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Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU

by Mark Hurst and WFMU


A show from WFMU about our shift to a digital future. Mark Hurst interviews creators and thinkers about technology, community, videogames, and whatever else is next.

100 episodes
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1
Marathon week 2 w/cohost Jesse Jarnow from Mar 9, 2026
0:00 Mar 9, 2026
2
Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman from Mar 2, 2026
0:00 Mar 3, 2026
3
Celebrating 400 episodes of Techtonic from Feb 23, 2026
0:00 Feb 24, 2026
4
Chris Gilliard on Amazon’s admission that Ring spies on us from Feb 16, 2026
0:00 Feb 17, 2026
5
Peter Dear ("The World As We Know It") and how we interpret AI from Feb 9, 2026
0:00 Feb 10, 2026
6
AI is spreading where it doesn't belong from Feb 2, 2026
0:00 Feb 3, 2026
7
Peter Schmidt on the book "Attensity" by the Friends of Attention from Jan 26, 2026
0:00 Jan 27, 2026
8
Paul Bradley Carr, author, "The Confessions" from Jan 19, 2026
0:00 Jan 20, 2026
9
Lora Kolodny from CNBC on Grok's sexualized images from Jan 12, 2026
0:00 Jan 13, 2026
10
Ken Freedman and Mark discuss the year ahead from Jan 5, 2026
0:00 Jan 6, 2026
11
Tim Wu, author, "The Age of Extraction" from Dec 29, 2025
0:00 Dec 30, 2025
12
The Ghost of Christmas Tech Anxieties - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Adam Allsuch Boardman from Dec 22, 2025
0:00 Dec 23, 2025
13
The first annual Creepy Awards from Dec 15, 2025
0:00 Dec 16, 2025
14
Noah McCormack from The Baffler: "We used to read things in this country" from Dec 8, 2025
0:00 Dec 9, 2025
15
Amateur radio is a superpower: Thomas Witherspoon from Dec 1, 2025
0:00 Dec 2, 2025
16
Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat Garofalo from Nov 24, 2025
0:00 Nov 25, 2025
17
How low can the tech oligarchs go? from Nov 17, 2025
0:00 Nov 18, 2025
18
Paul Mozur on the spread of data centers from Nov 10, 2025
0:00 Nov 12, 2025
19
Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data" from Nov 3, 2025
0:00 Nov 4, 2025
20
Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan Currell from Oct 27, 2025
0:00 Oct 27, 2025
21
Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite renaissance from Oct 20, 2025
0:00 Oct 20, 2025
22
The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane from Oct 13, 2025
0:00 Oct 14, 2025
23
AI and surveillance keep spreading from Oct 6, 2025
0:00 Oct 6, 2025
24
Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" from Sep 29, 2025
0:00 Sep 30, 2025
25
Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows" from Sep 22, 2025
0:00 Sep 23, 2025
26
Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood) from Sep 15, 2025
0:00 Sep 15, 2025
27
Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic from Sep 8, 2025
0:00 Sep 8, 2025
28
Cory Doctorow, author and journalist from Sep 1, 2025
0:00 Sep 1, 2025
29
Webb Keane, author, "Animals, Robots, Gods" from Aug 25, 2025
0:00 Aug 27, 2025
30
If/Then/Else - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Brendan Keogh from Aug 18, 2025
0:00 Aug 18, 2025
31
Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever" from Aug 11, 2025
0:00 Aug 11, 2025
32
Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth from Jul 28, 2025
0:00 Aug 10, 2025
33
Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism from Jul 14, 2025
0:00 Aug 10, 2025
34
Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis" from Aug 4, 2025
0:00 Aug 9, 2025
35
Daniel Solove, author, "On Privacy and Technology" from Jul 21, 2025
0:00 Jul 21, 2025
36
Burn Hollywood Burn - Will AI save the movies? Dan Morfitt fills in with guest John Ashbrook from Jul 7, 2025
0:00 Jul 7, 2025
37
Compulsory surveillance and other threats from Jun 30, 2025
0:00 Jun 30, 2025
38
Lori Emerson, author, "Other Networks" from Jun 23, 2025
0:00 Jun 23, 2025
39
Unveiling our new theme song by Kirk Pearson, and Big Tech alternatives from Jun 16, 2025
0:00 Jun 16, 2025
40
Matt Warwick fills in for Techtonic with Co-Host HurstBot from Jun 9, 2025
0:00 Jun 9, 2025
41
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, authors, "The AI Con" from Jun 2, 2025
0:00 Jun 3, 2025
42
David Greenwood, author, "The Cloud Intern" from May 26, 2025
0:00 May 26, 2025
43
Surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard on Facebook's spy glasses from May 19, 2025
0:00 May 20, 2025
44
Discussing "Careless People" by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from May 12, 2025
0:00 May 13, 2025
45
Sybil Derrible, author, "The Infrastructure Book" from May 5, 2025
0:00 May 5, 2025
46
Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies from Apr 28, 2025
0:00 Apr 29, 2025
47
The Defunding of Public Radio with Jesse Walker, Uri Berliner and Sue Matters from Apr 21, 2025
0:00 Apr 21, 2025
48
John Warner, author, "More Than Words" from Apr 14, 2025
0:00 Apr 14, 2025
49
Sue-Lin Wong and online scams from Apr 7, 2025
0:00 Apr 7, 2025
50
Emergency surveillance update from Mar 31, 2025
0:00 Apr 1, 2025
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