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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
Description: Paris Marx is one of the sharpest modern writers on Silicon Valley and transit. We have been talking a lot lately about the idea of techno-utopian thinking, but we’re coming to a somewhat surprising conclusion: there isn’t as much of it as there used to be. Our Silicon Valley tech bros have quite a curtailed vision. If they do have a utopia, it is a utopia of sustaining the unsustainable, of paving over the continent to keep everyone in their cars.With Paris we’ll traverse the intellectual history of hippies-turned-arch-capitalists, and focus especially on their...