That's the thing is like you trying to align your life in which technology is not purely antagonistic

required doing some like borderline illegal shit sometimes or like things that like the people who make it don't want you to do. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us, made in partnership with The Nation magazine.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Chris Person.

Chris is a co-founder of Aftermath, a great independent video game news site, and makes a video

series called Highlight Real. Now, I've been following Chris's work for quite a while, and I

have to admit, this episode is a bit of one of those where I was just like, I find what this

person does really interesting. I'm interested

in having a conversation with him, so I'm going to have him on the show. Chris writes a lot about

video games, of course, no surprise there, but also about hardware and just like everyday consumer

goods and seems to have really strong opinions on those sorts of things and just likes to figure

out what is good, what works well, and displays this like interest in hardware, you know, computer

hardware that I feel like is not as common anymore, but maybe used to be more common in the

past. And to a certain degree, I feel like, is maybe coming back, you know, as we see people

talk about using retro gadgets, potentially getting off streaming services and, you know,

listening to CDs or vinyl or something like that again.

And just these various ways that the way that we use digital technology is potentially

shifting in this moment and how that is not

just about services and software, but also like the physical manifestation of those things as well.

And what that all means. Given that we're both very focused on the tech industry, there's a whole

side of this that relates to the AI boom that is going on right now as well, where, you know, as we

talk about consumer hardware, as we talk about computers, prices for a lot of those things are going

up right now because these massive tech companies are buying up so much memory, so many other

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