Matthew Crawford - Taking Back Control of The Road
Season 1, Episode 29, Aug 16, 2020, 09:39 AM
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For anyone who has ever enjoyed the liberty of the open road, swearing at other drivers and the fun of singing along to the radio in a traffic jam (which is apparently two thirds of us), this episode takes you on a journey in to the mind of an obsessive who loves his subject and cares deeply about the future of culture and society.
In this episode Richard Kilgarriff meets the philosopher/mechanic Matthew Crawford, who sees freedom and democracy - reflected in the twin headlights of travel and technology - threatened by automation and bureaucracy.
" What we are talking about is remaking the infrastructure, not just of moving about, but of everything that goes on in a city, and handing it over to a cartel of tech firms - It's quite possible they will make the trains run on time but at the cost of our political sovereignty over our collective life together."
Get deeper into Matthew Crawford's OMI with a copy of his book HERE
" What we are talking about is remaking the infrastructure, not just of moving about, but of everything that goes on in a city, and handing it over to a cartel of tech firms - It's quite possible they will make the trains run on time but at the cost of our political sovereignty over our collective life together."
Get deeper into Matthew Crawford's OMI with a copy of his book HERE