"The defining political question of the 20th century was: “What should be governed by the state, and what should be governed by the market?”
The defining political question of the first half of the 21st century is: “How much of our lives should be governed by technology, and under what terms?”
«Most of us think of a #Luddite as someone who is anti-technology or fearful of it, but as LA Times tech columnist Brian Merchant points out in his new book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the #Rebellion Against #BigTech, they were #technologists themselves who simply questioned the ways it was being used against them.»
The #UnitedNations stands at the forefront of promoting a more sustainable and inclusive future.
In line with this commitment, we co-created a playbook for #technologists at the UN and beyond that will help identify strategies to be more inclusive, aware of bias, and to mitigate negative unintended consequences.
If you've followed my work for a long time, you've watched me transition from a "#linkblogger" who posts 5-15 short hits every day to an "essay-#blogger" who posts 5-7 long articles/week. I'm loving the new mode of working, but returning to linkblogging is also intensely, unexpectedly gratifying:
Or maybe that's too harsh. After all, #TechPolicy is a game that everyone can play - and more importantly, it's a game everyone should play. The contours of #TechRegulation and implementation touch rub up against nearly every aspect of our lives, and part of the reason it's such a mess is that the field has been gatekept to shit, turned into a three-way fight between #technologists, #PolicyWonks and #economists.