Trailer: A Sense of Rebellion

A Podcast Series by Evgeny Morozov. Forget the military or Silicon
Valley: we owe our smart technologies - from toothbrushes to beds -
to a band of eccentric 1960s hippies. Hidden away in a
secretive, privately funded lab on Boston’s waterfront, these
visionaries developed intimate, personal technologies a decade
before Steve Jobs. But their rebellion was fraught with obstacles:
the military-industrial complex, corporate resistance, and the
founders’ larger-than-life personalities. As Silicon Valley adopted
their ideas, the lab's vision for more humane and diverse
technologies was twisted into something entirely different. A
decade in the making, this podcast unravels their captivating and
often tragic tale. It's all here: Cold War psychiatry, Maoism, LSD,
the Rockefellers, Scientology, CIA’s forays into extrasensory
perception, and even the advent of tech libertarianism.