Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today’s myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system th...
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants
Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention a...
In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup...
By Roberto J. González , author of War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future
The time is a year after tomorrow.
The place is the United States of America.
Turmoil has steadily enveloped the country following contested midterm elections...
Excerpted from American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De Wolk
The origins of the Stanford campus and the Silicon Valley it has incubated, borne, and sustained could not have had a more unlikely birthplace: a frontier bar called the Bull’s Head tave...
Ben Wurgaft has spent the last five years studying the phenomenon of lab grown meat. In Meat Planet, Wurgaft traces the history of lab meats, beginning in 2013 in the Netherlands and continuing through the present day in Silicon Valley outside of San Francisco, CA. Neither for or agai...