Podcasts – The Technoskeptic: Recent Episodes
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Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.
Facial recognition expert Clare Garvie explains how police are using (and abusing) this dangerous technology.
Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.
Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.
Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.
Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis's views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.
Jonathan Taplin, former music and film professional, tells first-hand what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators like Google and Facebook has done to the creative arts, journalism, and democracy.
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it's been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.