It was a little more than a decade ago that Google started its Bay Area bus service to shuttle employees back and forth to work. Other big tech firms, including Facebook and Apple, followed suit, creating a comfortable, clean, efficient, private mass-transit system for what Marc Andreessen would later call “the reality privileged.” Today’s Sunday Rerun is a post I wrote in early 2014 about the Google bus as vehicle and symbol.
Future bus station at Mars Base Alpha (SpaceX rendering).
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Published on April 20, 2025 03:01