"The Tech World That May Have Been"

July 27, 2023 2:16 AM

"The Santiago Boys launched this weekend! This nine-part podcast, written and presented by Evgeny Morozov (pre•vi•ously, tells the wild tale of how Salvador Allende's engineers and a British management consultant dared challenge corporations and spy agencies – and almost won."

Context good to know: there were legit questions if Morozov was plagiarizing some of his earlier writings on Chile - nice to see some original work from him on the topic.

posted by kmt (5 comments total)

I love me some Project Cybersyn but hate me some podcasts. I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes.

(I still want one of those chairs. Maybe I'll mock one up in VR. Now there's a game idea...)
posted by phooky at 6:43 AM on July 27, 2023 [1 favorite]

You could do a 3D take on the old Hidden Agenda game.
posted by johngoren at 7:25 AM on July 27, 2023 [1 favorite]

At a glance, I suspect we're going to have the same conversations about Mozorov wandering the "what is plagiarism really" tightrope again, but this time it will be about older podcasts on the topic. This is well covered ground in text and podcast form.
posted by mhoye at 9:02 AM on July 27, 2023 [1 favorite]

This looks very much like my kind of thing. Thanks for the rec!
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:06 AM on July 27, 2023

I still want one of those chairs. Maybe I'll mock one up in VR.

You can grab a kind of simple CC licensed model of the opsroom to play with here.
posted by St. Sorryass at 7:52 AM on July 29, 2023