Crypto is financializing everything.

And I don't see how introducing a financial incentive to the web will decrease people's hopes to profit from it and their hyper-competitive behavior that comes out of that.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this month, April of 2022, is the second birthday of Tech Won't Save Us.

I can't believe it's already been two years since starting this podcast in the midst of the first COVID lockdown.

But it has been so fantastic to see the impact that it's had over those two years with listeners from more than 170 countries around the world.

And with a listenership that just keeps growing, that grew by five times last year alone,

and that I hope to continue growing this year. Over the past year, I've done series on the history

of technological systems around the world in May, where we talked about Silicon Valley,

the Soviet Union, Chile, and France. And then in October, I did a series on the gig economy around the

world so that we could get insights on what was going on with the gay economies in those jurisdictions.

It was so great and I learned so much from doing it. And then earlier this week, I also launched

the new Tech Won't Save Us website that was designed by listener and supporter of the show,

Gabi Shaftson. And it is fantastic. It has a retro aesthetic. You can find all the old podcast episodes

on there. You can search them by keyword. And we also have a reading list. So you can find a ton of

great books to read on a whole load of different topics on technology

that you might enjoy. I can't believe that we're already on episode 108 of the podcast,

but there's still so much left to do and so many more topics to cover. But it's getting to the

point where I can't do this all on my own. You might have noticed that the Hammer newsletter

has kind of been on hiatus since the end

of January.

That's simply because I haven't had the time to keep that up while doing the podcast and

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