The Making of Musk: Understood
CBC
Understood takes you deep inside the seismic shifts reshaping our world right now. From online porn and crypto chaos to the rise of tech oligarchs, deepfake AI, and the broken promises of the internet — we explore the stories that define our digital age with hosts and characters embedded in the heart of the action.We value your input! Fill out our listener survey here.Season 1 - The Naked Emperor: the rise and fall of bitcoin king Sam Bankman-Fried.Season 2 - The Pornhub Empire: the story of how a Montreal-founded company came to dominate the adult industry.Season 3 - Modi’s India: how one man rose from poverty to the peak of political power.Season 4 - Céline: the surprising cultural, political and business alchemy that created a superstar.Season 5 - Who Broke the Internet? The internet sucks now, and it happened on purpose.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Making of Musk: Understood podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Picks and Shovels
Cory Doctorow
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Abby Hoffman's autobiography
Abbie Hoffman
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Bezel
Cory Doctorow
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
Samantha Cole
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Red Tea Blues
Cory Doctorow
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Chasing Shadows
Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy
Ronald Deibert
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The big short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The antitrust paradox
A Policy at War With Itself
Robert H. Bork
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
In the plex
Steven Levy
