S2E5 - Peter Norton, The Past and Future of Driving in High-Tech Cities
Densely Speaking
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War on Traffic Congestion
The Futuramas are about selling a vision of the future and bringing along with it a specific set of policy packages or policy proposals. What this reminds me most of is political speech that this is persuasion this is about coalition building. Do you think that that's good framework for thinking about the motivations of the people who are involved in selling these visions of the future? Yeah, the political speech analogy is a good one. In fact, I think it's often very close and has been close especially since. Well really since future Ramah one even a good analogy is when President Eisenhower was leaving office in 1961 he famously gave a farewell address where he cautioned Americans that there had developed a permanent arms establishment
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