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This week's episode of Tech won't save us features a guest who has not been back for a little while. Brian Merchant is a technology columnist at the LA Times and author of The One Device, The Secret History of the iPhone. This coming September, his second book, Blood in the Machine, The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech will also be published. And he'll certainly be back to talk about that. But this week we wanted to talk about a recent announcement from a major company that you will be very familiar with called Apple.

Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the vision of the future of computing offered by Apple’s Vision Pro headset and why it should be resisted.

Brian Merchant is the technology columnist at the LA Times. He’s also the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone and Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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Paris will be in Edmonton, Alberta on June 24. More info here.
Brian wrote a column about the Apple Vision Pro for the LA Times, and another about Uber drivers in California getting payouts.
Paris also wrote about why Apple Vision Pro should be ridiculed for Disconnect.
David Karpf called virtual reality the “rich white kid of technology.”
Meta employees are not working in the metaverse.
Mark Gurman reported on the internal division at Apple over whether to release the Vision Pro in its current form.

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