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Tech Culture
Bookmarks
Rebecca Solnit: Google Invades San Francisco
Rebecca Solnit's LRB diary on Google's presence in San Francisco — arguing that tech wealth and private commuter buses were displacing long-term residents and erasing the city's identity as a refuge for artists and dissidents. The essay that crystallized the tech-gentrification debate.
The Business of Conferences
A critical look at the economics and incentives behind tech conferences — who they actually serve, why speaker lineups get repetitive, and how the conference business model shapes what content gets produced. Written in 2012 when tech conference culture was at its peak.