Hello and happy holidays. There is not a new episode of Tech Won't Save Us this week because I am taking a much needed and I hope you agree much deserved week off.

But I did want to make a quick recording to thank you for your support of the show through 2021, for listening to the show, for being interested in all of these conversations that I have with all of these fascinating people

who come on the show and share their knowledge and expertise with us every single week.

It has just been such a fantastic year for Tech Won't Save Us.

The show has covered so many fascinating topics, including our history series back in May that looked at the history of

technological systems in France, in Chile, in the Soviet Union, and in the United States itself.

And certainly I've done other episodes on history besides that, including with Mar Hicks on the

UK. And then there was the gig economy series

in October where I spoke to people from Canada, Australia, Brazil, India, the UK, and the EU about what's

going on with the gig economy in their parts of the world to give us some insight on what's happening

on the regulatory level, but also what workers are doing to push back and to improve their working conditions. And besides that, I've had other episodes

on the gay economy in the United States and even in Indonesia when I spoke with Rilik Hadry.

We've also done plenty of episodes on Amazon and everything that it has been up to this year, but specifically

what it's been doing to its workers and how they have been organizing and trying to push back

on the terrible working conditions that it creates. This was also a big year for the space

billionaires. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos both hopped on their rockets and went up into the sky.

You know, I think there's some debate about whether they actually went to space or not.

But certainly, finally seeing them do so did kick off a conversation about whether this is the right way that humanity should be using its resources.

And whether all of that money that is going into private space travel should actually

be going into solving the many social, economic, and environmental crises that we're dealing

with right here on Earth today.

And you've probably also noticed that we've had more episodes on crypto and Web 3 kind of

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