EPISODE · Apr 29, 2021 · 28 MIN
Seeing Silicon Valley: the Fraying of Life in America
from The Short Fuse Podcast · host Kyle Lee: Producer, "Sonnenaufgang" (from the album Future Rituals)
City Lights Bookstore Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner launch Seeing Silicon Valley, Monday, May 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 ET, through a virtual Zoom platform event hosted by City Lights Bookstore. Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts Event on May 13, 2021 at 7:00 ETMary Beth Meehan, is a distinguished photographer known for her large-scale community-based portraiture. Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University and author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago, 2006) among other books.Read Peter Walsh's review of Seeing Silicon Valley in the Arts Fuse.Nathan Moody composed the music for this episode. The song is "Sonnenaufgang" from the album Future Rituals. Buy the book!
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Perception vs. Reality. For many, the words "Silicon Valley" signify the egalitarian opportunities offered by America's cutting-edge tech industry. Stark reality reveals a much more complicated picture. Growing inequality and an ever rising cost of living are putting pressure on all of the area's workers: at least seven percent of families live in poverty without access to quality education, health care or housing. Fred Turner and Mary Beth Meehan spotlight these realities in their new book, Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America. In a recent conversation with Elizabeth Howard, they talk about the situation they found there, and what it reveals about our country as a whole.
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