Hello. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week I will be the only voice in your ear.

As I said last week, I had planned to have Richard Barbrook on the show to talk about the

Californian ideology and how that

has kind of evolved over the decades since he first wrote about it with his colleague Andy Cameron.

But unfortunately, we ran into some scheduling difficulties. So we're going to reschedule that episode

for the future. You're still going to get that conversation. It just won't be this week.

And unfortunately, by the time I

found that out, there simply wasn't enough time to find a new guest to come on. So I'll make up the

missing episode in the future. But I figured this would still be a good opportunity for me to

record something quick and to kind of reflect on the first year of Tech Won't Save Us and kind of what's

coming next, what I have planned for the future. I think I want to start though just with kind of

reintroducing myself. I know that if you're a regular listener to the show, you hear me talking to

you every week. You know that my name is

Paris Marks, but I don't know, maybe you don't know much more than that if you haven't taken

any time to look anything up about me. So just briefly, in addition to hosting this podcast,

I am a freelance writer that's kind of my main thing outside of this. And I write pretty regularly for NBC News,

for CBC News, for Jacobin magazine in the U.S., for Tribune Magazine in the UK, and for passage in Canada.

I write a lot about tech from a critical perspective, obviously. If you listen to the show regularly,

you know that I have a lot of opinions on that.

But I also write about other political issues from a left-wing perspective, you know, on climate,

on inequality, and other things like that. But then on top of the writing and the podcasting,

I'm also still working my way through the university system. I have a master's degree in geography from

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