Silicon Valley always wants us focused on the futures it promises to build. Maybe that’s to distract us from its own sordid past.
I had a fantastic conversation with Malcolm Harris about his new book “Palo Alto” that digs deep into that history, from the long influence of eugenics at Stanford to the profits Silicon Valley made off the United States’ wars. If you listen, I promise you’ll learn something.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12256336-the-untold-history-of-silicon-valley-w-malcolm-harris