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January 15, 2018: Jonathan Taplin, author of "Move Fast and Break Things," on Big Tech undermining democracy
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Happy MLK Day. This week on Techtonic, an interview with Jonathan Taplin, author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.
But first...
CES had a blackout. As recent Techtonic guest Steven Levy put it...
Photo from CES below by Taylor Lorenz, shown in her story CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don't Work:
Hawaiians had a scare when someone "pushed the wrong button" and sent a statewide message about a (false) nuclear threat. (Not to be confused with other high-profile nuclear threats from a certain Twitter account.)
Poorly designed tech was the culprit. From the Washington Post: "Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: 'Test missile alert' and 'Missile alert.' He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert."
As always, let's ask... is technology leading to good outcomes? Who benefits from Big Tech? And in the spirit of MLK Day, what does freedom look like in a tech-infused society?
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