{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.techfreedom.org%2Fepisodes%2F419-do-tech-optimists-have-a-party-dfVaWJfj","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"419: Do Tech Optimists Have a Party?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/50bb570b-2d48-4cba-8eac-4d8a2c843965/ee899840-5db7-439a-ac21-36a486893a1f/tpp-20v3.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/84aa1424-ed48-4610-8054-e116fceec625\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"419: Do Tech Optimists Have a Party?\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Adam Kovacevich (Chamber of Progress) discusses the populist / anti-tech turn in politics, and what can be done about it.\n\nTopics include:\n\n- How did we get here?\n- Tech optimists: There are dozens of us!\n- Beware ThE gROupS\n- If there’s a crisis, maybe act like it?\n- Duct tape and bubble gum\n- The great relearning\n- We’re so doomed\n- We’re so not doomed\n\nLinks:\n\nTech Policy Podcast 403: The Constitutional Crisis (https://tinyurl.com/jxm6sene)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 388: The Abundance Agenda (https://tinyurl.com/6cmmaz2k)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 355: Conservative Futurism (https://tinyurl.com/mspwp85t)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 301: The Realignment (https://tinyurl.com/3ry5m57u)"}