okay yes this was written by a wells fargo VP in the 80s but an incredible history of how the LARy / PE went under, the schemes we lost, and how LA chose to embrace the automoble (and rodger rabbit was wrong, it wasn't GE)
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when …
found this a bit mid
3 stars
there wa sa lot of praise for this book and it is very up my alley, but I didn't engage as much as I wanted iwth the through line argument. still a solid read though
hits a lot of the tropes of a novel today, but a fun, novel horror-y look at translation and adulthood, but the characters kinda sucked in a (badly written, not interesting way). flew by though