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The Problem with Solutions : Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack the Future of Food.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guthman, Julie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural innovations--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Agricultural innovations.
- Food industry and trade--Technological innovations--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Food industry and trade.
- Food--Technological innovations--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Food.
- High technology industries--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- High technology industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finite capitalistic solutions and technological moonshots that do next to nothing to actualize a more just and sustainable system. The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture. As this seductive approach continues to infiltrate universities and academia, Guthman challenges us to reject apolitical and self-gratifying techno-solutions and develop the capacity and willingness to respond to the root causes of these crises. Solutions, she argues, are a product of our current condition, not an answer to it.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the origins of solutions
- Silicon Valley and the urge to make the world a better place
- Agri-food solutions before Silicon Valley
- Silicon Valley bites off agriculture and food
- Alternative protein and the nothing burger of the techno-fix
- Digital technologies and plowing through to the problem
- Silicon Valley thinking comes to the university
- Big ideas and making Silicon Valley-style solution-makers
- Conclusion : the pessimism of solutions and the (cautious) optimism of response.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520402683
- 0520402685
- OCLC:
- 1435752704
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