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The Untold History of Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Evolution of Humanity: A Novel by David Star Jordan

Hoover is a character that I was surprised to see come up in the book. But there's a piece of this that I do want to return to as we, you know, before we move away from this early period at Stanford. One of the original focuses is something called bio-nomics, which has all these assumptions about evolution and evolution's direction - eugenic or not. Like competition and hierarchy specifically are the root of existence of all things. It's still the ideology of a bunch of Silicon Valley fundamentally.

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