Friday, April 21, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Silicon Valley promised us it would develop new technologies that would not only disrupt how we move but solve many of the problems that exist in the transport system. However, after more than a decade of these tales, it’s clearer than ever they were never going to deliver. From Google’s autonomous cars to Elon Musk’s car tunnels, technological fantasies distracted us from the real solutions that would address these problems and allowed us to believe we could ignore the difficult politics of mobility. In this presentation, Paris Marx will assess the past decade of failure and argue that we need a different orientation toward transport if we are to solve key problems like road deaths, traffic, and emissions.
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic, author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. Their work has been published in Time, Wired, NBC News, CBC News, and many others. It has also been translated into more than ten languages. Paris earned a master’s degree in urban geography from McGill University, researching Silicon Valley’s efforts to transform how we move. They’ve also spoken internationally about the future of transportation.
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Hosted by CURA [Center for Urban and Regional Analysis] at The Ohio State University.
