The Road to Nowhere w/ Paris Marx
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Why do Silicon Valley’s promises about the future of transportation never seem to work out?
Paris Marx, author of The Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us dives into the reality underpinning the promises made by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. Why can’t electric vehicles address the problems created by the automobile industry? To push back against Silicon Valley’s promises, Marx helps us imagine a more accessible and equitable transportation future.
About Paris Marx:
Paris Marx is a Canadian technology writer whose work has been published by NBC News, CBC News, Jacobin, and Tribune, among many others. Paris is also a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland and the host of the critical technology podcast Tech Won’t Save Us.
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Show Notes:
From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Fred Turner
Whole Earth Catalog - Stewart Brand
Jarrett Walker - Elite Project
The Facebook Papers - Francis Haugen
For more on Peter Thiel’s philosophy, read here:
From Zero to One, New Yorker profile
It’s Time to Build - Andreesen Horowitz essay
Social Reconstruction - Peter Norton
An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
Musk’s leaked text messages to Bill Gates
Fort Lauderdale Boring Company Tunnel
The Carrier Theory of Fiction - Ursula LeGuin
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