The Road to Nowhere w/ Paris Marx

Show Summary:

Why do Silicon Valley’s promises about the future of transportation never seem to work out? Paris Marx, author of The Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us dives into the reality underpinning the promises made by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. Why can’t electric vehicles address the problems created by the automobile industry?

To push back against Silicon Valley’s promises, Marx helps us imagine a more accessible and equitable transportation future.

About Paris Marx:
Paris Marx is a Canadian technology writer whose work has been published by NBC News, CBC News, Jacobin, and Tribune, among many others. Paris is also a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland and the host of the critical technology podcast Tech Won’t Save Us.

Follow Paris Marx:
Twitter | Tech Won't Save Us

Show Notes and Resources:
From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Fred Turner
Whole Earth Catalog - Stewart Brand
Jarrett Walker - Elite Project
The Facebook Papers - Francis Haugen
For more on Peter Thiel’s philosophy, read here:
From Zero to One, New Yorker profile
Techlash
It’s Time to Build - Andreesen Horowitz essay
Uber Files
Social Reconstruction - Peter Norton
An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Musk’s leaked text messages to Bill Gates
The Bird App
Fort Lauderdale Boring Company Tunnel
The Carrier Theory of Fiction - Ursula LeGuin

Credits
Hosted by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine
Audio edited and mixed by Josh Chapdelaine
Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void, LLC.