This is going to be so good.

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Dans toutes vos librairies préférées et sur notre site, retrouvez « Les Santiago Boys • Des ingénieurs utopistes face aux big tech et aux agences d’espionnage » de Evgeny Morozov ! 💻💾⌨️🖥️

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Great cover for the Canadian edition

🔜💻 À paraître le 19 avril 2024 : l’histoire des Santiago Boys, de jeunes ingénieurs qui ont tenté de construire leur propre Internet socialiste à la demande de Salvador Allende au Chili 🇨🇱

'Tres ideas:
1. Por qué la tecnología ha desaparecido de la agenda de las fuerzas progresistas
2. Ejemplos históricos del sur global que ilustran cómo politizar la tecnología
3. Aprender de estos ejemplos no es suficiente' Evgeny Morozov #EHdigitala mrafundazioa.eus/es/articulos/e…

📺 À paraître le 19 avril : « Les Santiago Boys • Des ingénieurs utopistes face aux big techs et aux agences d’espionnage » de Evgeny Morozov Evgeny Morozov

Speaking in Brussels and Paris next week (plus Bilbao on Friday)

The first episode of The Santiago Boys - remade in French - is up, courtesy of Europod. New episodes every week. Check it out here europod.eu/podcast/les-sa…

🧨The epic story begins!

1️⃣In the first episode of The Santiago Boys, we set the scene for our story. We discover the context - Chile in the 1970s, during the Cold War - and the key players. After three successive defeats, Salvador Allende became President of Chile.

Speaking in Bilbao next Friday, March 15th

🌟 'A dizzying ride' for the Financial Times, 'an incredible journey' for Le Monde, 'as gripping as a Netflix thriller' according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...Les Santiago Boys, French remake of the acclaimed podcast of Evgeny Morozov is now online!

This is what years of research and hundreds of interviews look like in outline form. This new podcast will be great!

Excited that this is out in May in France (as a book). The French version of the podcast is out later this month.

You have to admire how as early as 1952 (!) Warren McCulloch, the father of neural networks, casually admits that computers a) can say nothing about the future b) will always remain noise machines c) 'can only corrupt revelation.'

The story of the Manhattan Project but as dark comedy could be quite something

Amidst all that bomb-building, John von Neumann somehow found time for Meccano toys