Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by tech reporters Alex Cranz, Cherlynn Low and Victoria song to talk about the broken promises of generative AI, and how useless things get funded far more than useful ones.

Alex Cranz: 
https://bsky.app/profile/cranz.bsky.social

Cherlynn Low:
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/cherlynn-low/
https://x.com/cherlynnlow
https://bsky.app/profile/cherlynn.bsky.social

Victoria Song:
https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social 
https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song 

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Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by tech reporters Alex Cranz, Cherlynn Low and Victoria song to talk about the broken promises of generative AI, and how useless things get funded far more than useful ones.
Alex Cranz:&nbsp; <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/cranz.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/cranz.bsky.social</a>
Cherlynn Low: <a href="https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/cherlynn-low/">https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/cherlynn-low/</a> <a href="https://x.com/cherlynnlow">https://x.com/cherlynnlow</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/cherlynn.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/cherlynn.bsky.social</a>
Victoria Song: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/vicmsong.bsky.social&nbsp;</a> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song">https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song</a><a href="https://www.theverge.com/authors/victoria-song">&nbsp;</a>
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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.

Radio Better Offline: Cherlynn Low, Alex Cranz & Victoria Song

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/b6afbc07-1928-4b38-bc41-b2a40140cb71/transcript

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