Better Offline

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TECHNOLOGIES

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

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BANDE-ANNONCE

Introducing: Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s growing influence over society, and how startups, venture capitalists and big tech firms are looking to change the future - for better or for worse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2024-02-14

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96 notes

Spot on!

2025-06-19

smallfriex

Spot on!
Coherent, unrelenting, and profoundly human.

2025-05-09

No one QA'd this field

To quote the title of another review, “essential technoskepticism” is exactly what this podcast offers. Holds these rent-seekers to account, while still being hopeful about how technology can enrich the lives of real people like us.
Essential technoscepticism

2025-03-16

Francis_FF

Ed is fighting the good fight: pushing an industry towards humanism. As a software engineer, I need to be reminded that the growth objective needs to be questioned and reigned in.
CW: yt guy yelling

2025-03-28

TheLMGM

Such important reporting & analysis, BUT the “angry yt guy yelling into a microphone” schtick sounds like an abusive boyfriend / manosphere fash dude just before he turns to violence.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Chaîne

Cool Zone Media
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Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
Années d’activité

2024 - 2026
Épisodes

233
Classement

Contenu explicite
Copyright

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iHeartMedia + Entertainment, Inc