Journalist Kashmir Hill, Taiwan's minister of digital affairs Audrey Tang, and former White House Chief Information Officer Theresa Payton discuss how to build a better future for the internet. Topics include envisioning an inclusive online world, sustainability, repair shops, and upcoming podcast guests.
Recognize the Internet's role in society and create a more equitable distribution of economic power.
Focus on collaborative learning, prioritize human experience, and embrace diversity for a better Internet and world.
Deep dives
A Better Internet: Economic Power and Distribution
In this podcast episode, the hosts discuss the importance of recognizing the Internet as an integral part of society. They emphasize the need to create a better Internet by ensuring that economic power is more evenly distributed and that the benefits of the Internet are shared more widely. This could lead to a world where people have more sustainable purchasing power, with the ability to buy things that can be fixed or repaired, giving rise to the revival of repair shops in local communities.
Guests and Perspectives: Making the Internet Better
The podcast features conversations with various experts and thought leaders who are focused on making the Internet and the world a better place. Guests include filmmaker Alex Winter, artist Natrice Gaskins, former White House advisor Tim Wu, and Taiwanese hacker and Minister of Digital Affairs, Audrey Tang. The discussions revolve around collaborative learning, prioritizing human experience over user experience, and embracing diversity rather than focusing solely on technological singularity. The hosts invite listeners to follow the podcast for more insightful episodes.
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Creating a Better Internet and envisioning an inclusive world
We cannot build a better future unless we can envision it. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet returns with another season full of inspiring conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people around who are thinking about how to make the internet – and the world – a better place for all of us. Co-hosts Executive Director Cindy Cohn and Activism Director Jason Kelley will speak with people like journalist Kashmir Hill, Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs Audrey Tang, former White House advisor Tim Wu, digital artist Dr. Nettrice Gaskins and actor and filmmaker Alex Winter, among others.
It seems like everywhere we turn we see dystopian stories about technology’s impact on our lives and our futures — from tracking-based surveillance capitalism to street level government surveillance to the dominance of a few large platforms choking innovation to the growing pressure by authoritarian governments to control what we see and say — the landscape can feel bleak. Exposing and articulating these problems is important, but so is envisioning and then building a better future. That’s where our podcast comes in.
EFF's How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, we explore creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges.
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