Why We Need a War on Cars
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us: Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear discuss how to create more equitable forms of mobility.
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Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear | Tech Won’t Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear to discuss the many ways cars have negatively affected society, how tech companies seek to entrench those problems, and what can really be done to improve mobility in our communities.
Doug Gordon is a TV producer and writer. Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author. They are the co-hosts of The War on Cars and co-authors of Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile.
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(Gary Hershorn / Getty Images)Paris Marx is joined by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear to discuss the many ways cars have negatively affected society, how tech companies seek to entrench those problems, and what can really be done to improve mobility in our communities.
Doug Gordon is a TV producer and writer. Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author. They are the cohosts of The War on Cars and co-authors of Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile.
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Tech Refusal Has a Very Long History w/ Thomas Dekeyser / Tech Won’t Save Us
We are often told that resisting technological development is impossible and ‘progress’ is inevitable, but history says otherwise. Thomas Dekeyser joins Paris Marx to discuss how understanding radical resistances of the past can help us rethink our modern relationship with technology and reshape our vision of the future.
Thomas Dekeyser is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Southampton, author of Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine, and co-creator of the documentary Machines in Flames.
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