The Ned Ludd Radio Hour Podcast
1) Unsubscribe! (but not to this podcast, please)
Julio Vincent Gambuto is a New York based author and marketing professional. His new book is Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a Relentless World. As yo...Show More
2) The Death of the Authors
Is the age of literacy – the primacy of the written word – ending? Put another way, are we entering a new world where frayed attention spans, technological enshittification and political polarisation ...Show More
3) Who's Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
Much of how we see the world is governed by a sense of fear. It’s what keeps me driving within the legal limits. Fear of a crash and fear of the reprisals for speeding. Since AI became a big cause cel...Show More
4) Militant Luddism: do we need to smash up the machines?
When I started this podcast, I was feeling a bit gloomy about the way that technology was heading, but I wasn’t gripped by full-on panic. Yet here we are, a year or so later, and I feel like I’ve...Show More
5) Do We Need to End Our Subscription Addiction?
This week on the Ned Ludd Radio Hour a piece on 'subscription addiction' and spreadflation. Are consumers being screwed over by the rise and rise of different subscriptions to media and entertainment ...Show More
6) Luigi Mangione and the Gray Tribe
A couple of weeks ago, Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old American, allegedly shot Brian Thompson, the CEO of a major health insurer in the US. Suddenly, a lot of the ideas I’d be gently noodling with on t...Show More
7) The Case for Reading: do we need to rediscover a love of books?
Here in the UK we have an estimated adult literacy rate of 99%, which the US is at 86%. Amongst UN member states, the average is 86.7%. Adult literacy has been one of the great triumphs of the 20th ce...Show More
8) The Fall of the House of Apple: has the Silicon Valley giant become deeply uncool?
it’s time to talk about Apple. Apple that big, sleek, glossy company with a current market cap of some $3.3 trillion dollars. The same Apple with whose products you are, quite plausibly, listening to ...Show More
The Fall of the House of Apple: has the Silicon Valley giant become deeply uncool?
26:10 | Jun 15th, 2024
9) The Uncertainty Paradox
The impact that technology has on psychology is a new field of research, and one where the multi-decade studies required to give definitive answers are still many years away. One of the other fields b...Show More
10) A Brief History of (predominantly Artificial) Intelligence
Today, we're speaking to Kester Brewin, an author who works for the delightfully named Institute for the Future of Work here in London. He’s just about to release a new book called God-like: a 500 yea...Show More