Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / Nov 21, 2024

The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Becca Lewis on the right-wing tech project of the 1990s.

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The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet w/ Becca Lewis | Tech Won't Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today. Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.

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Texas Governor and US presidential candidate George W. Bush listens to Shane Linstrom as Virginia Governor James Gilmore III (R) looks on during a tour of the High Tech Adventure Camp at Thomas A. Edison High School in Alexandria, VA 14 July 1999.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the Internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today. Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.

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Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands w/ MV Ramana | Tech Won't Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by MV Ramana to discuss the tech industry’s push to have nuclear energy power its data centers and why the reality of nuclear power isn’t as great as its promoters often make it seem.

MV Ramana is a Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.

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Paris Marx

Paris Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

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