You obviously have grander space ambitions than going to the edge of it.

Did this moment motivate you to push deeper into the cosmos?

Hell yes. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is, well, it's me.

I was debating it for a few days, but after watching the coverage of Jeff Bezos' launch into space on the morning of July 20th,

I decided I want to take this time. I want to take an episode of the podcast to really dig

into these billionaires' visions of space, what's wrong with them, and why we should really

be concerned about the project that I think they are

trying to move forward. You know, obviously, you'll know it's very uncommon for me to kind of take

an episode of the podcast for myself. I've never really done it before other than to celebrate

the first birthday of the podcast. But I thought, if there's ever a time to do it, now is the time. Because I wrote an article

about this space launch, about what the billionaires are trying to do in space. And I still felt like

I didn't get it all out. You know, I wasn't able to fully dig into it, even though it was, you know,

a fairly long article. It was very well received. It was written for Tribune, republished in Jacobin,

translated into German, Italian, Turkish. You know, hopefully there will be more that will come.

But after seeing how the media was covering this event and how they were just buying into these

narratives that were being put forward by Jeff Bezos, especially the cable media.

I think like the published media was not as bad, though I guess we'll see.

You know, obviously you got more critical perspectives online, but I feel like the people who

were most excited about this, other than Jeff Bezos himself, were the media pundits and the media

anchors who were doing the work of kind of selling

this ideology, of selling this idea to the public. And I think it's a public that largely is

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