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History Shows Radical Futures Are Possible w/ Lizzie O'Shea

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Politics of Silicon Valley

The makers of the television show silican valley describe silicun valley as hipe culture run headlong into rampant capitalism. And i think that's a fantastic kind of way of seeing history and the possibility of technology, when approaching it right. When we actually look back at the history of silicum valley, we can see that there was massive public sector investment that went in to build this agglomeration of like, universities and companies. That is so largely excluded from what we understand as the history of technology.

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