WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlists and Archives

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlists and Archives

Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. Tech, community, video games, and whatever else is next.

Also available as an MP3 podcast. More info at our Podcast Central page.

Upcoming events:

Mon. Dec 11th, 6pm - 7pm: Guillaume Pitron, author, "The Dark Cloud" (More info...)
Guillaume Pitron discusses his book "The Dark Cloud: The Hidden Costs of the Digital World," which quantifies the environmental impact of all the hardware, software, infrastructure, and energy it takes to maintain the internet. (Spoiler: it's not good.)

December 11, 2023: Guillaume Pitron, author, "The Dark Cloud" | See the playlist (Playlist still being updated)
December 4, 2023: What tech is hiding | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

November 27, 2023: Scott Williams guests hosts | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 20, 2023: Kris De Decker, founder, Low-Tech Magazine | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 13, 2023: Ed Park, author, "Same Bed Different Dreams" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 6, 2023: Tech villain update: Zuckerberg, Andreessen, Neumann, Bankman-Fried | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

October 30, 2023: Facial recognition w/Kashmir Hill, author, "Your Face Belongs to Us" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 23, 2023: Taser Drones in Elementary Schools | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 16, 2023: Brian Merchant, author, "Blood in the Machine" – about the Luddites | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 9, 2023: Antitrust lawsuits against Google and Amazon | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 2, 2023: JOB playwright Max Friedlich | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

September 25, 2023: Surveillance in the subway, the store, the stadium, and the sky | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 18, 2023: Michael Hearst discusses his new Mean Marcus album, "Say Hello To The Party" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 11, 2023: Disaster alerts: Jeannette Sutton, Ken Freedman and Mark discuss | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 4, 2023: Coco Krumme, author, "Optimal Illusions" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

August 28, 2023: Tamara Kneese, author of "Death Glitch" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
August 21, 2023: Updates on past shows | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
August 14, 2023: Boondoggle's Pat Garofalo on Amazon's data-center scam | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
August 7, 2023: Listener questions | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

July 31, 2023: Bruce Schneier, author, "A Hacker's Mind" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
July 24, 2023: Josh O'Kane, author of "Sideways," on Google's failure in Toronto | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
July 17, 2023: Station Manager Ken guest hosts The Happy Episode of Techtonic | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
July 10, 2023: Clear the Dance Floor w/ Colby Smith filled in. Find the show here.
July 3, 2023: Surveillance roundup | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

June 26, 2023: Paul Salopek on walking through "the handmade world" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
June 19, 2023: Ridiculing Apple's Vision Pro headset with Paris Marx | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
June 12, 2023: Internet addiction and the ITAA: Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
June 5, 2023: David Auerbach on Meganets, AI, national digital identity apps and Clever Hans, the equine faux mathlete | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

May 29, 2023: Harold Burris-Meyer and manipulative sound, feat. Ted Houghtaling | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 22, 2023: Cybersecurity and "how the world ends" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 15, 2023: Mark tries to convince Matt Warwick to say no to a brain chip | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 8, 2023: Nita Farahany, author, "The Battle for Your Brain" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 1, 2023: How working in the tech industry has changed, with WFMU's Dave Mandl | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

April 24, 2023: You're being watched by surveillance glasses, Tesla cars, and robot police dogs | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
April 17, 2023: Meredith Broussard, author, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
April 10, 2023: Station Manager Ken fills in and interviews Journalist Matt Taibbi | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
April 3, 2023: Roger guest-hosts: Gen Z Speaks (about social media) | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

March 27, 2023: Sandrine Rigaud, co-author, "Pegasus" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
March 20, 2023: Cory Doctorow, author, "Chokepoint Capitalism" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 13, 2023: Fundraising marathon show with co-host Bryce | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
March 6, 2023: Fundraising marathon show, w/cohost Trouble | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

February 27, 2023: Gaylord Fields discusses Spotify's AI DJ | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 20, 2023: Joe Turow, author, "Americans Can't Consent to Companies' Use of Their Data" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 13, 2023: Susan Linn, author, "Who's Raising the Kids?" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 6, 2023: Our AI-generated future: Mark Hurst on AI-extruded text and music | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

January 30, 2023: Torie Bosch, editor, “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 23, 2023: Sarah Lamdan, author, "Data Cartels" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 16, 2023: Craig Silverman and Google's ad business of "porn, piracy, and fraud" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 9, 2023: Surveillance roundup | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 2, 2023: Mark and Station Manager Ken discuss the year ahead | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

December 26, 2022: ARB Guest Hosts Today: Digital Intimacy | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
December 19, 2022: Darren Byler, co-translator of "The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
December 12, 2022: Rachel Ignotofsky, author, "The History of the Computer" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
December 5, 2022: On game design: Eric Zimmerman, author, "The Rules We Break" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

November 28, 2022: Why you shouldn't trust Apple | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 21, 2022: David Sax, author, "The Future is Analog" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 14, 2022: Lurking dangers of tech | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 7, 2022: Carissa Véliz, author, "Privacy is Power" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

October 31, 2022: Nightmares from Silicon Valley | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 24, 2022: Adrian Hon, author, "You've Been Played" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 17, 2022: Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 10, 2022: Station Manager Ken fills in for Mark and discusses recent robotics and AI news. Call in at 201-209-9368! | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 3, 2022: Douglas Rushkoff on his new book, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

September 26, 2022: Subways and surveillance - with Christopher Robbins from Hell Gate | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 19, 2022: Aaron Sachs, author, "Up from the Depths" – on Melville, Mumford, and difficult times | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 12, 2022: Five years of Techtonic | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 5, 2022: Workplace surveillance: a very Techtonic Labor Day | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

August 29, 2022: To Help Ensure Your Safety: The Sounds of Surveillance | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
August 22, 2022: Molly Osberg and New York's new Link5G surveillance towers | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
August 15, 2022: Touring the Torment Nexus | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
August 8, 2022: James Bridle, author, "Ways of Being" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
August 1, 2022: "What now?" How to resist Big Tech if Congress fails... | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

July 25, 2022: Paris Marx, author, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
July 18, 2022: Ben Tarnoff, author, "Internet for the People" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
July 11, 2022: Station Manager Ken guest hosts Techtonic tonight | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
July 4, 2022: The July 4th montage show | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

June 27, 2022: Jonathan Crary, author, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
June 20, 2022: Our last chance to defeat Big Tech (for awhile) | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
June 13, 2022: Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
June 6, 2022: Surveillance roundup | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

May 30, 2022: Jeff Deutsch, author, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 23, 2022: Buffalo and Big Tech | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 16, 2022: Perry Metzger interview (cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin), with guest host Dave Mandl | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 9, 2022: Carolyn Chen, author, "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
May 2, 2022: On Musk and Twitter – with Paul Bradley Carr | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

April 25, 2022: Paul Salopek is walking "Out of Eden" and around the world | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
April 18, 2022: Why you should be worried about data brokers | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
April 11, 2022: Sasha Stiles, poet and artist, on her book "Technelegy" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
April 4, 2022: Justin E. H. Smith, author, "The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

March 28, 2022: Ethan Gutmann on digital spycraft in human rights work in China | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
March 21, 2022: Damon Krukowski on the Bandcamp purchase | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
March 14, 2022: Fundraising marathon show w/cohost Matt Warwick | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
March 7, 2022: Fundraising marathon show, w/cohost Ken Freedman | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

February 28, 2022: Ukraine, NFTs, Wordle tracking, Starlink junk, IRS facerec... | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 21, 2022: Kelly Weill, author, "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 14, 2022: The time I met Jeff Bezos: reflecting on how success changed Amazon & Bezos | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
February 7, 2022: Alec MacGillis, author, "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

January 31, 2022: Tonight's Programme: Station Manager Ken and You Discuss the Neil Young vs Spotify Brouuhaha | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 24, 2022: Dave Holmes, creator, "Waiting for Impact" podcast | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 17, 2022: Darren Byler, author, "In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 10, 2022: Damon vs. DiCaprio and "Don't Look Up" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
January 3, 2022: Station Manager Ken joins for a game of "Who Said It" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

December 27, 2021: Mark Schatzker, author, "The End of Craving" | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
December 20, 2021: Maria, Meta, Musk: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, arrogance from Meta, and TIME's person of the year, Elon Musk | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
December 13, 2021: Gretchen Peters, exec director of ACCO, on crime and corruption online | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
December 6, 2021: Steve Elkins, director, "Echoes of the Invisible" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 29, 2021: Station Manager Ken Guest Hosts Techtonic Tonight | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 22, 2021: Activision, AirPods, Adams, and your calls | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 15, 2021: Paul Bradley Carr, author, 1414º | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 8, 2021: Tyson Yunkaporta, author, "Sand Talk" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 1, 2021: David Yoon, author, "Version Zero" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 25, 2021: "Red Heaven" directors Lauren DeFilippo & Katherine Gorringe | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 18, 2021: The return of call screener Phil | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 11, 2021: David Bodanis, author, "The Art of Fairness" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 4, 2021: What just happened to Facebook and Instagram? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 27, 2021: Joe Turow, author, "The Voice Catchers" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 20, 2021: Ten reasons to smash your smartphone | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 13, 2021: Decentralizing computers with Dave Ackley, founder of the T2 Tile Project | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 6, 2021: Matt Warwick on cryptocurrencies and dodgy smartphone apps | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 30, 2021: Tech Can Be Fun! Guest Host Amanda Nazario with WFMU guests Paul Bruno and Abbie from Mars. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 23, 2021: Shannon Mattern, author, "A City Is Not a Computer" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 16, 2021: The WeWork fiasco - with Eliot Brown, author, "The Cult of We" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 9, 2021: Vaccine apps - with Albert Fox Cahn | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 2, 2021: Sports and tech, and a few movie picks, with Mark's friend Paul | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 19, 2021: Jon Fasman, author, "We See It All" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 12, 2021: Annette LeMay Burke, photographer and author, "Fauxliage" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 5, 2021: Radio Row with guest host David Cooper fills in.

June 28, 2021: Craig Taylor, author, "New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 21, 2021: Cook, Khan, crypto, Christie's, corona complicity... and Pink Floyd. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 14, 2021: Cupertino, Cuban, crypto, Cadence, Cena, China, and calling cicadas | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 7, 2021: Amelia Pang, author, "Made in China," on forced labor creating American products | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 31, 2021: Dan Bodah filled in.
May 24, 2021: Listeners banning tech | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 17, 2021: Managing photos with Marci Brennan & Chris George from Past Present Pix | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 10, 2021: Pete Davis, author, "Dedicated" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 3, 2021: Frank Pasquale, author, "New Laws of Robotics" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 26, 2021: Dennis Glover, author, "Factory 19" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 19, 2021: Bob Ostertag, musician and author, "Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 12, 2021: The Problem with Head Transplants, with Dr. Brandy Schillace | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 5, 2021: Tim Harford, author, "The Data Detective" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 29, 2021: Disinformation and a stuck boat | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 22, 2021: Paul Kingsnorth, author, "Alexandria" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 15, 2021: Fundraising marathon show, w/cohost Ken Freedman | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 8, 2021: Fundraising marathon show, w/cohost Sheila B. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 1, 2021: Nabiha Syed, president, The Markup | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 22, 2021: Annie Jacobsen, author, "First Platoon" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 15, 2021: Andrea Pitzer, author, "Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 8, 2021: Station Manager Ken and Mark Discuss the WFMU Comments Community | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 1, 2021: Adrian Daub, author, "What Tech Calls Thinking" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 25, 2021: Jonathan Lethem, author, "The Arrest" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 18, 2021: Sarah Brayne, author, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 11, 2021: Big Tech and insurrection - discussing with station manager Ken Freedman | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 4, 2021: The past and future of the office with Sheila Liming, author of "Office" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 28, 2020: Best of 2020: tech books and video games | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 21, 2020: Station Manager Ken with Poet and Author Elisa Gabbert on Doomscrolling, Contagious Conversion Disorder and More | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 14, 2020: J. Khadijah Abdurahman on Timnit Gebru's firing and "the moral collapse" of AI ethics | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 7, 2020: Tron Life and the surveillance gift guide | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 30, 2020: Adrian Hon, author, "A New History of the Future in 100 Objects" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 23, 2020: Gizmodo's Shoshana Wodinsky on Spotify | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 16, 2020: Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, "Voices from the Valley" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 9, 2020: The election and Big Tech | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 2, 2020: William Deresiewicz, author, "The Death of the Artist" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 26, 2020: Station Manager Ken Fills in: Interview with Author & Journalist Matt Taibbi | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 19, 2020: Is it safe to use the new Covid Alert app? with Daniel Kahn Gillmor, aka dkg | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 12, 2020: The video game audio challenge, with DJ Paradox | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 5, 2020: Alan Jacobs, author, "Breaking Bread with the Dead" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 28, 2020: Ken Freedman fills in | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 21, 2020: Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2020: Steve Lambert, artist and activist | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 7, 2020: Cory Doctorow, author, "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 31, 2020: Ben Hunt, from Epsilon Theory, on corruption in finance & tech | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 24, 2020: Katie Mack, author, "The End of Everything" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 17, 2020: Elaine Kasket, author, "All the Ghosts in the Machine" - on the afterlife of data | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 10, 2020: Joel Kotkin, author, "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 3, 2020: The Big Tech hearings - and Lisa Macpherson from Public Knowledge | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 27, 2020: Discussing free speech with Scott Johnston, author, "Campusland" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 20, 2020: Ed Park, author of "Personal Days," on reading during a pandemic | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 13, 2020: Zoom in schools w/DJ Paradox, surveillance & police, and deepfakes | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 6, 2020: Ben Green, author, "The Smart Enough City" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2020: Mark Zuckerberg finally blinks | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 22, 2020: Voices in tech 4: Apple, eBay, facial rec, and Joe on Zuck | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 15, 2020: Jason Fried, cofounder of Basecamp, on launching Hey.com, a new email service | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 8, 2020: Chris Gilliard on Big Tech companies exploiting the very community they claim to support. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 1, 2020: Ryan Walsh, discussing the OpenAI Jukebox | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 25, 2020: Steven Levy, author, "Facebook: The Inside Story" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 11, 2020: Jathan Sadowski, author, "Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 4, 2020: Movies covering pandemics, dystopias, AI, and tech gadgets - chosen by Mark's friend Paul in Atlanta | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 27, 2020: Contact tracing, pros and cons - with Daniel Kahn Gillmor, ACLU senior staff technologist | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 20, 2020: Toby Ord, author, "The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 13, 2020: David Sax, author, "The Soul of an Entrepreneur" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 6, 2020: Chris Gilliard on surveillance during corona | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 30, 2020: Kyle Chayka, author, "The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 23, 2020: Albert Fox Cahn and Liz O'Sullivan from Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 16, 2020: Special reporter Dan Casey on recent tech news | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 9, 2020: Station manager Ken Freedman cohosts for marathon 2020 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 2, 2020: Mary Wing cohosts for marathon 2020 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 24, 2020: Rana Foroohar, author, "Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All Of Us" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 17, 2020: Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, founder, Pivot for Humanity | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 10, 2020: Voices in tech 3: facial recognition, anti-competitive Big Tech giants, & a robot | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 3, 2020: David Courtwright, author, "The Age of Addiction" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 27, 2020: Melanie Mitchell, author, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 20, 2020: Jonathan Fischer, Slate's tech editor, on "The Evil List" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 13, 2020: Aaron Roth, co-author, "The Ethical Algorithm" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 6, 2020: Station Manager Ken Freedman on tech trends in 2020 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 30, 2019: Dvorak keyboard and other tech tips, plus DJ Paradox | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 23, 2019: Scott Williams filled in.
December 16, 2019: Matt Klinman and Sam West, creators of "Smartr" podcast series | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 9, 2019: Doug Hill, author, "Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 2, 2019: Joe Hollier, co-founder, The Light Phone | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 25, 2019: Voices in tech: Sacha Baron Cohen, Aral Balkan, and Dr. Chris Gilliard | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 18, 2019: Whistleblowers in tech - w/Jack Poulson, Irene Knapp, Liz O'Sullivan, and Delphine Halgand | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 11, 2019: Tim Maughan, author, "Infinite Detail" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 4, 2019: NYC Mesh, a community-owned network: Scott Rasmussen and Jillian Murphy | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 28, 2019: Bron Gondwana, CEO of Fastmail | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 21, 2019: Station Manager Ken Freedman: human-on-robot violence | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 14, 2019: Astra Taylor, author, "Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss it When It’s Gone" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 7, 2019: David Dichelle, live from Leipzig, Germany (and host of Continental Subway on Give the Drummer Radio) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 30, 2019: Problems with Juul (and scooters and Tik Tok) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 23, 2019: Luther Lowe, from Yelp, on Google anti-trust | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 16, 2019: Sarah T. Roberts, author of "Behind the Screen," on content moderators | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2019: Arthur Holland Michel, author, "Eyes in the Sky" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 2, 2019: Carl Miller, author, "The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 26, 2019: Jeremiah Moss, author, "Vanishing New York" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 19, 2019: Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann on their new book "Super Thinking" (and Duck Duck Go) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 12, 2019: Amy Webb, author of "The Big Nine," talks about AI and our future | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 5, 2019: The tech-tips episode | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 29, 2019: Juliette Kayyem on terrorism; Neuralink's mind-reading device; and Libra | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 22, 2019: Showdown between Big Tech & democracy - who will win? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 15, 2019: Matt Stroud, author, "Thin Blue Lie" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 8, 2019: Dr. Chris Gilliard on surveillance and its effects on marginalized communities | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 1, 2019: Archive show: Shoshana Zuboff, author, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 24, 2019: Scott Urban, "privacy eyewear" designer | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 17, 2019: Damon Krukowski, podcaster and author, "Ways of Hearing" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 10, 2019: Jenny Odell, author, "How to Do Nothing" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 3, 2019: Joseph Menn, author, "Cult of the Dead Cow" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 27, 2019: Justin E. H. Smith, author, "Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 20, 2019: Daniel J. Clark, director of "Behind the Curve," on Flat Earthers | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 13, 2019: Shoshana Zuboff, author, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 6, 2019: Roger McNamee, author, "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 29, 2019: Emerging voices diagnosing the risks of tech today | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 22, 2019: Paul Mozur, New York Times journalist, on surveillance in China | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 15, 2019: Clive Thompson, author, "Coders" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 8, 2019: Rancho Thatchmo with Thatcher Keats filled in.
April 1, 2019: Sam Schwartz, aka "Gridlock Sam," on autonomous vehicles and "No One at the Wheel" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 25, 2019: Kevin Dugan, New York Post reporter, on Earnin app | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 18, 2019: Nis Frome on losing weight in the digital age | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 11, 2019: "Staysh" Ken Freedman cohosts for marathon 2019 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 5, 2019: A message about WFMU's fundraising marathon 2019 | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
March 4, 2019: Pseu Braun cohosts for marathon 2019 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 25, 2019: Tim Harford, author and economist, on kicking his smartphone addiction (plus, a cameo by Catherine Price!) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 18, 2019: Maxim Pozdorovkin, director, "The Truth About Killer Robots" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 11, 2019: Matt Novak, editor of Paleofuture, on past visions of the future | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 4, 2019: Prof. Susan Crawford, author, "Fiber" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 28, 2019: Douglas Rushkoff, author, "Team Human" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 21, 2019: Prof. Safiya Noble, author, "Algorithms of Oppression" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 14, 2019: David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker) on music in the digital age | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 7, 2019: Station Manager Ken Freedman on tech in 2019 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 31, 2018: Matt Haughey on getting scammed, and the Internet in 2018 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 24, 2018: Special holiday 2018 episode | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 17, 2018: Dava Whisenant, director, "Bathtubs Over Broadway" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 10, 2018: Rex Sorgatz, author, "The Encyclopedia of Misinformation" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 3, 2018: Letting go of the iPhone: Mark's friend Brian tells his story | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 26, 2018: Jonathan Tepper, author, "The Myth of Capitalism" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 19, 2018: Frank Pasquale, author of "The Black Box Society," on secret algorithms | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 12, 2018: M.T. Anderson predicted the future in his novel "Feed" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 5, 2018: Ava Kofman, from The Intercept, on LinkNYC kiosks | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 29, 2018: WFMU's Jesse Jarnow on his book "Heads" and the early Internet's psychedelic history | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 22, 2018: Yasha Levine, author, "Surveillance Valley" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 15, 2018: Station Manager Ken Freedman on algorithms - and a new Scam Roundup | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 8, 2018: AI-inspired music with Jamie Brew, Botnik cofounder | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 1, 2018: Douglas Durst and the National Debt Clock | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 24, 2018: M.A. Taylor, director, "The Creepy Line" - and Dr. Robert Epstein | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 17, 2018: What happened when Jessamyn West sued Equifax | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 10, 2018: Episode 50: Recap of the first year! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 3, 2018: Ali Latifi, journalist in Afghanistan | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2018: Dan Bodah filled in with a special 2-hour Vocal Fry.
August 20, 2018: In Real Life with Kimzilla and Emily filled in.
August 13, 2018: James Bridle, author of "New Dark Age" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 6, 2018: Matt Warwick, host of Garbage Time on WFMU, reveals his favorite apps | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 30, 2018: Dr. Robert Epstein: watching Google manipulate the world | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 23, 2018: Paul Ford, from Ftrain and Postlight, live in-studio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 16, 2018: Jaron Lanier, author, "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 9, 2018: Less texting, more hugging: Mobile Steam Unit sings songs about tech. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 2, 2018: Rancho Thatchmo filled in.

June 25, 2018: Siva Vaidhyanathan, author "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 18, 2018: John Keating, director, "Gamechangers: Dreams of Blizzcon" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 11, 2018: Brett Frischmann, co-author, "Re-Engineering Humanity" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 4, 2018: Andrew Keen, author, "How to Fix the Future" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 28, 2018: Meredith Broussard, author, "Artificial Unintelligence" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 21, 2018: Felix Salmon, financial journalist, live in-studio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 14, 2018: David Sax, author, "The Revenge of Analog" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 7, 2018: Anya Kamenetz, author, "The Art of Screen Time" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 30, 2018: Corey Pein on his new book, "Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 23, 2018: Columbia Business School prof. Len Sherman on business models online | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 16, 2018: Catherine Price, author, "How to Break Up With Your Phone" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 9, 2018: Henry Lowengard, aka Webhamster Henry, on tech at WFMU and beyond | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 2, 2018: Dylan Curran on Google's surveillance - and, of course, Facebook | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 26, 2018: Explaining cryptocurrency w/Alex George, Popular Mechanics - and Mark on #deletefacebook | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 19, 2018: Mathew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review's chief digital writer, on the Facebook Armageddon | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 12, 2018: Kimzilla from In Real Life co-hosts the second Techtonic marathon show | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 5, 2018: Irwin Chusid cohosts the first Techtonic marathon show | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 26, 2018: China and technology: a conversation with Yong Zhao, cofounder of Junzi Kitchen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 19, 2018: Matt Klinman on "how Facebook is killing comedy" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 12, 2018: Bob Mankoff and Jamie Brew, co-founders of Botnik | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 5, 2018: Christopher Potter, author of "Earth Gazers," on tech and our image of humanity | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 29, 2018: Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2018: Parents of kids who use tech, feat. DJ Scott Williams | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 15, 2018: Jonathan Taplin, author of "Move Fast and Break Things," on Big Tech undermining democracy | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 8, 2018: Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, author, "Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 1, 2018: Best practices for tech in 2018 - with Mark & station manager Ken | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 25, 2017: Special holiday episode of Techtonic | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 18, 2017: Steven Levy, tech journalist and author | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 11, 2017: Documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson on his new series, "This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2017: Nir Eyal, author of "Hooked," on building habit-forming apps | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 27, 2017: Tech on campus, feat. a Real Live College Student. Also, Net Neutrality news | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 20, 2017: Cheyenne Hohman, director of the Free Music Archive | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 13, 2017: Should We Cheer Big Tech For "Helping" In Puerto Rico? feat. Prof. Zaire Dinzey-Flores | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 6, 2017: Janelle Shane taught an AI to name a craft beer | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 30, 2017: Andy Rehfeldt changes songs to very different genres. Tech + musical genius! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 23, 2017: Phone-robots will fight telemarketers for you - feat. Roger Anderson, founder of Jolly Roger Telephone Co. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 16, 2017: Reanimating old tech: Andrew Beccone, founder of the Reanimation Library | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 9, 2017: Why you should play games, feat. game designer & author Eric Zimmerman | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2017: What is tech for? feat. novelist Courtney Maum, "Touch" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 25, 2017: Jessamyn West sues Equifax; the Copenhagen Letter challenges techies to do better | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 18, 2017: Vicki Boykis: Facebook Loves Your Data | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2017: Scott Heiferman: Alexa Doesn't Love You | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

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