BONUS: Tech Won't Save Transportation with Paris Marx (Patreon)

Hey Patreon supporters!

To close out July, enjoy this ad-free bonus episode. It's an interview with author Paris Marx about their new book, Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. We think it's right up our listeners' alley and hope you read the book and share it with your friends. It's a well researched and accessible look at North America's dysfunctional relationship with the car and offers a nice counterbalance to the near-weekly claims that underground tunnels or flying cars are the answers to our transportation woes.

August will be a little slower for us. We will still have one new bonus episode just for you all, but we won't have a new general-release episode in the main feed until September. Taking a short break from regular production will help us recharge our batteries and give us a head start on some big episodes we're preparing for the fall. We have some that we know you are going to love.

Thanks for your ongoing support!

All the best,

Doug, Aaron and Sarah

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BONUS: Tech Won't Save Transportation with Paris Marx

In a new book, Paris Marx argues that Silicon Valley’s vision of our transportation future – from autonomous vehicles to flying cars – is a threat to basic notions of community and conviviality. Weaving connections between the early history of the automobile and the development of the personal computer in the 1970s and 1980s, Marx examines how the individualized view of transportation merged with the mythos of Silicon Valley to create a world that’s easily distracted by promises that this one cool innovation will finally solve traffic congestion. Paris Marx, the host of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, joins The War on Cars to discuss their new book.

LINKS:

Buy Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation at our official page at Bookshop.org.

Read The Social Ideology of The Motorcar by André Gorz, written in 1973.

Listen to Tech Won’t Save Us wherever you get your podcasts.

Learn more about Paris Marx.

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