We cannot build a better future unless we can envision it. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet returns with another season full of inspiring conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people around who are thinking about how to make the internet – and the world – a better place for all of us. Co-hosts Executive Director Cindy Cohn and Activism Director Jason Kelley will speak with people like journalist Kashmir Hill, Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs Audrey Tang, former White House advisor Tim Wu, digital artist Dr. Nettrice Gaskins and actor and filmmaker Alex Winter, among others. It seems like everywhere we turn we see dystopian stories about technology’s impact on our lives and our futures — from tracking-based surveillance capitalism to street level government surveillance to the dominance of a few large platforms choking innovation to the growing pressure by authoritarian governments to control what we see and say — the landscape can feel bleak. Exposing and articulating these problems is important, but so is envisioning and then building a better future. That’s where our podcast comes in. EFF's How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, we explore creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges.
We cannot build a better future unless we can envision it. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet returns with another season full of inspiring conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people around who are thinking about how to make the internet – and the world – a better place for all of us. Co-hosts Executive Director Cindy Cohn and Activism Director Jason Kelley will speak with people like journalist Kashmir Hill, Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs Audrey Tang, former White House advisor Tim Wu, digital artist Dr. Nettrice Gaskins and actor and filmmaker Alex Winter, among others.
It seems like everywhere we turn we see dystopian stories about technology’s impact on our lives and our futures — from tracking-based surveillance capitalism to street level government surveillance to the dominance of a few large platforms choking innovation to the growing pressure by authoritarian governments to control what we see and say — the landscape can feel bleak. Exposing and articulating these problems is important, but so is envisioning and then building a better future. That’s where our podcast comes in.
EFF's How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, we explore creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges.
GUEST ALEX WINTER
People keep trying to separate the Internet from any other social community or just society, period. And I think that's the problem is I don't think we can afford to separate those things We have to understand that it's part of society, which means we have to make a better internet.
CO-HOST CINDY COHN
So what could the world look like if we get things right?
GUEST TIM WU
It looks like a world in which economic power surrounding the internet is very much more distributed in a way that feels sustainable and where the sort of riches of the Internet are more broadly shared.
GUEST GAY GORDON-BYRNE
You will be able to buy things that you can fix, or have somebody fix them for you. And one of the consequences is that you will see more repair shops back in your town.
CO-HOST CINDY COHN
I'm Cindy Cohn - executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
CO-HOST JASON KELLEY
And I'm Jason Kelley - EFF's Activism Director. Together, we host How to Fix the Internet.
CO-HOST CINDY COHN
Our new season starts very soon, and we are excited to bring you more conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people around. People who are thinking about how to make the internet – and the world – a better place for all of us.
CO-HOST JASON KELLEY
Like filmmaker Alex Winter, and artist Nettrice Gaskins, former White House advisor Tim Wu, and Taiwanese hacker and Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang.
GUEST AUDREY TANG
When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning. When we see user experience, let's make it about human experience. And whenever we hear that a singularity is near, let us always remember the plurality is here.
CO-HOST CINDY COHN
How to Fix the Internet season 5. Follow us in your favorite podcasting app so you don't miss an episode.
GUEST AUDREY TANG
Live long and prosper.