{"id":41292,"date":"2020-08-17T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?p=41292"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:17:58","slug":"episode-5-silicon-valley-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/episode-5-silicon-valley-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 5: Silicon Valley and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nonindented\">How did Silicon Valley become such a historically and globally significant hub of technological innovation? What\u2014and who\u2014gets left out of the stories people tell about Silicon Valley? What are the limits of technology, and how can we create more equitable technologies for the future?<\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/silicon-valley-beyond-meredith-broussard-margaret-omara\/id1523686748?i=1000512273348\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><em>Subscribe to <\/em>Public Books 101 <em>on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/public-books-101\/id1523686748\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/52pDLXxtxQOEJTaFPBSi3n?si=sxF5lvz8RUebjh2XzWZMcA\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/shoe-leather\/public-books-101\">Stitcher<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/podcast\/fffa8970-a8e4-0138-e68d-0acc26574db2\">Pocket Casts<\/a> <\/em><em>to listen and to be notified when new episodes are released. Our RSS feed is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public-books-101.castos.com\/feed\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><i>View a list of discussion questions related to this episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/reading-resources-the-internet\/\" rev=\"en_rl_none\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<h4>Our Guests<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Meredith Broussard<\/strong> is a data journalist, an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, and author of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780262537018\"><em>Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World<\/em><\/a> (MIT Press, 2018).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margaret O\u2019Mara<\/strong> is the Howard &amp; Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington, a contributing opinion writer at <em>The New York<\/em> <em>Times<\/em>, and author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780399562204\">The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Penguin Press, 2019), among other works.<\/li>\n<li data-pm-slice=\"2 1 [&quot;ul&quot;,{&quot;style&quot;:null,&quot;backgroundColor&quot;:null,&quot;color&quot;:null,&quot;lineHeight&quot;:null,&quot;listStyleType&quot;:null}]\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\">\n<div><b>Annie Galvin<\/b>, this season&#8217;s host, is the associate editor at\u00a0<i>Public Books<\/i> and a Mellon\/ACLS Public Fellow. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Virginia, and her <a href=\"https:\/\/anniegalvin.com\/\">academic and public writing<\/a> has focused on contemporary global fiction, visual culture, gender and sexuality, and popular music.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Episode notes<\/h4>\n<p class=\"nonindented\">A historian and a data journalist explore the history and influence of Silicon Valley: how it came to be such an ascendent hub of technological innovation, and the limits of what the technologies produced there can do. Meredith and Margaret consider what is distinctly American about the history of Silicon Valley, how popular myths about Silicon Valley square up with reality, and why it\u2019s important for people to recognize that technology cannot solve all human problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><em>View a transcript of the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/public-books-101-silicon-valley-and-beyond-transcript\/\">here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<h4>Mentioned in this episode<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Meredith\u2019s book <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780262537018\"><em>Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Margaret\u2019s book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780399562204\">The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Alvin Toffler\u2019s concept of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780553277371\">future shock<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/\"><em>The Markup<\/em><\/a>, a newsroom founded by Julia Angwin that does algorithmic-accountability reporting\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing\">Reporting\u00a0on the COMPAS algorithm<\/a> by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, and Lauren Kirchner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Meredith\u2019s concept of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/letting-go-of-technochauvinism\/\">technochauvinism<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Interviews with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/donna-riley-on-engineering-ethics-and-social-justice\/\">Donna Riley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/public-thinker-virginia-eubanks-on-digital-surveillance-and-people-power\/\">Virginia Eubanks<\/a> on how engineering education is changing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/07\/29\/apple-google-facebook-amazon-congress-hearing\/\">Capitol Hill hearings<\/a> involving Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (July 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Carson, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780618249060\"><em>Silent Spring<\/em><\/a> (1962)<\/li>\n<li>Ralph Nader,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Unsafe-at-Any-Speed\"><em>Unsafe at Any Speed<\/em><\/a> (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Ellen Pao\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9fc459da-2f7a-11e9-80d2-7b637a9e1ba1\">gender-discrimination lawsuit<\/a> against Kleiner Perkins<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/criticalracedigitalstudies.com\/\">The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies<\/a> at New York University<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shalini Kantayya\u2019s documentary<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedbias.com\/\"><em>Coded Bias<\/em><\/a><\/span> (2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"nonindented\">Further reading and Viewing<\/h4>\n<p class=\"nonindented\">Meredith recommends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedbias.com\/\"><em>Coded Bias<\/em><\/a>, directed by Shalini Kantayya, 7th Empire Media, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charlton McIlwain, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780190863845\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Oxford University Press, 2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safiya Umoja Noble, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9781479837243\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NYU Press, 2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cathy <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O\u2019Neil, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780553418835\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Broadway, 2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For further reading on race and digital technologies, Meredith recommends the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/criticalracedigitalstudies.com\/syllabus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critical Race and Digital Studies Syllabus<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"nonindented\">Margaret recommends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leslie Berlin, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9781451651515\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Troublemakers: Silicon Valley\u2019s Coming of Age<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vannevar Bush, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/od\/lpa\/nsf50\/vbush1945.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science the Endless Frontier: A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (United States Government Printing Office, 1945)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alvin Toffler, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780553277371\"><i>Future Shock<\/i><\/a> (Bantam, 1984)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim-Mai Cutler, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/01\/10\/east-of-palo-altos-eden\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">East of Palo Alto\u2019s Eden: Race and the Formation of Silicon Valley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TechCrunch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, January 10, 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p 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