Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

Summary

Critiques tech-industry transportation schemes (ride-hailing, autonomous vehicles, Hyperloop) as serving the wealthy and industry rather than public needs, and argues for public transit and better urban design.

Why it’s useful here

A case study in how tech solutionism displaces public, collective solutions, and an argument that applies to ICT as well. See also Marx’s podcast Tech Won’t Save Us.

Key ideas

• Tech solutions often reproduce existing inequities
• Collective/public provision over individualized products

Related

• tarnoff-2022-internet-for-the-people.md (to add)