What's Your Thought on the Future of the Tech Industry?

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I feel like how we think about the future or our ideas of the horizons that we could achieve were maybe in the past to a certain degree driven more by governments, by politics. But especially in the past couple of decades, I feel like these people from Silicon Valley have been very successful in taking over that space and colonizing the mind of the public. Why do you think they were so successful at that? That's a long way of asking a short question. Because you look at these men and you're like, really you? Like, I don't, you know, like I have questions. There's many things about them and like, nor am I, but I'm also

Paris Marx is joined by Rose Eveleth to discuss the end of her long-running podcast, why thinking about the future is important, and how tech billionaires try to shape our idea of the future to serve their ends.

Rose Eveleth is the creator and host of the Flash Forward podcast and the author of Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows. You can follow them on Twitter at @roseveleth.

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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