The prize-winning author of The Faraway Nearby (Granta, 2013), Rebecca Solnit has written a total of 13 non-fiction books so far, dealing with such diverse subjects as art, landscape, mental illness, ecology, politics and gender. She is one of the most eloquent and prescient critics of the impact of the tech industry on the city of San Francisco, which she sees as emblematic of the effect of "a new American economy in which most of us will be poorer, a few will be far richer, and everything will be faster, more homogenous and more controlled or controllable.”
Further reading
Google invades: "Sometimes the Google Bus just seems like one face of Janus-headed capitalism; it contains the people too valuable even to use public transport or drive themselves."
Lobotomised cities: An interview with Rebecca Solnit
Further reading
Google invades: "Sometimes the Google Bus just seems like one face of Janus-headed capitalism; it contains the people too valuable even to use public transport or drive themselves."
Lobotomised cities: An interview with Rebecca Solnit
