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Mark Hurst and WFMU
Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU
Technology
Society & Culture
Video Games
English
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.
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104
25 November 2025
Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat Garofalo from Nov 24, 2025
Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat GarofaloKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a- "Mark's intro"- "Interview with Pat Garofalo" [0:06:25]- "Mark's comments" [0:37:13]Momus - "The Enshittification of Everything" - Ballyhoo [0:55:48]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158415
18 November 2025
How low can the tech oligarchs go? from Nov 17, 2025
How low can the tech oligarchs go?Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a- "Mark's comments"Stereolab - "Space Moment" - Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center [0:53:24]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158295
12 November 2025
Paul Mozur on the spread of data centers from Nov 10, 2025
Paul Mozur on Big Tech data centers outside the USKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a- "Mark's comments"Kirk Pearson - "Modem of Home" - n/a [0:04:35]- "Interview with Paul Mozur" [0:04:46]Kirk Pearson - "Haptic Workshop" - n/a [0:26:35]- "Interview with Paul Mozur" [0:27:00]Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:51:57]- "Mark's comments" [0:52:04]Acidulant - "Taking Orders from...
04 November 2025
Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data" from Nov 3, 2025
Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data"Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic"- "Mark's intro"- "Interview with Aram Sinnreich" [0:03:41]- "Mark's comments" [0:45:35]Les Bibliothécaires (Various) - "High Score" [0:56:00]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157671
27 October 2025
Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan Currell from Oct 27, 2025
Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan CurrellKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic"- "Mark's intro"- "Interview with Dan Currell" [0:04:54]- "Mark's comments" [0:32:15]Joel Chapman - "From the Bedroom to the Bathroom" [via The Dannys] [0:55:48]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157597
20 October 2025
Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite renaissance from Oct 20, 2025
Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite renaissanceKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic"- "Interview with Amanda Hanna-McLeer"The Microbes - "Computer" [0:54:22]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157354
14 October 2025
The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane from Oct 13, 2025
The protest against smartphones, with Logan LaneKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic"- "Mark's intro"- "The protest" [0:07:15]- "Mark's comments" [0:37:04]Rude Mechanical Orchestra - "We Shall Overcome" [Image from Cat and Girl] [0:55:34]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157126
06 October 2025
AI and surveillance keep spreading from Oct 6, 2025
AI and surveillance keep spreadingKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic"- "Mark's comments"The Layoffs - "We're All In Formation" [0:55:06]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156829
30 September 2025
Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" from Sep 29, 2025
Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream"Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a- "Mark's intro"Kirk Pearson - "Modem of Home" - n/a [0:03:32]- "Interview with Megan Greenwell" [0:03:40]Kirk Pearson - "Haptic Workshop" - n/a [0:27:41]- "Interview with Megan Greenwell" [0:29:21]Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:47:00]- "Mark's...
23 September 2025
Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows" from Sep 22, 2025
Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present"Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic"- "Mark's intro"- "Interview with Glenn Adamson" [0:05:23]- "Mark's comments" [0:46:04]Hot 8 Brass Band - "Remember the Time" [0:55:03]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156259