375: Tech Facts and Fallacies
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-downers - Tech and privacy: try living in an analogue village! - The wicked problem of content moderation - Is 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 (https://tinyurl.com/p93fypz5)