In conversation with Wendy Liu

In conversation with Wendy Liu How can technology become a tool of emancipation rather than capitalist extraction? Few are better positioned to dwell on this question than Wendy Liu, a tech commentator, software engineer and former start-up founder who left the tech industry to pursue a master’s degree in inequality at the London School of Economics. Since then, she has become a fervent critic of the tech industry and the growth-at-all-costs capitalism that incubated it. Liu joins Guy Mackinnon-Little to discuss her debut book Abolish Silicon Valley (2020), recently published by Repeater Books, which recounts Liu’s first-hand experience of the industry and sets out an alternative vision for how we can liberate technology from capitalism.