Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to talk about how the tech industry is responding to COVID-19, how tech workers may find their jobs at risk in the aftermath, and why we need to change the system to build tech for the public good instead of in service to private capital.

Wendy Liu is the author of "Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism." You can buy it from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/abolish-silicon-valley-how-to-liberate-technology-from-capitalism/

Tech's Response to COVID-19 with Wendy Liu

Paris Marx is joined by James Wilt to talk about how COVID-19 is affecting transportation systems, the flaws in tech’s auto-oriented visions of the future, and why we need to fight for better transit systems to more equitably serve everyone. James Wilt is the author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk". You can buy it from BTL Books (https://btlbooks.com/book/do-androids-dream-of-electric-cars).

Transit is the Future with James Wilt

Ziya Tong joins Paris Marx to talk about how COVID-19 is helping us to see the world in a new way, and how that might open the door to reimagining how we organize society. Our "reality bubbles" about work, the food system, technology, and our relationship to nature are being severely challenged, but the question remains whether we can seize this moment to build a better world in the pandemic's aftermath. Ziya Tong is the author of "The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World" (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/568675/the-reality-bubble-by-ziya-tong/), a former co-host of Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel, and sits on the board of World Wildlife Fund International.

Bursting the Reality Bubble with Ziya Tong

Elon Musk has a tech solution for everything, but who do his ideas really serve? In each episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx will be joined a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its thought leaders, and the worldview that emanates from Silicon Valley. They will challenge the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by illustrating how separating tech from politics has consequences for nearly everyone, especially the most vulnerable. But if tech won't save us, what will? This podcast isn't simply about tearing down tech, but presenting radical ideas for a better world; one where cities are oriented around people instead of cars, where the economy serves the public instead of profit, and — yes — where tech is designed for human flourishing instead of surveillance, acquisitions, or to boost stock prices. A better world is possible, and so is better technology.