Progress Reimagined
Progress Reimagined explores innovative ideas, technologies, and emerging economic models that put humanity and our planet first. The show challenges assumptions to reshape how we think about progress and prosperity, through conversations with people making a real impact. New episodes every other week.
Progress Reimagined
Blind Faith in Tech Is Over. What Comes Next?
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We trusted the people in the spotlight to have all the answers. We handed them our data, our attention, our cities, our public squares — and assumed the market would sort out whatever followed. It didn't.
This episode asks what blind faith in technology actually cost us — and what it would take to build something better. From a WeWork launch party in Tokyo to the Rohingya crisis. From an Uber driver in Istanbul with no seat at the table, to the Vatican calling for AI to be disarmed. From Silicon Valley's 278 billion dollar tax gap to Europe's first serious push for digital sovereignty.
We dive into the story of extreme capitalism without oversight, and the people already voting with their feet.
In this episode:
- The WeWork warehouse and the end of the tech god era
- How social media went from the Arab Spring to genocide in Myanmar
- The Uber driver generating value for a platform worth hundreds of billions
- Silicon Valley's 278 billion dollar tax gap
- Why people are already voting with their feet
- Alternatives already being built — Mastodon, Proton, and beyond
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