I want to talk about things that are better, but first we have to stop the incoming tide of the bad shit, which is what A16Z is pushing, which is the financialization of everything, which I think is really what Web 3 is about.

Hello, and I'm going to. Hello and welcome to episode 100 of Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and I'm so excited that we are finally hitting this milestone.

Over the past nearly two years, the podcast will turn to in April, I've gotten to speak with so many fantastic guests who have such enlightening and critical perspectives on the tech industry and the technologies that we use every single day that hopefully have helped to further inform you on those topics so you can better understand the impact that these companies and technologies are having on our lives, on our society, and why we shouldn't just stand back

and let them do whatever they want, but should be ready to call their ideas and actions

into question when they do not serve the public good, as they so often do not,

because, you know, naturally, these are companies that need to serve the bottom line to make

profit, and often, maybe even always, that puts those actions in conflict with the social good.

And so personally, I'm not really interested in what is going to make a company a lot of money.

I am interested in making the world a better place.

And I'm open to how technology can help us to do that.

But that also means we need to recognize the technologies and the actions that are not doing that or leading us in the wrong direction.

And so I hope that tech won't save us over these past

100 episodes have helped to inform that and to inform you about this industry and the products

and services that it makes. And to continue that, this week I'm joined by returning guest, Jacob

Silverman. Jacob is a staff writer at the New Republic and he writes about crypto with the actor Ben McKenzie. Now, Jacob Silverman. Jacob is a staff writer at the New Republic, and he writes about

crypto with the actor Ben McKenzie. Now, Jacob says he wouldn't say this, but I think he has

really become one of the leading crypto critics going today. I think he has such an incisive

analysis of this industry, of crypto, NFTs, Web 3, and this whole space. And over the past number of

months, it's been fantastic to see that get more recognition as he's been writing about it more

and was recently on The Dig podcast to give that essential critical perspective that we need.

But now he's back on the show and there is so much that we could have talked about, but I think

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