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Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, Ai, and Today's Innovation Economy (2

Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, Ai, and Today's Innovation Economy (2024)

By Robert D Atkinson and David Moschella

Technologies and tech companies are routinely accused of creating many societal problems. This book exposes these charges as mostly myths, falsehoods, and exaggerations. Technology Fears and Scapegoats debunks 40 widespread myths about Big Tech, Big Data, AI, privacy, trust, polarization, automation, and similar fears, while exposing the scapegoating behind these complaints.

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Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan.
Publish Date: 05/07/2024
Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9783031523489
ISBN-10: 3031523482
Language: English

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Technologies and tech companies are routinely accused of creating many societal problems. This book exposes these charges as mostly myths, falsehoods, and exaggerations.

Technology Fears and Scapegoats debunks 40 widespread myths about Big Tech, Big Data, AI, privacy, trust, polarization, automation, and similar fears, while exposing the scapegoating behind these complaints. The result is a balanced and positive view of the societal impact of technology thus far.

The book takes readers through the steps and mindset necessary to restore the West's belief in technological progress. Each individual chapter provides a cogent and often controversial rebuttal to a common tech accusation. The resulting text will inspire conversations among tech insiders, policymakers, and the general public alike.

About the Authors

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph. D. , is president of The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, D. C. -based non-profit think tank with a pro-innovation, pro-productivity, and digital economy public policy agenda.

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David Moschella is a nonresident senior fellow at ITIF, in charge of its "Defending Digital" project. For more than a decade, Moschella was Head of Worldwide Research for IDC. His previous books include Seeing Digital (DXC Technology, 2018), Customer-Driven IT (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), and Waves of Power (AMACOM, 1997).

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