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Tech Won't Save Us

Bursting the NFT Bubble w/ Jacob Silverman

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

Silicon Valley, Books, Technology, Arts, Future, Tech Criticism, Socialism, Paris Marx, News, Criticism, Tech News, Politics

4.8626 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the implications of the recent NFT boom, the libertarian ideology that underpins crypto, and where the hype economy goes from here. Jacob Silverman is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of “Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection.” Follow Jacob on Twitter as @SilvermanJacob. 🎉 In April 2021, Tech Won’t Save Us celebrates its first birthday. If we get 30 new supporters at $5+ per month, we’ll start ...

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Amtees are this great kind of neoliberal technology because you can tokenize all kinds of things from a tweet to a real piece of art to just any website or something like that.

0:09.0

Pretty much anything can be submitted to this process.

0:26.5

Hello. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks, and I'm very happy to say that after setting a goal of getting 30 new supporters at $5 a month last week to celebrate the first anniversary of the podcast this month to start a weekly

0:40.3

critical tech newsletter. As of the time of recording, we are only one person away from hitting

0:46.1

that 30 supporter goal. That's incredible. I'm so happy to see the response and the number of people

0:53.4

who were willing to become supporters

0:55.7

after I set that goal.

0:57.6

It's really fantastic.

0:59.2

And so I want to thank a few people.

1:00.8

Some of these names are from before the past week.

1:04.1

And I always check with people to see if they are okay with getting a shout out on the

1:08.6

show.

1:09.0

So not all the names of the people who joined

1:11.3

in the past week are here. But I want to say thank you to Eleanor from Dublin, Al B.J., Rich Gull, Nick Mayhew,

1:18.9

Will Irmston, Matthews Morera, Enrique Lopez Valenza, Chris from Walnut Grove, Stefan, Sarah Pratt,

1:26.4

Patty Duke, Julia from San Francisco, Vass Bednar,

1:30.0

Sigrid from Munich, and Patrick Riley. The support of all the people I just named, who are part of

1:36.4

the more than 150 people who now support the podcast on Patreon, are not only going to help me

1:42.6

start a weekly newsletter for the podcast so that we can

1:46.2

reach even more people with the perspectives that I'm discussing with the guests every week on

1:51.5

the show, but it will also help me to put together a new website for the podcast, transcripts to go

1:57.5

on that website so that people can interact with and learn from this content in more

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