A look at historian Margaret O'Mara's new book The Code, which traces how our uneasy present deviated from the rosy future the tech industry promised
and the spaces that have nurtured it, like Silicon Valley—is testament to the shifting politics of our time. Inchoate and uncertain though this discomfort may be, it is an expression of desire for a new order.” https://newrepublic.com/... Laura Marsh / @lmlauramarsh : Rather than address the myriad crises that followed in the wake of deindustrialization, a generation of politicians turned to the shiny ideal of tech. Kim Phillips-Fein on @margaretomara's “The Code”: https://newrepublic.com/...
At the birth of Silicon Valley, the Cold War infused the study of science with the political mystique of countering tyranny through new machines. https://newrepublic.com/...
“These magical machines were supposed to provide a solution to the economic and political problems of the late twentieth century, a way to transcend and break free of the confining aspects of postwar capitalism.” #OldWineIntoNewWineSkins https://newrepublic.com/...
“This deepening unease about technology—and the spaces that have nurtured it, like Silicon Valley—is testament to the shifting politics of our time. Inchoate and uncertain though this discomfort may be, it is an expression of desire for a new order.” https://newrepublic.com/...
Rather than address the myriad crises that followed in the wake of deindustrialization, a generation of politicians turned to the shiny ideal of tech. Kim Phillips-Fein on @margaretomara's “The Code”: https://newrepublic.com/...