Is Hope Necessary?

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In one of your final episodes, you talk about hope. I feel like hope is something that is really tied up in any discussion about the future. There's a lot of talk today about hopelessness and leaving people feeling like things can't get better or won't get better in their lifetimes. As you were saying, why think about the future when things are so bad in the present? And I wonder how your exploration of hope and of these futures has affected how you think about that question.

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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