Paris Marx

Road to Nowhere

What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elon Musk and the masters of Silicon Valley want us to believe technology can revolutionize our cities and means of transport. Road to Nowhere exposes the paucity of their vision, a distracting fantasy that will only delay the collective solutions already known to be effective. Technological responses to social problems and the people behind these barren ideas must be challenged if our cities and transportation systems are to serve the public good.

Paris Marx offers a plan for an innovative transportation system to meet the needs of the poor, the marginalized, and the vulnerable - as well as those of everybody else. Road to Nowhere argues that rethinking transport could be the first step in a broader reimagining of our social, economic, and political systems, which ought to be structured around the many, not the few.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Durnell MDL / Verso US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 8928
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9781839765896
• ISBN-10: 1839765895
• Artikelnr.: 69823019

Autorenporträt

Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. His work has been published around the world, including in outlets like Time Magazine, NBC News, MIT Technology Review, the Toronto Star, and the New Statesman. It has also been translated into over a dozen languages. Paris earned a Master’s degree in urban geography from McGill University, researching Silicon Valley’s efforts to transform how we move. He speaks internationally about the politics of technology and is based in Newfoundland, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. How the Automobile Disrupted Mobility 9

2. Crafting the Ideology of Tech 36

3. Electric Vehicles and Their Dirty Secret 63

4. Uber's Assault on Cities and Labor 89

5. Self-Driving Cars Did Not Deliver 114

6. Carving New Paths for Cars 140

7. The Coming Fight for the Sidewalk 160

8. The Real Futures That Tech Is Building 180

9. Toward a Better Transport Future 202
Conclusion 228

Rezensionen

The last decade has been a trainwreck for Silicon Valley's dreams of mobility. Paris Marx's invaluable new book explains how and why big tech's utopian transit projects crashed and burned, why these disasters will keep finding funding if they are not opposed, and what the alternative might look like. The path to a better, more equitable future of transit begins with the Road to Nowhere. Brian Merchant, author of The One Device