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This page last updated November 14, 2024

Christopher Brown, author, "A Natural History of Empty Lots" From October 21, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Yaroslav Trofimov, author, "Our Enemies Will Vanish" From October 14, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Silkie Carlo, director, Big Brother Watch. From October 7, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Tim Schwab, author, "The Bill Gates Problem" From September 30, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Helen Phillips, author, "HUM" From September 16, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Carl Öhman, author, "The Afterlife of Data" From September 2, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Guest host Alan on Rancho Mastatal. From August 26, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Paula Bialski, author, "Middle Tech" From August 19, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use. From August 5, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Guest host Brian D. on disinformation with Kirsten Eddy and Alex Mahadevan. From July 22, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Generative AI and the "cesspool internet" – with Jason Koebler. From July 15, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Carissa Véliz on digital ethics. From July 1, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Byron Tau, author, "Means of Control" From June 24, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Mark Schatzker and "Food, Inc. 2" From June 10, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for. From May 13, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

"Data Grab" by Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry. From May 6, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Michael Shelley on AI-generated music. From April 29, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Eve Herold, author, "Robots and the People Who Love Them" From April 22, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Richard Polt, author, "The Typewriter Revolution" From April 15, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Guest host Lily Wen interviews Liz Pelly. From March 25, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ian Johnson, author of "Sparks," on China's underground historians. From March 18, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Scott Shapiro, author, "Fancy Bear Goes Phishing" From February 19, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Astronomer Sam Lawler on the danger of Starlink satellites. From February 12, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ashley Shew, author, "Against Technoableism" From January 22, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ben Grosser, artist and creator of Minus, a better social network. From January 15, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jason Koebler, from 404 Media, on cameras from a banned Chinese company. From January 8, 2024. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Guillaume Pitron, author, "The Dark Cloud" From December 11, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Kris De Decker, founder, Low-Tech Magazine. From November 20, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ed Park, author, "Same Bed Different Dreams" From November 13, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Facial recognition w/Kashmir Hill, author, "Your Face Belongs to Us" From October 30, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Brian Merchant, author, "Blood in the Machine" – about the Luddites. From October 16, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

JOB playwright Max Friedlich. From October 2, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Michael Hearst discusses his new Mean Marcus album, "Say Hello To The Party" From September 18, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Disaster alerts: Jeannette Sutton, Ken Freedman and Mark discuss. From September 11, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Coco Krumme, author, "Optimal Illusions" From September 4, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Tamara Kneese, author of "Death Glitch" From August 28, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Boondoggle's Pat Garofalo on Amazon's data-center scam. From August 14, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Bruce Schneier, author, "A Hacker's Mind" From July 31, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Josh O'Kane, author of "Sideways," on Google's failure in Toronto. From July 24, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Paul Salopek on walking through "the handmade world" From June 26, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ridiculing Apple's Vision Pro headset with Paris Marx. From June 19, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Auerbach on Meganets, AI, national digital identity apps and Clever Hans, the equine faux mathlete. From June 5, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Harold Burris-Meyer and manipulative sound, feat. Ted Houghtaling. From May 29, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Mark tries to convince Matt Warwick to say no to a brain chip. From May 15, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Nita Farahany, author, "The Battle for Your Brain" From May 8, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

How working in the tech industry has changed, with WFMU's Dave Mandl. From May 1, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Meredith Broussard, author, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" From April 17, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Sandrine Rigaud, co-author, "Pegasus" From March 27, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Cory Doctorow, author, "Chokepoint Capitalism" From March 20, 2023. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Gaylord Fields discusses Spotify's AI DJ. From February 27, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Joe Turow, author, "Americans Can't Consent to Companies' Use of Their Data" From February 20, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Susan Linn, author, "Who's Raising the Kids?" From February 13, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Torie Bosch, editor, “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”. From January 30, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Sarah Lamdan, author, "Data Cartels" From January 23, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Craig Silverman and Google's ad business of "porn, piracy, and fraud" From January 16, 2023. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Darren Byler, co-translator of "The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang" From December 19, 2022. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Rachel Ignotofsky, author, "The History of the Computer" From December 12, 2022. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

On game design: Eric Zimmerman, author, "The Rules We Break" From December 5, 2022. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Sax, author, "The Future is Analog" From November 21, 2022. Listen to the whole show: MP3 - 128K or  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Carissa Véliz, author, "Privacy is Power" From November 7, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Adrian Hon, author, "You've Been Played" From October 24, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. From October 17, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Douglas Rushkoff on his new book, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires" From October 3, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Subways and surveillance - with Christopher Robbins from Hell Gate. From September 26, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Aaron Sachs, author, "Up from the Depths" – on Melville, Mumford, and difficult times. From September 19, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Molly Osberg and New York's new Link5G surveillance towers. From August 22, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

James Bridle, author, "Ways of Being" From August 8, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Paris Marx, author, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" From July 25, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ben Tarnoff, author, "Internet for the People" From July 18, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jonathan Crary, author, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" From June 27, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House" From June 13, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jeff Deutsch, author, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" From May 30, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Perry Metzger interview (cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin), with guest host Dave Mandl. From May 16, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Carolyn Chen, author, "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley" From May 9, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

On Musk and Twitter – with Paul Bradley Carr. From May 2, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Paul Salopek is walking "Out of Eden" and around the world. From April 25, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Why you should be worried about data brokers. From April 18, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Sasha Stiles, poet and artist, on her book "Technelegy" From April 11, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Justin E. H. Smith, author, "The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is" From April 4, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ethan Gutmann on digital spycraft in human rights work in China. From March 28, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Damon Krukowski on the Bandcamp purchase. From March 21, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Kelly Weill, author, "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything" From February 21, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Alec MacGillis, author, "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" From February 7, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Tonight's Programme: Station Manager Ken and You Discuss the Neil Young vs Spotify Brouuhaha. From January 31, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Dave Holmes, creator, "Waiting for Impact" podcast. From January 24, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Darren Byler, author, "In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony" From January 17, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken joins for a game of "Who Said It" From January 3, 2022. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Mark Schatzker, author, "The End of Craving" From December 27, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Gretchen Peters, exec director of ACCO, on crime and corruption online. From December 13, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Steve Elkins, director, "Echoes of the Invisible" From December 6, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken Guest Hosts Techtonic Tonight. From November 29, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Paul Bradley Carr, author, 1414º. From November 15, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Tyson Yunkaporta, author, "Sand Talk" From November 8, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Yoon, author, "Version Zero" From November 1, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

"Red Heaven" directors Lauren DeFilippo & Katherine Gorringe. From October 25, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Bodanis, author, "The Art of Fairness" From October 11, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Joe Turow, author, "The Voice Catchers" From September 27, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Decentralizing computers with Dave Ackley, founder of the T2 Tile Project. From September 13, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Matt Warwick on cryptocurrencies and dodgy smartphone apps. From September 6, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Shannon Mattern, author, "A City Is Not a Computer" From August 23, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

The WeWork fiasco - with Eliot Brown, author, "The Cult of We" From August 16, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Vaccine apps - with Albert Fox Cahn. From August 9, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Sports and tech, and a few movie picks, with Mark's friend Paul. From August 2, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jon Fasman, author, "We See It All" From July 19, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Annette LeMay Burke, photographer and author, "Fauxliage" From July 12, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Craig Taylor, author, "New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time" From June 28, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Cook, Khan, crypto, Christie's, corona complicity... and Pink Floyd. From June 21, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Amelia Pang, author, "Made in China," on forced labor creating American products. From June 7, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Managing photos with Marci Brennan & Chris George from Past Present Pix. From May 17, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Pete Davis, author, "Dedicated" From May 10, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Dennis Glover, author, "Factory 19" From April 26, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Bob Ostertag, musician and author, "Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat" From April 19, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

The Problem with Head Transplants, with Dr. Brandy Schillace. From April 12, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Tim Harford, author, "The Data Detective" From April 5, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Paul Kingsnorth, author, "Alexandria" From March 22, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Nabiha Syed, president, The Markup. From March 1, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Annie Jacobsen, author, "First Platoon" From February 22, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Andrea Pitzer, author, "Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World" From February 15, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken and Mark Discuss the WFMU Comments Community. From February 8, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Adrian Daub, author, "What Tech Calls Thinking" From February 1, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jonathan Lethem, author, "The Arrest" From January 25, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Sarah Brayne, author, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing." From January 18, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Big Tech and insurrection - discussing with station manager Ken Freedman. From January 11, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

The past and future of the office with Sheila Liming, author of "Office" From January 4, 2021. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken with Poet and Author Elisa Gabbert on Doomscrolling, Contagious Conversion Disorder and More. From December 21, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

J. Khadijah Abdurahman on Timnit Gebru's firing and "the moral collapse" of AI ethics. From December 14, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Adrian Hon, author, "A New History of the Future in 100 Objects" From November 30, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Gizmodo's Shoshana Wodinsky on Spotify. From November 23, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, "Voices from the Valley" From November 16, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

William Deresiewicz, author, "The Death of the Artist" From November 2, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken Fills in: Interview with Author & Journalist Matt Taibbi. From October 26, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Is it safe to use the new Covid Alert app? with Daniel Kahn Gillmor, aka dkg. From October 19, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

The video game audio challenge, with DJ Paradox. From October 12, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Alan Jacobs, author, "Breaking Bread with the Dead" From October 5, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ken Freedman fills in. From September 28, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes. From September 21, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Steve Lambert, artist and activist. From September 14, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Cory Doctorow, author, "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" From September 7, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ben Hunt, from Epsilon Theory, on corruption in finance & tech. From August 31, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Katie Mack, author, "The End of Everything" From August 24, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Elaine Kasket, author, "All the Ghosts in the Machine" - on the afterlife of data. From August 17, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Joel Kotkin, author, "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism" From August 10, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

The Big Tech hearings - and Lisa Macpherson from Public Knowledge. From August 3, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Discussing free speech with Scott Johnston, author, "Campusland" From July 27, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ed Park, author of "Personal Days," on reading during a pandemic. From July 20, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ben Green, author, "The Smart Enough City" From July 6, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jason Fried, cofounder of Basecamp, on launching Hey.com, a new email service. From June 15, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Chris Gilliard on Big Tech companies exploiting the very community they claim to support. From June 8, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ryan Walsh, discussing the OpenAI Jukebox. From June 1, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Steven Levy, author, "Facebook: The Inside Story" From May 25, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jathan Sadowski, author, "Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World" From May 11, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Movies covering pandemics, dystopias, AI, and tech gadgets - chosen by Mark's friend Paul in Atlanta. From May 4, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Contact tracing, pros and cons - with Daniel Kahn Gillmor, ACLU senior staff technologist. From April 27, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Toby Ord, author, "The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity" From April 20, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Sax, author, "The Soul of an Entrepreneur" From April 13, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Chris Gilliard on surveillance during corona. From April 6, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Kyle Chayka, author, "The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism" From March 30, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Albert Fox Cahn and Liz O'Sullivan from Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. From March 23, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Special reporter Dan Casey on recent tech news. From March 16, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Rana Foroohar, author, "Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All Of Us" From February 24, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, founder, Pivot for Humanity. From February 17, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Courtwright, author, "The Age of Addiction" From February 3, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Melanie Mitchell, author, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" From January 27, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jonathan Fischer, Slate's tech editor, on "The Evil List" From January 20, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Aaron Roth, co-author, "The Ethical Algorithm" From January 13, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken Freedman on tech trends in 2020. From January 6, 2020. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Matt Klinman and Sam West, creators of "Smartr" podcast series. From December 16, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Doug Hill, author, "Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology" From December 9, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Joe Hollier, co-founder, The Light Phone. From December 2, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Voices in tech: Sacha Baron Cohen, Aral Balkan, and Dr. Chris Gilliard. From November 25, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Whistleblowers in tech - w/Jack Poulson, Irene Knapp, Liz O'Sullivan, and Delphine Halgand. From November 18, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Tim Maughan, author, "Infinite Detail" From November 11, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

NYC Mesh, a community-owned network: Scott Rasmussen and Jillian Murphy. From November 4, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Bron Gondwana, CEO of Fastmail. From October 28, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken Freedman: human-on-robot violence. From October 21, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Astra Taylor, author, "Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss it When It’s Gone" From October 14, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Dichelle, live from Leipzig, Germany (and host of Continental Subway on Give the Drummer Radio) From October 7, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Luther Lowe, from Yelp, on Google anti-trust. From September 23, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Sarah T. Roberts, author of "Behind the Screen," on content moderators. From September 16, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Arthur Holland Michel, author, "Eyes in the Sky" From September 9, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Carl Miller, author, "The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab" From September 2, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jeremiah Moss, author, "Vanishing New York" From August 26, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann on their new book "Super Thinking" (and Duck Duck Go) From August 19, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Amy Webb, author of "The Big Nine," talks about AI and our future. From August 12, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Juliette Kayyem on terrorism; Neuralink's mind-reading device; and Libra. From July 29, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Matt Stroud, author, "Thin Blue Lie" From July 15, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Archive show: Shoshana Zuboff, author, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" From July 1, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Scott Urban, "privacy eyewear" designer. From June 24, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Damon Krukowski, podcaster and author, "Ways of Hearing" From June 17, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jenny Odell, author, "How to Do Nothing" From June 10, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Joseph Menn, author, "Cult of the Dead Cow" From June 3, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Justin E. H. Smith, author, "Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason" From May 27, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Daniel J. Clark, director of "Behind the Curve," on Flat Earthers. From May 20, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Shoshana Zuboff, author, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" From May 13, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Roger McNamee, author, "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe" From May 6, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Clive Thompson, author, "Coders" From April 15, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Kevin Dugan, New York Post reporter, on Earnin app. From March 25, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Nis Frome on losing weight in the digital age. From March 18, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Tim Harford, author and economist, on kicking his smartphone addiction (plus, a cameo by Catherine Price!) From February 25, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Maxim Pozdorovkin, director, "The Truth About Killer Robots" From February 18, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Matt Novak, editor of Paleofuture, on past visions of the future. From February 11, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Prof. Susan Crawford, author, "Fiber" From February 4, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Douglas Rushkoff, author, "Team Human" From January 28, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Prof. Safiya Noble, author, "Algorithms of Oppression" From January 21, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker) on music in the digital age. From January 14, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken Freedman on tech in 2019. From January 7, 2019. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Matt Haughey on getting scammed, and the Internet in 2018. From December 31, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Dava Whisenant, director, "Bathtubs Over Broadway" From December 17, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Rex Sorgatz, author, "The Encyclopedia of Misinformation" From December 10, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Letting go of the iPhone: Mark's friend Brian tells his story. From December 3, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jonathan Tepper, author, "The Myth of Capitalism" From November 26, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Frank Pasquale, author of "The Black Box Society," on secret algorithms. From November 19, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

M.T. Anderson predicted the future in his novel "Feed" From November 12, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ava Kofman, from The Intercept, on LinkNYC kiosks. From November 5, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

WFMU's Jesse Jarnow on his book "Heads" and the early Internet's psychedelic history. From October 29, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Yasha Levine, author, "Surveillance Valley" From October 22, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Station Manager Ken Freedman on algorithms - and a new Scam Roundup. From October 15, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

AI-inspired music with Jamie Brew, Botnik cofounder. From October 8, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Douglas Durst and the National Debt Clock. From October 1, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

M.A. Taylor, director, "The Creepy Line" - and Dr. Robert Epstein. From September 24, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

What happened when Jessamyn West sued Equifax. From September 17, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Ali Latifi, journalist in Afghanistan. From September 3, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

James Bridle, author of "New Dark Age" From August 13, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Matt Warwick, host of Garbage Time on WFMU, reveals his favorite apps. From August 6, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Dr. Robert Epstein: watching Google manipulate the world. From July 30, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Paul Ford, from Ftrain and Postlight, live in-studio. From July 23, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jaron Lanier, author, "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" From July 16, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Less texting, more hugging: Mobile Steam Unit sings songs about tech. From July 9, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, author "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy" From June 25, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

John Keating, director, "Gamechangers: Dreams of Blizzcon" From June 18, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Brett Frischmann, co-author, "Re-Engineering Humanity" From June 11, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Andrew Keen, author, "How to Fix the Future" From June 4, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Meredith Broussard, author, "Artificial Unintelligence" From May 28, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Felix Salmon, financial journalist, live in-studio. From May 21, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

David Sax, author, "The Revenge of Analog" From May 14, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Anya Kamenetz, author, "The Art of Screen Time" From May 7, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Corey Pein on his new book, "Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley" From April 30, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Columbia Business School prof. Len Sherman on business models online. From April 23, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Catherine Price, author, "How to Break Up With Your Phone" From April 16, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Henry Lowengard, aka Webhamster Henry, on tech at WFMU and beyond. From April 9, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Dylan Curran on Google's surveillance - and, of course, Facebook. From April 2, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Explaining cryptocurrency w/Alex George, Popular Mechanics - and Mark on #deletefacebook. From March 26, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Mathew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review's chief digital writer, on the Facebook Armageddon. From March 19, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

China and technology: a conversation with Yong Zhao, cofounder of Junzi Kitchen. From February 26, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Matt Klinman on "how Facebook is killing comedy" From February 19, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Bob Mankoff and Jamie Brew, co-founders of Botnik. From February 12, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Christopher Potter, author of "Earth Gazers," on tech and our image of humanity. From February 5, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo. From January 29, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Parents of kids who use tech, feat. DJ Scott Williams. From January 22, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jonathan Taplin, author of "Move Fast and Break Things," on Big Tech undermining democracy. From January 15, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, author, "Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture" From January 8, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Best practices for tech in 2018 - with Mark & station manager Ken. From January 1, 2018. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Steven Levy, tech journalist and author. From December 18, 2017. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson on his new series, "This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory" From December 11, 2017. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Nir Eyal, author of "Hooked," on building habit-forming apps. From December 4, 2017. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Cheyenne Hohman, director of the Free Music Archive. From November 20, 2017. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Andy Rehfeldt changes songs to very different genres. Tech + musical genius! From October 30, 2017. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Reanimating old tech: Andrew Beccone, founder of the Reanimation Library. From October 16, 2017. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.