RMIStop Pretending There’s A Line Dividing Politics And Tech
Silicon Valley is a location where seemingly difficult troubles are resolved every day, Ezra Klein composes in a brand-new post for The Edge. … while Washington is a location where understandable troubles verify difficult to do anything about. Klein provides a huge gorge dividing the worlds of innovation and politics. This concept is misguided at best, and dangerous at worst.
The future looks great when I check out The Brink, Klein composes, clearly having never ever read The Verge, a website that really effectively covers our more dystopian futures as boldy as the latestthe most recent smartwatch. The watches are smarter, the televisions are curvier, and the containers of ice are icier. However honestly, the future looks less great from where I sit in Washington.
If you can sit anywhere you are in Washington and earnestly believe that technology is just smartwatches and Televisions, you better find a seat better to the window. Because whether its the LRAD noise cannons presently being deployed against protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, or the communications tech companies who are complicit in siphoning off all our data for the NSA, tech and politics cant aid but feed off of each other.
Just as all politics is local, all innovation is political. Whether its the battle over smart guns that can just be fired by their owners, so-called ride-sharing apps like Uber or Lyft, same-day delivery by Amazon or Google, faux-hotels like Airbnb, privatized area travel by business like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, or perhaps just the newestthe most recent smartphone by Apple, technology and politics really couldnt be more linked right here in the early 21st century if we tried.
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