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What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die?

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Tamara Kneese on an afterlife as A.I. chatbots.

Paris Marx

September 26, 2024

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What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara Kneese | Tech Won’t Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Tamara Kneese to discuss the difficult question of what happens to our digital presence after we die and why some tech billionaires are so desperate to make themselves into chatbots. Tamara Kneese is a researcher, organizer, and author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Tamara Kneese to discuss the difficult question of what happens to our digital presence after we die and why some tech billionaires are so desperate to make themselves into chatbots.Tamara Kneese is a researcher and organizer, and the author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.

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Why Communities Want to Stop Flock Cameras w/ Jason Koebler / Tech Won’t Save Us
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No one is comfortable with police surveillance in the US, which is why there’s a bipartisan backlash to Flock cameras. Jason Koebler joins Paris Marx to discuss the rise of Flock, how their cameras are being pitched by right-wing politicians and police agencies, and how they’re being used to stalk residents from coast to coast.

Jason Koebler is a co-founder of 404 Media and co-host of the 404 Media Podcast.

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Paris MarxParis Marx is the author of Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires. He hosts the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and writes the Disconnect newsletter.


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