Instead of the teleportation and replicating the machines we were promised, tech disruptors

have only managed to deliver new ways of getting mini-cabs and ways of invisibilising labour.

So why has capitalism stopped innovating?

Why are my chances of being impregnated by Elon Musk low but never as close to zero as

I would like?

With me to discuss all this and more is Paris Marx, author of The Road to Nowhere, and

also host of the podcast, Tech Won't Save Us.

Hi Paris, welcome to Downstream.

Thanks so much for having me on the show, I'm really excited.

I'm really sorry that this isn't taking place in the metaverse.

It would have been much better if we were avatars with no legs and, you know, looked

really terrible, but unfortunately they have to see the real us.

To be fair, I don't think you can see our legs in this shot, so.

Fair, we might not have legs.

We booked The Road to Nowhere, focuses on transportation.

Why transportation in particular?

Yeah, it's a good question and I think for me, in part, it was because transportation

was really a route into, you know, having a more critical lens on the tech industry.

Because I was interested in transportation, I was really into climate change and, you know,

like a long time train nerd.

I probably wouldn't go that far.

It would be difficult to be a train nerd being from a place with no train.

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