In this episode Richard Kilgarriff meets the philosopher/mechanic Matthew Crawford, who sees freedom and democracy - reflected in the twin headlights of  travel and technology  - threatened by automation and bureaucracy.

" What we are talking about is remaking the infrastructure, not just of moving about, but of everything that goes on in a city, and handing it over to a cartel of tech firms - It's quite possible they will make the trains run on time but at the cost of our political sovereignty over our collective life together."

Get deeper into Matthew Crawford's OMI with a copy of his book HERE