Taking a Tire Iron to Techie Triumphalism
A new book by Kentaro Toyama, a computer scientist, criticizes the efforts by technology entrepreneurs to effect social change.
Hasnain says:
"There are various explanations for the technology world’s contempt for existing human structures. It’s a world full of trained engineers — and many college dropouts — who cannot be expected to grasp human dynamics any more than political scientists understand Java code. Many brilliant technology leaders have stories of bullying and isolation in their youths that would leave anyone with abiding skepticism of human groups, institutions, cultures. If family dinners and school lunches were painful for you, “disrupting” eating with a venture-capital-backed protein drink like Soylent can seem like liberation."
Well put
Posted on 2015-06-10T04:00:30+0000