The Future of Information Technology

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A lot of what people wrote about information technology, when the internet was either just too new for people to even realize it was there or wasn't around yet. Some of their forecasts were right on target, some of them were way off target but that's the way it is with any sort of futuristic prophecy. You don't know which thing that looked like a dead end is suddenly going to pop up and turn out to be important after all.

In this episode, we chat with Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America.

IN AMERICA. He is an editor at Reason magazine, and he lives in Baltimore.

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Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer Ryan Reeves

“In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out agnostic.” -RAW