The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ralph spends the whole hour with journalist Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, about how the Big Four, Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are attempting to dominate every aspect of our lives and minds. Plus, we get Ralph’s take on the Bernie Sanders’ single-payer bill, and he answers more listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
| 0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.6 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader. Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my |
| 0:17.9 | co-host David. Hello David. How are you doing today? |
| 0:21.0 | Good and I stand corrected climate change is real. |
| 0:25.0 | Finally, we finally got through to you. |
| 0:28.0 | He's only kidding. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay, well that voice is the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Well that |
| 0:33.0 | voice is the man of the hour. |
| 0:34.0 | Ralph Nader wants to make sure that you know that David is only kidding. |
| 0:37.5 | Ralph, David is always kidding. |
| 0:39.5 | How are you doing, Ralph? |
| 0:41.0 | Fine. |
| 0:42.0 | We have one of the most important books of the decade to talk about, which is published this month. |
| 0:47.0 | So hang on listeners, this affects you every hour of the day and night. |
| 0:53.3 | Wow, we're gonna have to live up to that. |
| 0:55.4 | Well, last week we talked about how Amazon |
| 0:57.7 | is trying to take over the world |
| 0:59.5 | and that the current definitions of monopoly |
| 1:01.4 | and antitrust law do not keep up with the challenges that that phenomenon |
| 1:05.3 | poses. So today we widen the discussion to include not only what high tech is doing to the |
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