Tech giants like Google and Facebook have conquered — some would say killed — the internet. Elon Musk used his platform to help elect Trump, and Silicon Valley elites want to gut the public sector. OpenAI and Microsoft aim to wipe away millions of jobs. Uber is driving down wages. Apple is impenetrable. Amazon is inescapable. All this high tech, and our quality of life is getting lower. The system has crashed.
So, System Crash: a weekly tech news show willing to tell the hard truths about how tech — and the titans who own and operate it — is really transforming the world. Co-hosts Paris Marx and Brian Merchant dissect the stories that matter, break news of their own, offer expert commentary, and interview journalists, whistleblowers, authors, and tech workers and ordinary people fighting back.
Brian Merchant is a veteran tech journalist, former LA Times columnist, and nationally bestselling author of books like Blood in the Machine and The One Device. He writes a weekly newsletter about tech, labor, AI, and power.
Paris Marx is a tech critic, author, and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. His work has been by publications around the world and translated into over a dozen languages. His first book Road to Nowhere dug into the tech industry’s failed plans to revolutionize transportation and he’s working on a new book about data centers. He speaks internationally about the politics of tech.