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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-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?
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Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy
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