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AI hype is everywhere today – from the workplace to popular culture to healthcare and beyond. We need some way to see through the hype and push back on it. Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna explain how in their new book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.” Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”

Brooklyn-based author Helen Phillips discusses her novel HUM. A city much like New York, in the near future, is bristling with surveillance cameras, addictive devices, ambient AI, and accelerating climate change. The novel tells how a mother, father, and their two kids navigate this landscape, encountering situations that sound all too familiar in our real-life dystopia.Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”

Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”

Today’s internet may be dominated by exploitative Big Tech sludge factories, but it doesn’t have to be that way in the future. Lori Emerson has compiled a list of alternative networks, from the ancient past to the present day, in her book “Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook.” Stories about smoke signals, ESP, and a “space donut” show that there are many possibilities for us to explore.
• Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, by Lori Emerson
• loriemerson.net
Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”