Paris Marx

Road to Nowhere (eBook, ePUB)

What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services like Uber and Lyft will eliminate car ownership. Micromobility devices like electric scooters will be at every corner, and drones will deliver goods and services. Meanwhile visionaries like Elon Musk promise to eliminate congestion with tunnels, and Uber help with flying cars. The future of transport is frictionless, sustainable, and according to Paris Marx, a threat to our ideas of what a society should be.

Road to Nowhere exposes the problems with tech's visions of the future and argues that we cannot allow ourselves to be continually distracted by technological fantasies that delay the collective solutions we already know are effective. Technological solutions to social problems and the people who propose them must be challenged if we are to build cities and transportation systems which serve the public good.

In response, Paris Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of organizing transportation systems which considers the needs of poor, marginalized, and vulnerable peoples. The book also argues that rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of how we organize our social, economic, and political systems to serve the many, not the few.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839765902
• Artikelnr.: 64152828

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. He 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