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🗓️ 2 April 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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How are the ethics, philosophy and lifestyles of the internet pioneers determining the way we all live? Do we have any choice but to live the way they live, or rage against what? The machine? David Baker travels to Silicon Valley to find out what shapes those who are shaping the way we live.
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0:09.0 | Service.com slash podcasts. the city's famous cable cars heading down towards Union Square. Since 1849, when huge |
0:26.6 | amounts of gold were discovered in the hills to the north of here, people have been coming |
0:31.2 | to this spectacular city to make their fortunes and the world a better place. |
0:37.0 | This is where feminism and gay rights really got going, |
0:40.0 | where hippies set up communes to create a new utopia and where singers like |
0:45.8 | Scott Mackenzie preached a message of goodwill to everyone. |
0:51.4 | If you're going to St. But now San Francisco is home to a different kind of gold rush. |
1:00.0 | Just an hour's drive south of here is Silicon Valley, home to some of the most successful |
1:06.1 | companies on Earth. |
1:09.9 | The area has more millionaires than pretty much anywhere else on the planet. |
1:14.7 | And like the hippies, these high-tech pioneers also want to make the world a better place. |
1:21.8 | But what is their vision for the world? |
1:25.0 | I'm David Baker and along with producer Peter Snowden, |
1:30.0 | as part of the World Services Global Identity Season, I'm investigating how Silicon Valley's |
1:35.0 | values could be changing all our lives. |
1:39.2 | Welcome to default world. |
1:55.2 | Silicon Valley is an extraordinary place, a global powerhouse that has given birth to a new industrial revolution. The people who work there are hugely entrepreneurial. They have an unbridled faith in the power of technology |
2:01.0 | to solve the problems we face today. And they have an almost utopian |
2:05.0 | mission to make the world a better place and although they might not put it this |
2:09.5 | way to make us more like them. So where do these values come from? |
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