Are We Getting Off the Road to Nowhere?

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I think we need the media to be a bit more sceptical of what they're presenting to us from these companies, instead of just repeating what they tell us and accepting that is as fact. And then i think the other part of that is on the side of regulators to really be stepping in much early to assess these claims that the companies are making. I'd say it's kind of late, like it should have happened much earlier. The book does an admirable job of painting a total picture of how all this faith in technology is misplaced,. but also how we change these broader structures to create a better world too.

In a special episode to celebrate the release of host Paris Marx’s new book Road to Nowhere, Brian Merchant takes over as guest host to interview Paris about the book, the tech industry’s visions for transportation, and why they don’t solve our mobility challenges.

Paris is the host of Tech Won’t Save Us and the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. Brian Merchant is a tech journalist, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and co-editor of Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn. Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

Road to Nowhere is available anywhere you buy books, but Verso has it discounted until July 8 as part of its Summer Reads sale.
An excerpt of Road to Nowhere about the dystopian future the tech industry is creating was recently published in Wired.
Paris recently spoke to StreetsBlog USA about the problem with Apple CarPlay.

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