375: Tech Facts and Fallacies

20/05/2024 58 min Episodio 375
375: Tech Facts and Fallacies

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Robert Atkinson is president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. He joins the show to discuss his new book, Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy, co-authored with David Moschella.Topics include:Tech panic: speeding-uppers vs. slowing-downersTech and privacy: try living in an analogue village!The wicked problem of content moderationIs tech progress bad for the middle class?Is tech driving market concentration?“Industrial planning”: dirty words?Links:Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy