Deceptions of Innovations Investigating the Claims of Big Tech

The grand premise of innovation is that everyone benefits from it: technology not only yields great opportunity; it constructs great equality. The image of innovation is a redemptive one—but for whom? 15 years ago, then-senator, Barack Obama, addressed a group of young Americans being awarded for outstanding achievement by the Rockford Register Star. He said: And so you need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who’s always thinking on the cutting edge, who’s wondering how to crea
 

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