Not That Guy

Techgnosis, by Erik Davis, was first published back in 1998, before the dot com crash, the presidential election fiasco of the year 2000, 9/11, the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the financial crisis of 2008 and the protracted recession and jobless recovery. Erik joins KMO for a conversation about the continuity and evolution of their worldviews from 1998 to the present. In 1997, Wired magazine published their now famous headline story, The Long Boom, which argued that good times were here to stay, and not just for the elites. KMO reads from it and makes some 20/20 hindsight observations about the insular, self-serving, techno-utopian mindset that produced it.

 

Music by Brodie Kinder.