ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

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ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

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Aug 6, 2023

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In this bumper Trip, the gang survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet. Nadia, Keir and Jem dredge up their early interactions with a primitive web and explain how the dream of free and open communication was displaced by closed networks of e-commerce and data harvesting. Following Keir’s recent Microdose episode with Malcolm […]

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Aug 6, 2023

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ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

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