Computer Says Maybe

Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx


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What’s the deal with Silicon Valley selling imagined futures and never delivering on them. What are the consequences of an industry all-in on AI? What if we thought more deeply than just ‘more compute’?

More like this: Big Dirty Data Centres with Boxi Wu and Jenna Ruddock

This week, Paris Marx (host of Tech Won’t Save Us) joined Alix to chat about his recent work on hyperscale data centres, and his upcoming book on the subject

We discuss everything from the US shooting itself in the foot with it’s lack of meaningful industrial policy and how decades of lackluster political vision from governments created a vacuum that has now been filled with Silicon Valley's garbage ideas. And of course, how the US’s outsourcing of manufacturing to China has catalysed China’s domestic technological progress.

Further reading & resources:

  • Buy Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx
  • Data Vampires — limited series on data centres by Tech Won’t Save Us
  • Apple in China by Patrick McGee

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