{"product_id":"9781839765889","title":"Road to Nowhere : What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx","description":"Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will  revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous  vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand  services like Uber and Lyft will eliminate car ownership. Micromobility  devices like electric scooters will be at every corner, and drones will  deliver goods and services. Meanwhile visionaries like Elon Musk promise  to eliminate congestion with tunnels, and Uber help with flying cars.  The future of transport is frictionless, sustainable, and according to  Paris Marx, a threat to our ideas of what a society should be.   Road to Nowhere  exposes the problems with tech's visions of the future and argues that  we cannot allow ourselves to be continually distracted by technological  fantasies that delay the collective solutions we already know are  effective. Technological solutions to social problems and the people who  propose them must be challenged if we are to build cities and  transportation systems which serve the public good.   In  response, Paris Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of  organizing transportation systems which considers the needs of poor,  marginalized, and vulnerable peoples. The book also argues that  rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of  how we organize our social, economic, and political systems to serve the  many, not the few.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308107772277,"sku":"9781839765889","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839765889.jpg?v=1762806549","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781839765889","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}