Smart Glasses Are Ushering In an Antisocial World
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us: Chris Gilliard on how tech CEOs are hawking their latest luxury line of AI-powered smart glasses.
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Smart Glasses Are Ushering In An Anti-Social World w/ Chris Gilliard | Tech Won’t Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how tech CEOs are pushing a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses by promising they’ll be stylish and indispensable to workers in a desperate attempt to convince us we should want their luxury surveillance gadgets.
Chris Gilliard is the co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and is working on a book called Luxury Surveillance.
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$799 Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
(David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images)Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how tech CEOs are pushing a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses by promising they’ll be stylish and indispensable to workers, in a desperate attempt to convince us we should want their luxury surveillance gadgets.
Chris Gilliard is the codirector of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and is working on a book called Luxury Surveillance.
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The Luddite Club is For Everyone w/ Amanda Hanna-McLeer & Lucy Jackson | Tech Won’t Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Hanna-McLeer and Lucy Jackson to discuss the story of The Luddite Club, from its beginnings as a high school organization to its pivot into a non-profit and growth into an international movement.
Amanda Hanna-McLeer is a writer, educator, and director of The Luddite Club documentary. Lucy Jackson is an early member of the Luddite Club.
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