The Year in Tech w/ Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, & Gita Jackson
12 29 22
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The Year in Tech
Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, Gita Jackson
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, and Gita Jackson to discuss the year in tech, including Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the biggest stories of the year, what they’ll be watching in 2023, and the worst person in tech of 2022.
Guest
Brian Merchant is the author of The One Device and Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Chris Gilliard is a Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council. Gita Jackson is a tech and culture journalist. You can follow them on Twitter at @bcmerchant, @hypervisible, and @xoxogossipgita.
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Links
- Paris wrote about Netflix and streaming services for Business Insider.
- Brian wrote about how 2022 was a disastrous year for the tech industry for The Atlantic.
- Chris and Kishonna Gray wrote about digital migration and what it means for Black users for Wired.
- Gita wrote a review of Dwarf Fortress’s Stream release.
- Part of the show discusses a Twitter policy that was briefly launched to restrict sharing of links from several other social media platforms. It was rescinded after the initial discussion.