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Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU — 106 episodes
Julie Scelfo, founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA) from May 4, 2026
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, author, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You" from Apr 27, 2026
Starlink and Kessler Syndrome, feat. astronomer Samantha Lawler from Apr 20, 2026
Cindy Cohn, author, "Privacy's Defender" from Apr 13, 2026
Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn, authors, "Move Slow and Upgrade" from Apr 6, 2026
Dystopia update: good news edition from Mar 30, 2026
Janet Vertesi, founder of the Opt Out Project from Mar 23, 2026
A visit to Repair Cafe El Barrio from Mar 16, 2026
Marathon week 2 w/cohost Jesse Jarnow from Mar 9, 2026
Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman from Mar 2, 2026
Celebrating 400 episodes of Techtonic from Feb 23, 2026
Chris Gilliard on Amazon’s admission that Ring spies on us from Feb 16, 2026
Peter Dear ("The World As We Know It") and how we interpret AI from Feb 9, 2026
AI is spreading where it doesn't belong from Feb 2, 2026
Peter Schmidt on the book "Attensity" by the Friends of Attention from Jan 26, 2026
Paul Bradley Carr, author, "The Confessions" from Jan 19, 2026
Lora Kolodny from CNBC on Grok's sexualized images from Jan 12, 2026
Ken Freedman and Mark discuss the year ahead from Jan 5, 2026
Tim Wu, author, "The Age of Extraction" from Dec 29, 2025
The Ghost of Christmas Tech Anxieties - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Adam Allsuch Boardman from Dec 22, 2025
The first annual Creepy Awards from Dec 15, 2025
Noah McCormack from The Baffler: "We used to read things in this country" from Dec 8, 2025
Amateur radio is a superpower: Thomas Witherspoon from Dec 1, 2025
Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat Garofalo from Nov 24, 2025
How low can the tech oligarchs go? from Nov 17, 2025
Paul Mozur on the spread of data centers from Nov 10, 2025
Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data" from Nov 3, 2025
Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan Currell from Oct 27, 2025
Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite renaissance from Oct 20, 2025
The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane from Oct 13, 2025
AI and surveillance keep spreading from Oct 6, 2025
Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" from Sep 29, 2025
Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows" from Sep 22, 2025
Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood) from Sep 15, 2025
Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic from Sep 8, 2025
Cory Doctorow, author and journalist from Sep 1, 2025
Webb Keane, author, "Animals, Robots, Gods" from Aug 25, 2025
If/Then/Else - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Brendan Keogh from Aug 18, 2025
Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever" from Aug 11, 2025
Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth from Jul 28, 2025
Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism from Jul 14, 2025
Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis" from Aug 4, 2025
Daniel Solove, author, "On Privacy and Technology" from Jul 21, 2025
Burn Hollywood Burn - Will AI save the movies? Dan Morfitt fills in with guest John Ashbrook from Jul 7, 2025
Compulsory surveillance and other threats from Jun 30, 2025
Lori Emerson, author, "Other Networks" from Jun 23, 2025
Unveiling our new theme song by Kirk Pearson, and Big Tech alternatives from Jun 16, 2025
Matt Warwick fills in for Techtonic with Co-Host HurstBot from Jun 9, 2025
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, authors, "The AI Con" from Jun 2, 2025
David Greenwood, author, "The Cloud Intern" from May 26, 2025
Surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard on Facebook's spy glasses from May 19, 2025
Discussing "Careless People" by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from May 12, 2025
Sybil Derrible, author, "The Infrastructure Book" from May 5, 2025
Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies from Apr 28, 2025
The Defunding of Public Radio with Jesse Walker, Uri Berliner and Sue Matters from Apr 21, 2025
John Warner, author, "More Than Words" from Apr 14, 2025
Sue-Lin Wong and online scams from Apr 7, 2025
Emergency surveillance update from Mar 31, 2025
Liz Pelly, author, "Mood Machine" from Mar 24, 2025
Ben Snyder, author, "Spy Plane" from Mar 17, 2025
Marathon week 2 w/cohost Matt Warwick from Mar 10, 2025
Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman from Mar 3, 2025
AI and the future of war – with "Flash Wars" director Daniel Wunderer from Feb 24, 2025
Nick Couldry, author, "The Space of the World" from Feb 17, 2025
August Lamm: you don't need a smartphone from Feb 10, 2025
Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin from Feb 3, 2025
Welcome to the oligarchy: on Big Tech's government takeover from Jan 27, 2025
Kirk Pearson, author, "Electronic Music From Scratch" from Jan 20, 2025
Stone carvers Chris Pellettieri and Arissa Ramoutar from Jan 13, 2025
Ken Freedman and Mark Hurst listen to AI from Jan 6, 2025
Andrew Smith, author, "Devil in the Stack" from Dec 30, 2024
Guest host Don Fleming: Musical Tech: Naughty or Nice? from Dec 23, 2024
Our year of surveillance from Dec 16, 2024
Arvind Narayanan, author, "AI Snake Oil" from Dec 9, 2024
Nicole Kobie, author, "The Long History of the Future" from Dec 2, 2024
Technology we're thankful for, from listeners from Nov 25, 2024
Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk from Nov 18, 2024
Guest host Station Mgr Ken interviews David Suisman on music and the military from Nov 11, 2024
Dystopia update from Nov 4, 2024
Members of the Luddite Club from Oct 28, 2024
Christopher Brown, author, "A Natural History of Empty Lots" from Oct 21, 2024
Yaroslav Trofimov, author, "Our Enemies Will Vanish" from Oct 14, 2024
Silkie Carlo, director, Big Brother Watch from Oct 7, 2024
Tim Schwab, author, "The Bill Gates Problem" from Sep 30, 2024
What if no one wants AI? from Sep 23, 2024
Helen Phillips, author, "HUM" from Sep 16, 2024
Even more devices are spying on you from Sep 9, 2024
Carl Öhman, author, "The Afterlife of Data" from Sep 2, 2024
Guest host Alan on Rancho Mastatal from Aug 26, 2024
Paula Bialski, author, "Middle Tech" from Aug 19, 2024
Google antitrust decision party from Aug 12, 2024
Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use from Aug 5, 2024
Tech and the sandwich generation from Jul 29, 2024
Guest host Brian D. on disinformation with Kirsten Eddy and Alex Mahadevan from Jul 22, 2024
Generative AI and the "cesspool internet" – with Jason Koebler from Jul 15, 2024
How it started, how it's going: revisiting the warnings of the past from Jul 8, 2024
Carissa Véliz on digital ethics from Jul 1, 2024
Byron Tau, author, "Means of Control" from Jun 24, 2024
Listener questions from Jun 17, 2024
Mark Schatzker and "Food, Inc. 2" from Jun 10, 2024
Matt Warwick guest hosts Techtonic: What's the best robot? from Jun 3, 2024
We should all switch to Linux from May 27, 2024
What's eating Google? from May 20, 2024
Chris Gilliard on what AI is really for from May 13, 2024
"Data Grab" by Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry from May 6, 2024
Michael Shelley on AI-generated music from Apr 29, 2024