The Rot Economy ft Robert Evans
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder why Google results are getting worse, or why you aren't seeing your friends on Instagram? It's all because of the growth-at-all-costs economy that's swallowed the tech industry, where the user experience takes a back seat to monetizing every interaction with the platforms you used to love. Ed Zitron is joined by Cool Zone Media's Robert Evans to walk you through the economic theory that's destroying the tech industry from within.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.5 | Quarzo Media. |
| 0:09.5 | Welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 0:12.8 | I've spent the last 15 years in tech, both as a reporter and a public relations executive. |
| 0:17.6 | And over that career, I've realized that many see the tech industry is kind of a |
| 0:20.8 | monolith. |
| 0:21.8 | It's actually a lot simpler than you'd imagine, and it's my mission with this podcast, |
| 0:26.1 | to cut through the buzzwords and nonsense, and explain to you how venture capital and big |
| 0:30.1 | tech are trying to change the future, for better or for worse. |
| 0:33.9 | Today I'm joined by Robert Evans of Cool Zone Media to break down a theory I have that is pretty |
| 0:38.4 | much core to everything I think about, and we'll talk to you about on this podcast. |
| 0:49.6 | Thank you for having me, Ed. I love that we're coming on to talk about this because the concept you're about to introduce was like the thing that made me reach out to you about doing this show or at least one of the major ones. |
| 1:03.3 | I think everyone has this feeling that like something is fucked up and wrong. |
| 1:07.7 | We can remember this period of like optimism about technology and the |
| 1:12.0 | internet and like not just feeling excited about like new shit that we could buy, but feeling |
| 1:17.2 | excited about the things that technology was going to bring us, the promise of like the new |
| 1:22.3 | digital age. And that all fell aside to be replaced by this looming sense of doom so quickly that I don't |
| 1:29.6 | think a lot of us have a good idea about like why it happened. And you know what? I think that's |
| 1:36.1 | actually a great place to start with a very simple question. Why does it feel like the tech we use |
| 1:42.6 | every day is getting worse? |
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