{"product_id":"road-to-nowhere-by-paris-marx-9781839765896","title":"Road to Nowhere","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionise our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services like Uber and Lyft will eliminate car ownership. Micromobility devices like electric scooters will be at every corner, and drones will deliver goods and services. Meanwhile, visionaries like Elon Musk promise to eliminate congestion with tunnels, and Uber aims to help with flying cars. The future of transport is frictionless, sustainable, and, according to Paris Marx, a threat to our ideas of what a society should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoad to Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the problems with tech’s visions of the future and argues that we cannot allow ourselves to be continually distracted by technological fantasies that delay the collective solutions we already know are effective. Technological solutions to social problems and the people who propose them must be challenged if we are to build cities and transportation systems which serve the public good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn response, Paris Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of organising transportation systems which considers the needs of poor, marginalised, and vulnerable peoples. The book also argues that rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of how we organise our social, economic, and political systems to serve the many, not the few.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362973204716,"sku":"9781839765896","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/557993482843.jpg?v=1772908268","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/road-to-nowhere-by-paris-marx-9781839765896","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}