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It’s one of the few things that the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber and tech billionaire Peter Thiel agreed on: the sci-fi future we were promised has not materialised. Where are the flying cars? Where are the teleportation machines? And why, instead, do we just have 15 different ride-hailing apps to choose from?

In this episode of Downstream, Ash Sarkar sits down with technology writer Paris Marx, author of The Road to Nowhere, to talk about the future we were promised and the Silicon Valley fraudsters who stole it from us.

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

Downstream: Silicon Valley Fraudsters Are Lying To Us w/ Paris Marx

Jonathan's house was one of those raided over the last few days where luxury cars were taken and they were in search of fire arms and explosives.

Liveline | Jonathan Dowdall

Michael Portillo discovers the origins of modern-day policing in the forgotten police strikes of 1918-19. Published on December 9, 2011.

TWFTR: The Police Strike

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