Podcast #36: Jerry Mander

Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.

By Mo Lotman | January 5, 2021 | Advertising, Community, Culture, Economics, Environment, Media, Podcasts, Society | Capitalism, Coronavirus, Environment, Exploitation, Globalism, Grand Canyon, Image, Indigenous Rights, Internet, Media, Native Americans, Nature, Power, Propaganda, Television, The Sierra Club

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Book Review: Darkness By Design

Walter Mattli reveals the opaque world of high-speed trading, and its danger to finance and the regulatory power of governments.

By Howard Wetzel | April 1, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, Philosophy, Society | Capitalism, Dark Pools, Financial Markets, Flash Boys, Glass-Steagall, Globalism, Governance, High-Frequency Trading, High-Speed Trading, Obfuscation, Profit, Regulation, Securities, Securities Exchanges, Wall Street, Walter Mattli

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A River Divides Two Tanzanias

In a southern Tanzanian village, a river reveals a technological divide with cultural implications for the whole country.

By Daniel Bellerose | May 9, 2018 | Community, Culture, Family, Identity, Society | Africa, Celebrity, Community, Culture, Development, Disconnection, Elders, Foreign Aid, Globalism, Internet, Loneliness, Mbeya, Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Television, Village Life

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