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572 - Ben Recht, author, "The Irrational Decision" from Jun 1, 2026

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.

572 - Ben Recht, author, "The Irrational Decision" from Jun 1, 2026

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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.

Episodes

Mon, 01 Jun 2026

Mon, 25 May 2026

Mon, 18 May 2026

Mon, 04 May 2026

Mon, 27 Apr 2026

Mon, 20 Apr 2026

Mon, 13 Apr 2026

Mon, 06 Apr 2026

Tue, 31 Mar 2026

Mon, 23 Mar 2026

Mon, 16 Mar 2026

Mon, 09 Mar 2026

Mon, 02 Mar 2026

Mon, 23 Feb 2026

Mon, 16 Feb 2026

Tue, 10 Feb 2026

Mon, 02 Feb 2026

Mon, 30 Jun 2025

Mon, 26 Jan 2026

Mon, 05 Jan 2026

Mon, 29 Sep 2025

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

Mon, 19 Jan 2026

Mon, 12 Jan 2026

Sat, 09 Aug 2025

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

Mon, 29 Dec 2025

Mon, 22 Dec 2025

Mon, 15 Dec 2025

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

Mon, 08 Dec 2025

Tue, 02 Dec 2025

Mon, 24 Nov 2025

Mon, 17 Nov 2025

Wed, 12 Nov 2025

Mon, 03 Nov 2025

Mon, 27 Oct 2025

Mon, 20 Oct 2025

Mon, 13 Oct 2025

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

Mon, 06 Oct 2025

Mon, 22 Sep 2025

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU

Episodes

Ben Recht, author, "The Irrational Decision" from Jun 1, 2026

"Muskism" authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff from May 25, 2026

When is it OK to use AI? from May 18, 2026

Julie Scelfo, founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA) from May 4, 2026

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, author, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You" from Apr 27, 2026

Starlink and Kessler Syndrome, feat. astronomer Samantha Lawler from Apr 20, 2026

Cindy Cohn, author, "Privacy's Defender" from Apr 13, 2026

Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn, authors, "Move Slow and Upgrade" from Apr 6, 2026

Dystopia update: good news edition from Mar 30, 2026

Janet Vertesi, founder of the Opt Out Project from Mar 23, 2026

A visit to Repair Cafe El Barrio from Mar 16, 2026

Marathon week 2 w/cohost Jesse Jarnow from Mar 9, 2026

Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman from Mar 2, 2026

Celebrating 400 episodes of Techtonic from Feb 23, 2026

Chris Gilliard on Amazon’s admission that Ring spies on us from Feb 16, 2026

Peter Dear ("The World As We Know It") and how we interpret AI from Feb 9, 2026

AI is spreading where it doesn't belong from Feb 2, 2026

Compulsory surveillance and other threats from Jun 30, 2025

Peter Schmidt on the book "Attensity" by the Friends of Attention from Jan 26, 2026

Ken Freedman and Mark discuss the year ahead from Jan 5, 2026

Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream" from Sep 29, 2025

John Warner, author, "More Than Words" from Apr 14, 2025

Stone carvers Chris Pellettieri and Arissa Ramoutar from Jan 13, 2025

Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use from Aug 5, 2024

Paul Bradley Carr, author, "The Confessions" from Jan 19, 2026

Lora Kolodny from CNBC on Grok's sexualized images from Jan 12, 2026

Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth from Jul 28, 2025

Tim Schwab, author, "The Bill Gates Problem" from Sep 30, 2024

Tim Wu, author, "The Age of Extraction" from Dec 29, 2025

The Ghost of Christmas Tech Anxieties - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Adam Allsuch Boardman from Dec 22, 2025

The first annual Creepy Awards from Dec 15, 2025

Mark Schatzker and "Food, Inc. 2" from Jun 10, 2024

Matt Warwick guest hosts Techtonic: What's the best robot? from Jun 3, 2024

Noah McCormack from The Baffler: "We used to read things in this country" from Dec 8, 2025

Amateur radio is a superpower: Thomas Witherspoon from Dec 1, 2025

Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat Garofalo from Nov 24, 2025

How low can the tech oligarchs go? from Nov 17, 2025

Paul Mozur on the spread of data centers from Nov 10, 2025

Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data" from Nov 3, 2025

Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan Currell from Oct 27, 2025

Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite renaissance from Oct 20, 2025

The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane from Oct 13, 2025

How it started, how it's going: revisiting the warnings of the past from Jul 8, 2024

AI and surveillance keep spreading from Oct 6, 2025

Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows" from Sep 22, 2025

Nick Couldry, author, "The Space of the World" from Feb 17, 2025

Ken Freedman and Mark Hurst listen to AI from Jan 6, 2025

Nicole Kobie, author, "The Long History of the Future" from Dec 2, 2024

Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk from Nov 18, 2024

Guest host Station Mgr Ken interviews David Suisman on music and the military from Nov 11, 2024

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