Why Everything Stopped Working
by Ed Zitron
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jun 2026 on Behind the Bastards.
The general take
Robert Evans is working on a book called "Why Everything Stopped Working" that examines how technology caused everything to stop working and got us to our current situation, which he describes as pretty bleak. He presents it matter-of-factly as a chronicle of systemic failure rather than with particular optimism or pessimism about the topic itself.
About
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Who said what
Robert Evans💬 Mentioned
…discussing ed zitron's upcoming book about technology failures
“And you're working on a book right now, aren't you? Yes. The audience, the title of that book? It's called Why Everything Stopped Working and it's about how everything stopped working due to technology and how we got to where we are today, which kind of fucking sucks.”
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