(2023-09-09) The Santiago Boys A Podcast Series By Evgeny Morozov

The Santiago Boys — a podcast series by Evgeny Morozov. Cybersyn is an oft-referred to hypothetical in the socialist calculation debate

earlier this summer the story got a new podcast serial treatment by noted technology critic Evgeny Morozov. The series is called The Santiago Boys, and it is excellent.

He has writing about Cybersyn since at least 2014

Other than his sharp skills of critique and ability to make sense of swathes of sources, he added a new skill for the podcast: scriptwriting. In a TMK interview Evgeny talks about how he stopped halfway through through project to spend four months reading Hollywood writing bibles

more importantly it details the context surrounding the coup, illustrating how tech and geopolitical power are connected, how big corporation influence governments, and how whole countries can become dependent on corporations. Maybe more importantly, it shows how countries can fight back.