In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turned the tech industry away from innovation - and how we might turn the tide against them.

CORY DOCTOROW:

https://pluralistic.net/

https://x.com/doctorow

BRIAN MERCHANT: 

Blood In The Machine Book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown

Newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/

https://x.com/bcmerchant

Ed's Socials:

https://www.twitter.com/edzitron

https://instagram.com/edzitron

https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social

https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

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Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline

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In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turned the tech industry away from innovation - and how we might turn the tide against them.
CORY DOCTOROW:
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/">https://pluralistic.net/</a>
<a href="https://x.com/doctorow">https://x.com/doctorow</a>
BRIAN MERCHANT: 
Blood In The Machine Book: <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown">https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown</a>
Newsletter:<a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/"> https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/</a>
<a href="https://x.com/bcmerchant">https://x.com/bcmerchant</a>
Ed's Socials:
<a href="https://www.twitter.com/edzitron">https://www.twitter.com/edzitron</a>
<a href="https://instagram.com/edzitron">https://instagram.com/edzitron</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social</a> 
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@edzitron">https://www.threads.net/@edzitron</a>
Newsletter: <a href="http://wheresyoured.at">wheresyoured.at</a>
Reddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">https://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a>
Discord: <a href="http://chat.wheresyoured.at">chat.wheresyoured.at</a>

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 

Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.



Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.
 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/1877c9a3-e6be-430b-8421-b1c3016630f4/transcript

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