The more we create and allow systems to embed themselves that treat every interaction as an opportunity for like a computational thing to get in between people, it encourages and brings on a lot of problems.

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this month, April 2021 is the first birthday of the podcast. I started Tech Won't Save Us in April of 2020 as myself and

many other people around the world

were in lockdown. I'd wanted to start a podcast for a long time delving into these very

issues that I've been able to talk to people about for the past year. And while obviously I hoped

that it would do really well, I've been really humbled and just happy to see how the podcast

has resonated with so many people around the world to tune in every week or, you know,

just occasionally to catch an episode that seems interesting to them and have told me that

they've learned things from the podcast and that they've started to look at technology and

the tech industry in a different way. And obviously that is the goal and that they've started to look at technology and the tech industry in a

different way. And obviously that is the goal and that's something that I want to continue doing

into the future. In the past year, Tech Won't Save Us has had listeners from more than 130 countries

around the world. This will be episode 55 and we've had 56 guests in total.

The podcast currently has more than 170 reviews across at least 28 countries on Apple

podcasts, and more than 125 of the listeners have chosen to become monthly supporters so I can

keep doing this work and expand the kind of work that I'm doing to bring attention

to criticism and critical analysis of technology. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.

It's really fantastic. Last month, we hit an important milestone. We passed $500 in monthly support,

and as a result, I'm going to use those funds to put together a new website

for the podcast and to start working on getting transcripts done so people can access the content

of these episodes and these interviews in another way and hopefully make it easier for people

to reference back to, to quote from, and just to read and learn from if they don't like to

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