i think we can make some fair claims that the tech lash and the souring te mogels is a little bit overstated. So since facebook changed their name to meta, and, you know, microsof came out and said oudo enlisted their devotion to the metaverse as well. And when i say they, i mean kind of tack titans, a have the ability to almost speak something into existence, in a way. But what i mean is not that it'll ever exist, in some cases, but that just by the fact that they've said it, media often s like they have to cover it as if it exists,. or even that it makes sense.
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss the ethics of tech media recommending surveillance devices, aspects of “smart” technologies you might not have considered, and why we should think twice about surrounding ourselves with cameras and microphones.
Chris Gilliard is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center. Follow Chris on Twitter at @hypervisible.
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