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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.”

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.”

Writer Duncan Moench argues that society today is dominated by “soylent screens,” the addictive digital devices that treat humans as a resource to be exploited. There is an alternative, though, an old but newly relevant economic system called “producerism.”Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”

Threats to our privacy are everywhere and the law isn’t keeping up. And courts often favor corporations over citizens who have been harmed. Daniel Solove, the most-cited law professor on privacy and technology, joins Mark to discuss his new book “On Privacy and Technology.” Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”

Thanks to Big Tech, our dystopian moment grows darker by the day. Our near future will be defined, in part, by a three-headed hydra. Mark Hurst examines the emerging crises of money, water, and truth.Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly one-hour FM radio show on Jersey City-based WFMU, covering “our shift to a digital future.”

Novelist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park returns to Techtonic to discuss his new short story collection, “An Oral History of Atlantis.” Imaginative scenarios abound – from a mythical island, to life on the internet in the 1990s, to a story entirely about passwords and security questions.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.”