The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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How I became a tech critic
Paris Marx’s journey from tech optimist to committed Luddite
Roundup: Apple Car is (finally) dead
Read to the end for a more evidence of an access journalist’s close ties to tech CEOs
Kara Swisher’s Reality Distortion Field
In “Burn Book,” the longtime tech journalist tries to rewrite her story for the post-techlash era
Roundup: Some tidbits about New Zealand
Read to the end for OpenAI saying the quiet part out loud
How artists are fighting generative AI
An interview with Karla Ortiz on how AI image generators are upending the careers of artists
Roundup: Peter Thiel wants a new frontier
Read to the end for a bad NBA AI reveal
Microsoft’s Xbox dilemma
A new strategy is angering fans as Xbox loses the console war and Game Pass fails to take off
The high cost of Uber’s small profit
Workers and customers get squeezed so investors can make off like bandits