Tech Won't Save Us - Part 1

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Margaret Hoover is the author of a fantastic book on silikan valley called the code. She takes us back almost a century, to where many narratives often start when it comes to siliqum valley and the highte dustry that was kind of formed there. Hoover: Can you give us kind of an idea of what is happening around that time period, and what the role of this kind of investment in the bay area does to the industries that are going on there? And i guess just generally like what happened around that time.

Paris Marx is joined by Margaret O’Mara to discuss how the state and military have been at the center of the US tech industry since the very beginning, but how it was written out of the popular narrative during the neoliberal turn in the 1980s.

Margaret O’Mara is the author of “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America” and a professor at the University of Washington. Follow Margaret on Twitter as @margaretomara.

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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