This is the Guardian. to break out in southern Lebanon.

Today in focus is supported by A Sense of Rebellion,

a new podcast series by tech critic

Evgeny Morozov.

Forget the military or Silicon Valley.

We owe our smart technologies, from fidget to doorbells, to a band of eccentric 1960s hippies.

Hidden away in a secretive privately funded lab, these visionaries developed intimate personal technologies a decade

before Steve Jobs. But their rebellion was fraught with obstacles. The military

industrial complex, corporate Resistance, and the Founders

Larger-than-Life personalities. As Silicon Valley adopted their ideas,

the Lab's vision for more humane technologies was twisted into something entirely different.

A decade in the making, this podcast explores a fascinating countercultural project at the dawn of the digital revolution,

a path not taken. From LSD and Scientology to AI and the CIA, each episode blends insights

gained through deep research with drama and mystery.

A sense of rebellion is available on all platforms wherever you listen to your

podcasts. Oh wow, we've just passed the building that has just been fully pancaked.

I mean that's completely destroyed.

We are going to see a lot of them.

I'm in an armoured car creeping through a village called Kfard Keller in the mountains of Southern Lebanon.

Wow all around us is just destroyed buildings.

Twisted wires and rubble and then these plants as well.

I mean these bright pink plants in, you know, middle of the destruction.

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