Season 3: Using Tech to Citizen

How To Citizen with Baratunde

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, News, Technology

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Season three of How To Citizen with Baratunde is all about tech. Launching October 28th, we’re bringing you the people using technology for more than revenue and user growth. They are using it to help us citizen.

We don’t have to live in the futures shown in Terminator, Black Mirror, or Westworld. We can choose a different path. Instead of being used by tech, we can use tech to bolster our community participation, strengthen our relationships, and help us flex our collective power.

This season brings you those stories.

Follow the show’s Instagram, and visit the website - howtocitizen.com - to learn more about the show’s topics and continue your citizen journey beyond the podcast.

Also sign up for Baratunde's weekly Recommentunde Newsletter, follow him on Instagram, or sign up for his column on Puck. You can even text him right now at 202-894-8844.

CREDITS

How To Citizen with Baratunde is a production of iHeartRadio Podcasts and Dustlight Productions. Our executive producers are Baratunde Thurston, Elizabeth Stewart, and Misha Euceph. Our senior producer is Tamika Adams. Our producer is Alie Kilts, and our assistant producer is Sam Paulson. Stephanie Cohn is our editor. Valentino Rivera is our senior engineer. And Matthew Lai is our apprentice.

Original Music by Andrew Eapen. With additional original music for Season 3 from Andrew Clausen. Special thanks to Joelle Smith from iHeartRadio and Rachael Garcia at Dustlight Productions.

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0:00.0	Okay, let's try this out. Hey Siri, how do I sit?
0:04.6	How do I citizen? I didn't get that. Can you try again? How do I?
0:09.9	Citizen. Did you mean citizen's bank? Did you mean citizen Kane? Did you mean cinnamon?
0:16.2	Siri! I'm trying my best. It's all good Siri. Looks like I have to talk to actual humans to solve human problems.
0:22.9	When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning. When we see user experience, let's make it about human experience.
0:33.9	That's poetry. I made poetry.
0:36.9	Because scale is moronic, honestly. Every platform that has built for scale sucks.
0:41.9	You know, and you see that in the way that either the people there suck or the features suck.
0:46.9	Or both. More often than not both, honestly.
0:49.9	So open source is not something that tell you but understand. You didn't see that coming.
0:56.9	I just open source is not something the Taliban understand. I mean, that's beautiful.
1:03.9	Hi, I'm Baratunde, host of the show How to Citizen with Baratunde.
1:08.9	Where we see the word citizen as a verb, not just illegal status. And this season is all about tech.
1:15.9	We once thought tech would save the world. Now we fear it may bring about the end time.
1:22.9	But we don't have to live in the future we see in black mirror.
1:25.9	Tech has the potential to bolster our community participation, strengthen our relationships, and help us flex our collective power.
1:33.9	So for season three, I'm talking to people who are building tech that helps give power back to the people.
1:40.9	I still believe it's possible to use tech to help us citizen. This season we're telling a new story about technology.
1:47.9	And a new story about us launching October 28th. Listen to How to Citizen with Baratunde on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
1:57.9	Did you mean democracy? Yes, Siri. We'll get. We'll get to that.

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