Kat Zhang

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68 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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It's Been a Minute · Will physical media take us back to the future? · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

It's not like proprietary, you know, black box situation.

Yeah.

So I think something that we're learning is like we don't hate work and we don't hate learning.

We just hate being alienated from our labor to use a kind of like Marxist phrase.

Like we hate like feeling like we've contributed so much of ourselves to like jobs that we don't believe in, like work.

because of this like current stage of social media where it's like feeding you things as opposed to you even like typing into a search bar or, you know, doing a more active research in the past or visiting personal blogs, like people have forgotten that like the internet

Is a resource and a place where you can actually learn a whole bunch of stuff.

And so I think that's where Cyberdex came in, where it's like trying to reclaim some of the energy and optimism of like the 90s and 2000s.

It was about like having a personal relationship to technology, about the wonder of exploration, about imagining the future.

Now it feels like these tech oligarchs are colonizing our future and they're saying the future looks gray, minimalist, AI run.

unimaginative and the only narrative of the future is like, we'll make things more, quote unquote, like efficient for you at the expense of the environment or whatever else it is.

There is no actually imagination of like, what if we

made our society better and we afforded people more leisure time so that they can pursue more rigorous projects or have the mental capacity to view things that are not TikTok soundbites or something.

What has been

revelatory about witnessing the cybertech trend and exploring physical media for me is just the way that it changes my relationship to my environment.

And I start to see things based on their creative potential.

And it is also like changed my relationship to the outdoors where now I'm just like mentally noting in my head, like, you know, that's the Greenpoint library where they have a bunch of tools and that's where I can rent tools or like here's a record store or like maybe I could ask someone for help.

And so I've started to see to be kind of corny about it, like to see the world as my Internet.

I have the tools to build a cyberdeck, but I'm not in a rush.

I'm more interested in actually learning about what communities could help me in the hypothetical situation I wanted to make one or something different.

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