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A review by gingerreader99
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx
5.0
Fitting that my 60th book this year would also be the book I was perhaps most excited to read.
Paris does a fantastic job of visualizing for the reader how our cities have been controlled and built to serve capital over people. In the 20th century the automobile and now, the tech industry. While being relatively short Paris moves through several Key chapters that outline how Tech and Transportation have changed and affected us over the last 100 years. They cap off with an optimistic chapter that highlights what we can do to improve and cities/nations that are already way ahead of us here in North America.
As a Canadian who is deeply interested in improving transit, cares about the environment, is skeptical and hopes to see the end of capitalism in my lifetime; books like this excite me , but also sadden and anger me. How have we let the automobile and tech control so much of our society and lives? How are people ok with it? If only they knew!
Paris does a fantastic job of visualizing for the reader how our cities have been controlled and built to serve capital over people. In the 20th century the automobile and now, the tech industry. While being relatively short Paris moves through several Key chapters that outline how Tech and Transportation have changed and affected us over the last 100 years. They cap off with an optimistic chapter that highlights what we can do to improve and cities/nations that are already way ahead of us here in North America.
As a Canadian who is deeply interested in improving transit, cares about the environment, is skeptical and hopes to see the end of capitalism in my lifetime; books like this excite me , but also sadden and anger me. How have we let the automobile and tech control so much of our society and lives? How are people ok with it? If only they knew!