People walk past an Apple store in Lower Manhattan on June 25, 2026 after Apple raised prices on the iPad and MacBook, blaming rising costs for memory and storage chips.
(Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Public anger toward AI continues to grow as the data center boom continues to hit people’s pockets. Chris Person joins Paris Marx to discuss the soaring costs of consumer electronics, including why prices aren’t expected to drop anytime soon and how people can experiment with homemade cyberpunk technology.
Chris Person is co-founder of Consequences and made Highlight Reel.
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Paris Marx Paris Marx is a technology critic and host of Technology will not save us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation.
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