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Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU — 106 episodes

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Julie Scelfo, founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA) from May 4, 2026

2

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, author, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You" from Apr 27, 2026

3

Starlink and Kessler Syndrome, feat. astronomer Samantha Lawler from Apr 20, 2026

4

Cindy Cohn, author, "Privacy's Defender" from Apr 13, 2026

5

Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn, authors, "Move Slow and Upgrade" from Apr 6, 2026

6

Dystopia update: good news edition from Mar 30, 2026

7

Janet Vertesi, founder of the Opt Out Project from Mar 23, 2026

8

A visit to Repair Cafe El Barrio from Mar 16, 2026

9

Marathon week 2 w/cohost Jesse Jarnow from Mar 9, 2026

10

Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman from Mar 2, 2026

11

Celebrating 400 episodes of Techtonic from Feb 23, 2026

12

Chris Gilliard on Amazon’s admission that Ring spies on us from Feb 16, 2026

13

Peter Dear ("The World As We Know It") and how we interpret AI from Feb 9, 2026

14

AI is spreading where it doesn't belong from Feb 2, 2026

15

Peter Schmidt on the book "Attensity" by the Friends of Attention from Jan 26, 2026

16

Paul Bradley Carr, author, "The Confessions" from Jan 19, 2026

17

Lora Kolodny from CNBC on Grok's sexualized images from Jan 12, 2026

18

Ken Freedman and Mark discuss the year ahead from Jan 5, 2026

19

Tim Wu, author, "The Age of Extraction" from Dec 29, 2025

20

The Ghost of Christmas Tech Anxieties - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Adam Allsuch Boardman from Dec 22, 2025

21

The first annual Creepy Awards from Dec 15, 2025

22

Noah McCormack from The Baffler: "We used to read things in this country" from Dec 8, 2025

23

Amateur radio is a superpower: Thomas Witherspoon from Dec 1, 2025

24

Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat Garofalo from Nov 24, 2025

25

How low can the tech oligarchs go? from Nov 17, 2025

26

Paul Mozur on the spread of data centers from Nov 10, 2025

27

Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data" from Nov 3, 2025

28

Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan Currell from Oct 27, 2025

29

Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite renaissance from Oct 20, 2025

30

The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane from Oct 13, 2025

31

AI and surveillance keep spreading from Oct 6, 2025

32

Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" from Sep 29, 2025

33

Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows" from Sep 22, 2025

34

Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood) from Sep 15, 2025

35

Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic from Sep 8, 2025

36

Cory Doctorow, author and journalist from Sep 1, 2025

37

Webb Keane, author, "Animals, Robots, Gods" from Aug 25, 2025

38

If/Then/Else - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Brendan Keogh from Aug 18, 2025

39

Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever" from Aug 11, 2025

40

Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth from Jul 28, 2025

41

Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism from Jul 14, 2025

42

Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis" from Aug 4, 2025

43

Daniel Solove, author, "On Privacy and Technology" from Jul 21, 2025

44

Burn Hollywood Burn - Will AI save the movies? Dan Morfitt fills in with guest John Ashbrook from Jul 7, 2025

45

Compulsory surveillance and other threats from Jun 30, 2025

46

Lori Emerson, author, "Other Networks" from Jun 23, 2025

47

Unveiling our new theme song by Kirk Pearson, and Big Tech alternatives from Jun 16, 2025

48

Matt Warwick fills in for Techtonic with Co-Host HurstBot from Jun 9, 2025

49

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, authors, "The AI Con" from Jun 2, 2025

50

David Greenwood, author, "The Cloud Intern" from May 26, 2025

51

Surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard on Facebook's spy glasses from May 19, 2025

52

Discussing "Careless People" by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from May 12, 2025

53

Sybil Derrible, author, "The Infrastructure Book" from May 5, 2025

54

Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies from Apr 28, 2025

55

The Defunding of Public Radio with Jesse Walker, Uri Berliner and Sue Matters from Apr 21, 2025

56

John Warner, author, "More Than Words" from Apr 14, 2025

57

Sue-Lin Wong and online scams from Apr 7, 2025

58

Emergency surveillance update from Mar 31, 2025

59

Liz Pelly, author, "Mood Machine" from Mar 24, 2025

60

Ben Snyder, author, "Spy Plane" from Mar 17, 2025

61

Marathon week 2 w/cohost Matt Warwick from Mar 10, 2025

62

Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman from Mar 3, 2025

63

AI and the future of war – with "Flash Wars" director Daniel Wunderer from Feb 24, 2025

64

Nick Couldry, author, "The Space of the World" from Feb 17, 2025

65

August Lamm: you don't need a smartphone from Feb 10, 2025

66

Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin from Feb 3, 2025

67

Welcome to the oligarchy: on Big Tech's government takeover from Jan 27, 2025

68

Kirk Pearson, author, "Electronic Music From Scratch" from Jan 20, 2025

69

Stone carvers Chris Pellettieri and Arissa Ramoutar from Jan 13, 2025

70

Ken Freedman and Mark Hurst listen to AI from Jan 6, 2025

71

Andrew Smith, author, "Devil in the Stack" from Dec 30, 2024

72

Guest host Don Fleming: Musical Tech: Naughty or Nice? from Dec 23, 2024

73

Our year of surveillance from Dec 16, 2024

74

Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil" from Dec 9, 2024

75

Nicole Kobie, author, "The Long History of the Future" from Dec 2, 2024

76

Technology we're thankful for, from listeners from Nov 25, 2024

77

Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk from Nov 18, 2024

78

Guest host Station Mgr Ken interviews David Suisman on music and the military from Nov 11, 2024

79

Dystopia update from Nov 4, 2024

80

Members of the Luddite Club from Oct 28, 2024

81

Christopher Brown, author, "A Natural History of Empty Lots" from Oct 21, 2024

82

Yaroslav Trofimov, author, "Our Enemies Will Vanish" from Oct 14, 2024

83

Silkie Carlo, director, Big Brother Watch from Oct 7, 2024

84

Tim Schwab, author, "The Bill Gates Problem" from Sep 30, 2024

85

What if no one wants AI? from Sep 23, 2024

86

Helen Phillips, author, "HUM" from Sep 16, 2024

87

Even more devices are spying on you from Sep 9, 2024

88

Carl Öhman, author, "The Afterlife of Data" from Sep 2, 2024

89

Guest host Alan on Rancho Mastatal from Aug 26, 2024

90

Paula Bialski, author, "Middle Tech" from Aug 19, 2024

91

Google antitrust decision party from Aug 12, 2024

92

Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use from Aug 5, 2024

93

Tech and the sandwich generation from Jul 29, 2024

94

Guest host Brian D. on disinformation with Kirsten Eddy and Alex Mahadevan from Jul 22, 2024

95

Generative AI and the "cesspool internet" – with Jason Koebler from Jul 15, 2024

96

How it started, how it's going: revisiting the warnings of the past from Jul 8, 2024

97

Carissa Véliz on digital ethics from Jul 1, 2024

98

Byron Tau, author, "Means of Control" from Jun 24, 2024

99

Listener questions from Jun 17, 2024

100

Mark Schatzker and "Food, Inc. 2" from Jun 10, 2024

101

Matt Warwick guest hosts Techtonic: What's the best robot? from Jun 3, 2024

102

We should all switch to Linux from May 27, 2024

103

What's eating Google? from May 20, 2024

104

Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for from May 13, 2024

105

"Data Grab" by Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry from May 6, 2024

106

Michael Shelley on AI-generated music from Apr 29, 2024