, author, "In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony" From
January 17, 2022.
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Station Manager Ken joins for a game of "Who Said It" From
January 3, 2022.
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Mark Schatzker, author, "The End of Craving" From
December 27, 2021.
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Gretchen Peters, exec director of ACCO, on crime and corruption online. From
December 13, 2021.
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Steve Elkins, director, "Echoes of the Invisible" From
December 6, 2021.
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Station Manager Ken Guest Hosts Techtonic Tonight. From
November 29, 2021.
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Paul Bradley Carr, author, 1414º. From
November 15, 2021.
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Tyson Yunkaporta, author, "Sand Talk" From
November 8, 2021.
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David Yoon, author, "Version Zero" From
November 1, 2021.
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"Red Heaven" directors Lauren DeFilippo & Katherine Gorringe. From
October 25, 2021.
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David Bodanis, author, "The Art of Fairness" From
October 11, 2021.
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Joe Turow, author, "The Voice Catchers" From
September 27, 2021.
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Decentralizing computers with Dave Ackley, founder of the T2 Tile Project. From
September 13, 2021.
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Matt Warwick on cryptocurrencies and dodgy smartphone apps. From
September 6, 2021.
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Shannon Mattern, author, "A City Is Not a Computer" From
August 23, 2021.
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The WeWork fiasco - with Eliot Brown, author, "The Cult of We" From
August 16, 2021.
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Vaccine apps - with Albert Fox Cahn. From
August 9, 2021.
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Sports and tech, and a few movie picks, with Mark's friend Paul. From
August 2, 2021.
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Jon Fasman, author, "We See It All" From
July 19, 2021.
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Annette LeMay Burke, photographer and author, "Fauxliage" From
July 12, 2021.
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Craig Taylor, author, "New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time" From
June 28, 2021.
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Cook, Khan, crypto, Christie's, corona complicity... and Pink Floyd. From
June 21, 2021.
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Amelia Pang, author, "Made in China," on forced labor creating American products. From
June 7, 2021.
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Managing photos with Marci Brennan & Chris George from Past Present Pix. From
May 17, 2021.
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Pete Davis, author, "Dedicated" From
May 10, 2021.
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Dennis Glover, author, "Factory 19" From
April 26, 2021.
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Bob Ostertag, musician and author, "Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat" From
April 19, 2021.
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The Problem with Head Transplants, with Dr. Brandy Schillace. From
April 12, 2021.
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Tim Harford, author, "The Data Detective" From
April 5, 2021.
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Paul Kingsnorth, author, "Alexandria" From
March 22, 2021.
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Nabiha Syed, president, The Markup. From
March 1, 2021.
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Annie Jacobsen, author, "First Platoon" From
February 22, 2021.
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Andrea Pitzer, author, "Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World" From
February 15, 2021.
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Station Manager Ken and Mark Discuss the WFMU Comments Community. From
February 8, 2021.
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Adrian Daub, author, "What Tech Calls Thinking" From
February 1, 2021.
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Jonathan Lethem, author, "The Arrest" From
January 25, 2021.
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Sarah Brayne, author, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing." From
January 18, 2021.
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Big Tech and insurrection - discussing with station manager Ken Freedman. From
January 11, 2021.
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The past and future of the office with Sheila Liming, author of "Office" From
January 4, 2021.
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Station Manager Ken with Poet and Author Elisa Gabbert on Doomscrolling, Contagious Conversion Disorder and More. From
December 21, 2020.
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J. Khadijah Abdurahman on Timnit Gebru's firing and "the moral collapse" of AI ethics. From
December 14, 2020.
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Adrian Hon, author, "A New History of the Future in 100 Objects" From
November 30, 2020.
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Gizmodo's Shoshana Wodinsky on Spotify. From
November 23, 2020.
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Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, "Voices from the Valley" From
November 16, 2020.
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William Deresiewicz, author, "The Death of the Artist" From
November 2, 2020.
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Station Manager Ken Fills in: Interview with Author & Journalist Matt Taibbi. From
October 26, 2020.
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Is it safe to use the new Covid Alert app? with Daniel Kahn Gillmor, aka dkg. From
October 19, 2020.
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The video game audio challenge, with DJ Paradox. From
October 12, 2020.
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Alan Jacobs, author, "Breaking Bread with the Dead" From
October 5, 2020.
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Ken Freedman fills in. From
September 28, 2020.
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Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes. From
September 21, 2020.
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Steve Lambert, artist and activist. From
September 14, 2020.
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Cory Doctorow, author, "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" From
September 7, 2020.
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Ben Hunt, from Epsilon Theory, on corruption in finance & tech. From
August 31, 2020.
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Katie Mack, author, "The End of Everything" From
August 24, 2020.
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Elaine Kasket, author, "All the Ghosts in the Machine" - on the afterlife of data. From
August 17, 2020.
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Joel Kotkin, author, "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism" From
August 10, 2020.
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The Big Tech hearings - and Lisa Macpherson from Public Knowledge. From
August 3, 2020.
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Discussing free speech with Scott Johnston, author, "Campusland" From
July 27, 2020.
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Ed Park, author of "Personal Days," on reading during a pandemic. From
July 20, 2020.
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Ben Green, author, "The Smart Enough City" From
July 6, 2020.
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Jason Fried, cofounder of Basecamp, on launching Hey.com, a new email service. From
June 15, 2020.
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Chris Gilliard on Big Tech companies exploiting the very community they claim to support. From
June 8, 2020.
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Ryan Walsh, discussing the OpenAI Jukebox. From
June 1, 2020.
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Steven Levy, author, "Facebook: The Inside Story" From
May 25, 2020.
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Jathan Sadowski, author, "Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World" From
May 11, 2020.
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Movies covering pandemics, dystopias, AI, and tech gadgets - chosen by Mark's friend Paul in Atlanta. From
May 4, 2020.
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Contact tracing, pros and cons - with Daniel Kahn Gillmor, ACLU senior staff technologist. From
April 27, 2020.
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Toby Ord, author, "The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity" From
April 20, 2020.
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David Sax, author, "The Soul of an Entrepreneur" From
April 13, 2020.
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Chris Gilliard on surveillance during corona. From
April 6, 2020.
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Kyle Chayka, author, "The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism" From
March 30, 2020.
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Albert Fox Cahn and Liz O'Sullivan from Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. From
March 23, 2020.
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Special reporter Dan Casey on recent tech news. From
March 16, 2020.
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Rana Foroohar, author, "Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All Of Us" From
February 24, 2020.
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Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, founder, Pivot for Humanity. From
February 17, 2020.
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David Courtwright, author, "The Age of Addiction" From
February 3, 2020.
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Melanie Mitchell, author, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" From
January 27, 2020.
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Jonathan Fischer, Slate's tech editor, on "The Evil List" From
January 20, 2020.
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Aaron Roth, co-author, "The Ethical Algorithm" From
January 13, 2020.
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Station Manager Ken Freedman on tech trends in 2020. From
January 6, 2020.
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Matt Klinman and Sam West, creators of "Smartr" podcast series. From
December 16, 2019.
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Doug Hill, author, "Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology" From
December 9, 2019.
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Joe Hollier, co-founder, The Light Phone. From
December 2, 2019.
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Voices in tech: Sacha Baron Cohen, Aral Balkan, and Dr. Chris Gilliard. From
November 25, 2019.
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Whistleblowers in tech - w/Jack Poulson, Irene Knapp, Liz O'Sullivan, and Delphine Halgand. From
November 18, 2019.
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Tim Maughan, author, "Infinite Detail" From
November 11, 2019.
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NYC Mesh, a community-owned network: Scott Rasmussen and Jillian Murphy. From
November 4, 2019.
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Bron Gondwana, CEO of Fastmail. From
October 28, 2019.
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Station Manager Ken Freedman: human-on-robot violence. From
October 21, 2019.
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Astra Taylor, author, "Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss it When It’s Gone" From
October 14, 2019.
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David Dichelle, live from Leipzig, Germany (and host of Continental Subway on Give the Drummer Radio) From
October 7, 2019.
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Luther Lowe, from Yelp, on Google anti-trust. From
September 23, 2019.
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Sarah T. Roberts, author of "Behind the Screen," on content moderators. From
September 16, 2019.
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Arthur Holland Michel, author, "Eyes in the Sky" From
September 9, 2019.
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Carl Miller, author, "The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab" From
September 2, 2019.
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Jeremiah Moss, author, "Vanishing New York" From
August 26, 2019.
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Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann on their new book "Super Thinking" (and Duck Duck Go) From
August 19, 2019.
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Amy Webb, author of "The Big Nine," talks about AI and our future. From
August 12, 2019.
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Juliette Kayyem on terrorism; Neuralink's mind-reading device; and Libra. From
July 29, 2019.
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Matt Stroud, author, "Thin Blue Lie" From
July 15, 2019.
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Archive show: Shoshana Zuboff, author, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" From
July 1, 2019.
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Scott Urban, "privacy eyewear" designer. From
June 24, 2019.
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Damon Krukowski, podcaster and author, "Ways of Hearing" From
June 17, 2019.
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Jenny Odell, author, "How to Do Nothing" From
June 10, 2019.
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Joseph Menn, author, "Cult of the Dead Cow" From
June 3, 2019.
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Justin E. H. Smith, author, "Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason" From
May 27, 2019.
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Daniel J. Clark, director of "Behind the Curve," on Flat Earthers. From
May 20, 2019.
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Shoshana Zuboff, author, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" From
May 13, 2019.
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Roger McNamee, author, "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe" From
May 6, 2019.
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Clive Thompson, author, "Coders" From
April 15, 2019.
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Kevin Dugan, New York Post reporter, on Earnin app. From
March 25, 2019.
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Nis Frome on losing weight in the digital age. From
March 18, 2019.
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Tim Harford, author and economist, on kicking his smartphone addiction (plus, a cameo by Catherine Price!) From
February 25, 2019.
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Maxim Pozdorovkin, director, "The Truth About Killer Robots" From
February 18, 2019.
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Matt Novak, editor of Paleofuture, on past visions of the future. From
February 11, 2019.
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Prof. Susan Crawford, author, "Fiber" From
February 4, 2019.
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Douglas Rushkoff, author, "Team Human" From
January 28, 2019.
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Prof. Safiya Noble, author, "Algorithms of Oppression" From
January 21, 2019.
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David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker) on music in the digital age. From
January 14, 2019.
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Station Manager Ken Freedman on tech in 2019. From
January 7, 2019.
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Matt Haughey on getting scammed, and the Internet in 2018. From
December 31, 2018.
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Dava Whisenant, director, "Bathtubs Over Broadway" From
December 17, 2018.
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Rex Sorgatz, author, "The Encyclopedia of Misinformation" From
December 10, 2018.
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Letting go of the iPhone: Mark's friend Brian tells his story. From
December 3, 2018.
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Jonathan Tepper, author, "The Myth of Capitalism" From
November 26, 2018.
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Frank Pasquale, author of "The Black Box Society," on secret algorithms. From
November 19, 2018.
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M.T. Anderson predicted the future in his novel "Feed" From
November 12, 2018.
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Ava Kofman, from The Intercept, on LinkNYC kiosks. From
November 5, 2018.
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WFMU's Jesse Jarnow on his book "Heads" and the early Internet's psychedelic history. From
October 29, 2018.
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Yasha Levine, author, "Surveillance Valley" From
October 22, 2018.
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Station Manager Ken Freedman on algorithms - and a new Scam Roundup. From
October 15, 2018.
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AI-inspired music with Jamie Brew, Botnik cofounder. From
October 8, 2018.
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Douglas Durst and the National Debt Clock. From
October 1, 2018.
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M.A. Taylor, director, "The Creepy Line" - and Dr. Robert Epstein. From
September 24, 2018.
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What happened when Jessamyn West sued Equifax. From
September 17, 2018.
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Ali Latifi, journalist in Afghanistan. From
September 3, 2018.
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James Bridle, author of "New Dark Age" From
August 13, 2018.
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Matt Warwick, host of Garbage Time on WFMU, reveals his favorite apps. From
August 6, 2018.
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Dr. Robert Epstein: watching Google manipulate the world. From
July 30, 2018.
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Paul Ford, from Ftrain and Postlight, live in-studio. From
July 23, 2018.
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Jaron Lanier, author, "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" From
July 16, 2018.
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Less texting, more hugging: Mobile Steam Unit sings songs about tech. From
July 9, 2018.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan, author "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy" From
June 25, 2018.
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John Keating, director, "Gamechangers: Dreams of Blizzcon" From
June 18, 2018.
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Brett Frischmann, co-author, "Re-Engineering Humanity" From
June 11, 2018.
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Andrew Keen, author, "How to Fix the Future" From
June 4, 2018.
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Meredith Broussard, author, "Artificial Unintelligence" From
May 28, 2018.
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Felix Salmon, financial journalist, live in-studio. From
May 21, 2018.
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David Sax, author, "The Revenge of Analog" From
May 14, 2018.
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Anya Kamenetz, author, "The Art of Screen Time" From
May 7, 2018.
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Corey Pein on his new book, "Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley" From
April 30, 2018.
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Columbia Business School prof. Len Sherman on business models online. From
April 23, 2018.
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Catherine Price, author, "How to Break Up With Your Phone" From
April 16, 2018.
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Henry Lowengard, aka Webhamster Henry, on tech at WFMU and beyond. From
April 9, 2018.
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Dylan Curran on Google's surveillance - and, of course, Facebook. From
April 2, 2018.
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Explaining cryptocurrency w/Alex George, Popular Mechanics - and Mark on #deletefacebook. From
March 26, 2018.
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Mathew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review's chief digital writer, on the Facebook Armageddon. From
March 19, 2018.
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China and technology: a conversation with Yong Zhao, cofounder of Junzi Kitchen. From
February 26, 2018.
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Matt Klinman on "how Facebook is killing comedy" From
February 19, 2018.
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Bob Mankoff and Jamie Brew, co-founders of Botnik. From
February 12, 2018.
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Christopher Potter, author of "Earth Gazers," on tech and our image of humanity. From
February 5, 2018.
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Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo. From
January 29, 2018.
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Parents of kids who use tech, feat. DJ Scott Williams. From
January 22, 2018.
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Jonathan Taplin, author of "Move Fast and Break Things," on Big Tech undermining democracy. From
January 15, 2018.
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Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, author, "Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture" From
January 8, 2018.
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Best practices for tech in 2018 - with Mark & station manager Ken. From
January 1, 2018.
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Steven Levy, tech journalist and author. From
December 18, 2017.
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Documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson on his new series, "This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory" From
December 11, 2017.
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Nir Eyal, author of "Hooked," on building habit-forming apps. From
December 4, 2017.
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Cheyenne Hohman, director of the Free Music Archive. From
November 20, 2017.
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Andy Rehfeldt changes songs to very different genres. Tech + musical genius! From
October 30, 2017.
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Reanimating old tech: Andrew Beccone, founder of the Reanimation Library. From
October 16, 2017.
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