A Sense of Rebellion
A Podcast Series by Evgeny Morozov. Forget the military or Silicon Valley: we owe our smart technologies - from toothbrushes to beds - to a band of eccentric 1960s hippies. Hidden away in a secretive, privately funded lab on Boston’s waterfront, these visionaries developed intimate, personal technologies a decade before Steve Jobs. But their rebellion was fraught with obstacles: the military-industrial complex, corporate resistance, and the founders’ larger-than-life personalities. As Silicon Valley adopted their ideas, the lab's vision for more humane and diverse technologies was twisted into something entirely different. A decade in the making, this podcast unravels their captivating and often tragic tale. It's all here: Cold War psychiatry, Maoism, LSD, the Rockefellers, Scientology, CIA’s forays into extrasensory perception, and even the advent of tech libertarianism.
Very cool
Sep 8
I just finished kinzer’s book on Gottlieb. It really interesting listening to this, because while only transitively correlated. Its does an excellent job adding texture and contours to the research exploration happening in this era. Its easy to see that so many of the brightest minds all being on a spun out wave length at the same time presenting cascading unintended variables for the reasarcher. And in the case of this pod i cant help but wonder given the bio’s of those involved as well as the way rhe interpersonal dynamics. Were the characters in this pod leading the reaserch actually the lab rats?
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Sep 4
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- CreatorEvgeny Morozov
- Years Active2K
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