For Tech’s Sake

Elaine Burke & Kelly Earley

Panopticontent

OCT 15, 202652 MIN

Description

The modern-day panopticon is not a circular prison with a central guard tower, it’s a network of connected devices capturing and tracking our every waking minute and collecting copious amounts of data to share with the highest bidders – or the most fascistic authorities. In this episode, Kelly and Elaine weigh up the psychological effects of a culture where you can never dance like no one is watching. *** Good things we recommend *** >> Slow down and watch the world go by (literally) with Ambient Earth >> Read Kelly’s piece on The Journal all about this topic >> And Patrick Freyne’s article on the normalisation of location tracking among family and friends >> Listen back to our episode where we asked a search technologies expert if phones are really listening to you (even though we are not even sure any more) >> And one of our very earliest episodes, which looked at tech-facilitated abuse *** More from us *** Kelly’s Substack: kellysrubbish.substack.com FTS blog: for-techs-sake.ghost.io FTS TikTok: fortechssakepod FTS Instagram: fortechssakepod FTS Bluesky: fortechssakepod.bsky.social FTS UpScrolled: fortechssakepod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.