The Boring Company is a Complete Joke w/ Alissa Walker

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Alissa Walker to discuss how Elon Musk’s Boring Company transportation system has changed over the past few years, what his plans in Las Vegas mean for workers and transit users, and why tech companies are distracting us from a real vision of better cities. Alissa Walker is the urbanism editor at Curbed, co-host of LA Podcast, and a contributor to KCRW’s Greater LA. She recently reported on the latest updates on the Boring Company and its project in Las Vegas, and did...

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0:00.0	He's going to win no matter what. There's no other path here because people who have a certain
0:03.7	amount of money, they're going to buy a Tesla and they're going to become part of this cult
0:08.5	who likes to attack women journalists on Twitter who write about Tesla. Thank you. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us, a podcast that doesn't think many of tech
0:27.9	solutions for transportation are really going to improve our cities for anyone other than
0:32.3	the rich.
0:33.0	I'm your host, Paris Marks, and today I'm speaking with Alyssa Walker.
0:36.6	Alyssa is the urbanism editor at Curbed, co-host of LA podcasts, and today I'm speaking with Alyssa Walker. Alisa is the urbanism editor at
0:38.2	Curbed, co-host of LA podcast and a contributor to KCRW's Greater LA. Today, we talk about Elon Musk's
0:45.3	boring company, how it's developed in recent years, the specific project that the company is working on in
0:51.2	Vegas, and why tech's ideas for transportation are really not enough
0:54.8	to improve our societies and address the needs of the very people who are not served by the system
1:02.0	as it exists today. You can find links to a few of Alyssa's pieces about the boring company
1:07.4	in the show notes. If you like our conversation, please leave a five-star
1:11.0	review on Apple Podcasts and make sure to share it with any friends or colleagues who you think
1:15.1	would be interested in the conversation. And if you want to support the work that I put into
1:19.5	the show, you can go to patreon.com slash tech won't save us and become a supporter. Thanks so much
1:24.4	and enjoy the episode. Alyssa, welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. Thank you so much for
1:29.0	having me. I've been following your reporting on Curb for quite a long time. And I particularly like
1:34.7	you know, you're writing on the boring company and your perspective on the boring company
1:38.4	because it provides this critical analysis of what Elon Musk is trying to do with this project that is not seen
1:45.9	in a lot of mainstream publications, right? And it's really important thing for us to be focusing on,
1:51.4	which is why I wanted to talk to you today. Thanks so much. That's a very, it's a good compliment.
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