As we continue our look at Big Tech and the internet, we’re joined by author Malcolm Harris. He has just published a fascinating new book called Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. It’s a history of Silicon Valley and so much more. Malcolm Harris grew up in Palo Alto. As the Los Angeles Times put it, quote, “He also had the good luck to make it out alive. In the years Harris attended Palo Alto High, students killed themselves at a rate between four and five times the national average, walking to their deaths on the train tracks that Leland Stanford built to escape the labor unrest of San Francisco more than 100 years earlier.” Malcolm Harris joins us now from Washington, D.C.
Malcolm, it’s great to have you with us. Congratulations on your book. You just heard our first segment, where we looked at the Supreme Court cases last week that could redefine what these Big Tech companies can do. Can you put this all in a historical context for us? Because you’re not just talking about the internet, you’re looking at
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