Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that... more
On April 26 2024, the NHTSA, the government body responsible for keeping roads safe, found Tesla's Autopilot and Full-Self-Driving software... more
Hi Better Offline Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of our newest show Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) About the show:... more
Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable... more
In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads -... more
The growth-at-all-costs management consultant mindset has turned most of the modern internet into a painful and profitable social experiment -... more
In the last few weeks TikTok and other social networks have been flooded with memes about a chinese glycine manufacturer... more
Every major tech firm is betting billions of dollars that the generative AI revolution will change society - yet when... more
It’s been just under a year and a half since ChatGPT - an AI-powered chatbot launched by so-called non-profit OpenAI... more
Wikipedia, a non-profit encyclopedia that anybody can edit, remains one of the few trustworthy and reliable websites left online. Ed... more
The media industry has laid off over 30,000 people in the last three years as a result of an executive... more