I believe that despite all valid criticism, the innovation unleashed in Silicon Valley, from Xerox Parc over Apple, Google, Facebook to Tesla has on balance been a strong force for good, and kept the US vibrant while traditional industries and infrastructure mostly declined.
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The focus of reporting is not on what technologies are created (like ways of exchanging ideas, new forms of transport etc) and how we can use them to improve our lifes, but how the engines of creation should be disassembled and repurposed to provide income and status to others.
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Are tech giants of today doing any innovation? Every time I open gmail, I'm faced with their innovation. Also, recall Juicero. My feeling is that the people who hate the tech industry have been stimulated to do so by the products of the tech industry.
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Juicero is one out of thousands of tiny companies with all sorats of ideas that are started and fail. That a thing like juicero exists and fails is not surprising. What is surprising is that it is seen as emblematic for tech.
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At some point it becomes implausible to think that the people making decisions at these companies really believe that they’re helping people.
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Which fraction of people that go to work every day do that to help people vs. just make a living? I don’t think it is fair to hold every company founded SV to such standards, and condemn SV as a whole based on that.
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it is not the innovation part that is the threat, it is who owns the innovation, who finance and makes money of what for what and whom, if you are ok with ad based surveillance capitalism then you could realize that you are on top and part of it
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