LANDLORDS OF THE INTERNET: Paris Marx + Daniel Greene in Conversation

STRATLab presents:

Who owns the cloud, and who pays the price? In this conversation, Paris Marx (Tech Won’t Save Us) and Daniel Greene (The Promise of Access) dig into the hidden infrastructure of data centers, tracing how real estate empires, labor politics, and technological hype shape the digital economy. Together they’ll explore what it means when the internet has landlords—and how we might imagine a different future.

WHERE: Iribe 1116, University of Maryland, College Park

WHEN: Friday September 19th, 4-6PM

Paris Marx is a tech critic, author of Road to Nowhere, and host of the podcasts Tech Won’t Save Us and System Crash. His work has appeared in Time, Wired, and MIT Technology Review and been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Daniel Greene is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information and Vice President of United Academics of Maryland. He is the author of The Promise of Access (MIT Press), which won the McGannon Book Award for its analysis of technology, inequality, and the politics of “learn to code.” His current project examines how organizations use artifacts like performance reviews and job applications to enforce belonging, and how workers resist them.

M. R. Sauter (moderator) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information and the author of The Coming Swarm. Their research examines the history and philosophy of technology, with projects on venture capital, the innovation economy, and the politics of AI.