Better Offline
Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for b...
Episodes (246)
CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
Jun 10, 2026
Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
Jun 5, 2026
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
Jun 3, 2026
Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
May 29, 2026
The AI Industry Is Losing
May 27, 2026
Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
May 22, 2026
AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus
May 20, 2026
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
May 15, 2026
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
May 13, 2026
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
May 6, 2026
Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie
May 1, 2026
Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
Apr 29, 2026
Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
Apr 24, 2026
Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
Apr 22, 2026
Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric
Apr 17, 2026
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
Apr 15, 2026
Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
Apr 9, 2026
The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky
Apr 7, 2026
Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail
Apr 3, 2026
Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?
Apr 1, 2026
Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You
Mar 27, 2026
NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus
Mar 25, 2026
Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech
Mar 20, 2026
Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor
Mar 18, 2026
Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History
Mar 13, 2026
Hater Season: Henry Zebrowski
Mar 11, 2026
Hater Season: Corey Quinn
Mar 4, 2026
Monologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking
Feb 27, 2026
Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz
Feb 25, 2026
Monologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies, Calm Down About Claude Code
Feb 20, 2026
Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan
Feb 18, 2026
Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming
Feb 13, 2026
Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting
Feb 11, 2026
Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?
Feb 6, 2026
Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard
Feb 4, 2026
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four
Jan 30, 2026
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three
Jan 29, 2026
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two
Jan 28, 2026
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One
Jan 27, 2026
Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff
Jan 26, 2026
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four
Jan 23, 2026
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three
Jan 22, 2026
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two
Jan 21, 2026
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One
Jan 20, 2026
Monologue: The Year Ahead
Jan 16, 2026
The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke
Jan 14, 2026
CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)
Jan 10, 2026
CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)
Jan 10, 2026
CES 2026: Part Eight (Friday)
Jan 10, 2026
CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday)
Jan 9, 2026