James Wilt

James Wilt is a Canadian journalist and nonfiction writer whose work examines infrastructure, labor, climate, and corporate power. Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? challenges the idea that electric, autonomous, and app-based private vehicles can by themselves solve congestion, inequality, or environmental damage. Its full subtitle, Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk, signals a broader argument about who controls transportation systems and whose needs those systems serve. Between the Lines published the book in 2020 after Wilt developed earlier reporting into a sustained study of public transit. He draws on interviews and examples from several cities to compare market-led technological promises with democratic investment in buses, rail, and accessible mobility. His journalism appears in The Globe and Mail, CBC, The Walrus, and The Narwhal. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?, that background keeps the analysis grounded in institutions and everyday movement rather than treating transportation as a contest between futuristic products.