Introducing: Better Offline
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Hi, It Could Happen Here Fans! Take a listen to the trailer from the newest show from Cool Zone Media - Better Offline
About the show: Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Ed Zittron, host of the Better offline Podcast on the Cool Zone Media Network. |
| 0:05.0 | I've been both the tech writer and a tech executive for the last 15 years, |
| 0:09.0 | and I've seen this industry grow from a bunch of dorks building things in their garage into a |
| 0:13.9 | multi trillion dollar behemoth that has monetized every corner of our lives. |
| 0:17.9 | Better offline as a podcast where I'll lead you through the good, the bad and the |
| 0:22.2 | stupid of the tech industry you through the good, the bad and the stupid of the tech industry, |
| 0:24.0 | cutting through the fanciful jargon, and telling you exactly what executives like Tim Cook, |
| 0:28.6 | Sam Aulman, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are really planning to do with your future. |
| 0:34.0 | Tech can often feel confusing and monolithic, and it's my job to break down the biggest story |
| 0:38.2 | so that you can see it's actually pretty straightforward. |
| 0:41.5 | Somebody's using software or hardware to get rich. Sometimes that benefits you, and |
| 0:45.0 | sometimes it hurts you. Sometimes it means that Google makes their search results worse because |
| 0:49.2 | they want to make more money. Sometimes it means that you don't see your friends on Instagram |
| 0:53.6 | because they need to sell more ads. And sometimes it means that shady |
| 0:57.5 | foreign entities use massive compute resources to pump up the price of |
| 1:01.2 | crypto currencies conning customers into losing billions of dollars. |
| 1:05.0 | I want you to be smarter and more aware of your digital lives, all while understanding the |
| 1:09.9 | agendas of those involved. Be they big tech entities like Microsoft and Meta or |
| 1:14.3 | untrustworthy little startup founders that are working on innovative new ways to |
| 1:18.4 | trick you into giving them access to your data. I'm your guide to the future, |
| 1:22.2 | even if the future can be a little bit intimidating. |
| 1:25.0 | I'll bring you tales directly from the rotten core of the tech economy, joined by a rotating cast of the smartest people in the industry, |
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