Best Surveillancecapitalism Podcasts (2024)

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"have you ever heard of a penny strike?" 1:08:33

4y ago1:08:33

1:08:33

Now, more than ever, as we work from home, gather with friends on social media, shop for groceries online, it feels like this tsunami of digital dependence and loss of personal privacy will wash over everything. That once these companies (and now governments) storm the beaches of our minds, they will not give those positions back peacefully. But th…

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"We can find anybody within three square meters" 1:57:46

4+ y ago1:57:46

1:57:46

This argument about efficiency feels like it has seeped into every aspect of our society. We give up more and more of ourselves to tech companies because we want to use our time as efficiently as possible. We structure our economy in such a way that the entire success of our nation is determined by whether the growth of our Gross Domestic Product i…

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"This Will Change Everything" 31:54

4+ y ago31:54

31:54

This week’s episode of Everything They Know was supposed to be about a hypothetical dark future, where we’ve done nothing to rein in Big Tech and Surveillance Capitalism, where algorithmic prediction has gotten to 100% and has created perfect echo-bubbles for each of us, where authoritarian techno-governments and their cronies control every aspect …

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"Is Twitter the same as what you do?" 1:04:24

4+ y ago1:04:24

1:04:24

In previous episodes we’ve looked at this issue of tech dominance from several angles. We’ve seen how they gather data, what they can do with it, how they make money from it, and how social media allows them to muddy the water and shape the narrative. You may have asked yourself along the way, “how can they do this? Why doesn’t the government do an…