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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Ben Tarnoff untangles the histories and complex architectures of the modern internet
Description: Ben Tarnoff is the author of A Counterfeiter’s Paradise and The Bohemians. He’s the co-founder of Logic magazine. His writing has appeared in a lot of different places, mostly left publications like The Guardian and Jacobin. His most recent piece of writing, and the focus of this conversation, is a book called Internet for the People. It’s an incredibly engaging study of how the modern internet came to be, why it's fundamentally broken, and what steps we can take to make it less broken.
I asked Ben about the approach he took to writing Internet for the People...