The Complex Systems that Govern Our Lives w/ Tim Maughan
12 23 20
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The Complex Systems that Govern Our Lives
Tim Maughan
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Tim Maughan to discuss the exploitative infrastructures that make the modern world possible, how complex technological systems rob us of our power to control our collective destiny, and why predicting trends isn’t hard when you understand capitalism.
Guest
Tim Maughan is the author of “Infinite Detail” and “Ghost Hardware.” He’s also written for BBC Future, New Scientist, and Motherboard, and is writing a new column for OneZero. Follow Tim on Twitter as @timmaughan.
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Links
- Read about the trip Tim took with Unknown Fields on a container ship, at manufacturing sites in China, and near a toxic lake in Inner Mongolia that’s the product of mining rare-earth minerals.
- Read the first article in Tim’s new column, No One’s Driving.
- Kim Stanley Robinson says billionaire space visions are “just a fantasy of our culture right now.”
- Media mentioned by Tim: Judge Dredd comics, The Running Man, RoboCop, Rollerball, and Ad Astra.