Jonathan Weber on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly about How Tech Remade San Francisco

Jonathan Weber on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly about How Tech Remade San Francisco

July 9, 2026 · 1h 9m · Season 2 · Episode 21

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Jonathan Weber discusses the impact of technology on San Francisco over the past three decades.

In 1990, at the dawn of the internet age, reporter Jonathan Weber was tapped as the LA Times’ first Silicon Valley correspondent. Taking up a perch in San Francisco, where he went on to become one of the city’s leading journalists, Jonathan over the next three plus decades had a front row seat to watch how tech innovation – closely followed by growing pyramids of tech money – transformed an economically down-at-the-heels but funky, counter-culturally adventurous, egalitarian and welcoming cit...

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