

System Crash
System Crash
Tech giants like Google and Facebook have conquered — some would say killed — the internet. Elon Musk used his platform to help elect Trump, and Silicon Valley elites want to gut the public sector. OpenAI and Microsoft aim to wipe away millions of jobs. Uber is driving down wages. Apple is impenetrable. Amazon is inescapable. All this high tech, and our quality of life is getting lower. The system has crashed. So, System Crash: a weekly tech news show willing to tell the hard truths about how tech — and the titans who own and operate it — is really transforming the world. Co-hosts Paris Marx and Brian Merchant dissect the stories that matter, break news of their own, offer expert commentary, and interview journalists, whistleblowers, authors, and tech workers and ordinary people fighting back.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the System Crash podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Empire of AI

#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fourth Wing

#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Blood in the Machine
The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Filter Bubble
What the Internet Is Hiding from You
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Notes from a Regicide
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Bookstore at the End of America

#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Easy Money
Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Anxious Generation

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Atlas Shrugged

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Bullshit Jobs
A Theory

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Road to Nowhere

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Contrarian
Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Lord of the Rings

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Picks and Shovels
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Awakened

#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes