• South Africa and Silicon Valley: From Gold Mines to Elon Musk

  • Dec 1 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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South Africa and Silicon Valley: From Gold Mines to Elon Musk

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  • In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr. Tim Karayiannides, a junior research fellow at Emmanuel College, about his recent article about the similarities and connections between South Africa and Silicon Valley. While Elon Musk’s childhood in apartheid in South Africa is sometimes cited as an explanation for his far-right views, there is in fact a much deeper history of connection between Californian and South Africa — from exporting gold mining engineers, to the establishment of technical universities, computer engineers who joined finance, to the histories of eugenics and racial capitalism.


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