Unbuffered explores Internet access, digital equity, and local technology solutions, but with a broader lens on how tech shapes our lives, our communities, and our sense of agency. We make technology and technology makes us.
Unbuffered focuses on Internet access and connectivity technology – how does it encourage or discourage local self-reliance? With interviews and occasional live panel discussions, Unbuffered explores the ways technology interacts with our communities and our agency as citizens of an open society. It digs deep into how technologies actually work and how laws and policies interact with tech in the real world to shape our lives. This is ILSR’s longest-running show, originally called Community Broadband Bits.
In this episode of the podcast, Chris is joined again by Jade Piros De Carvalho and Sean Gonsalves for a conversation about Internet access, digital equity, and how we organize society.
They begin with an article by Stefan Schüller that compares the United States, Switzerland, and Germany and tries to draw lessons about how networks are built and governed.
The episode also introduces a new recurring segment, “What the Tech!?!,” where they cover Moon joy and data centers in space
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A conversation about how we organize networks—and who they serve
An important conversation around what happened when federal agents came to Minnesota—and how communities responded
A deep dive into one of the most successful municipal fiber networks in the country—and what other communities can learn from it
Blair Levin returns to reflect on the decisions that built today’s Internet—and why we may not be ready for what comes next with AI